I'm a landlord. I do my damndest to be a good one. When my tenant has problems and asks if they can be a bit late on the rent, I tell them of course. I answer emails/texts quickly. I take care of any repairs/issues right away. I'm looking at fencing in the yard because I know they'd like it - they have dogs - not because it will increase the property value.
And I don't raise the rent. Could I? Sure! The rental market where I am has less than 1% availability, so I could charge pretty much whatever I want. But my goal isn't to bleed tenants dry, it's to supplement my income to a reasonable degree, and provide someone with a good place to live.
Sure is good we've got Christians to teach us morals, with atheists like me around fucking things up.
OT: Madison "Niedermeyer" Cawthorn's eligibility to run for re-election has been challenged by a group of North Carolina voters, on the grounds that his support of the insurrectionists last January- both on the day and afterwards- disqualifies him from holding office. There's a pdf link to the full document in the article; it's worth a read- articulate, well-reasoned, and well-supported.
Naturally, even though there is precedent for such challenges being made on substantially weaker grounds, I expect this to go nowhere (but will be very pleasantly surprised if it succeeds). Still, it's nice that *somebody's* making an effort to hold the slippery little shit accountable.
Here's the reason why Patheos is now ghost town central
"Bloggers were advised they could stay at Patheos so long as they stop writing negative or critical posts on religion or politics and instead focus on how to live a good life within their own worldview. They left."
Jesus was a couch surfer. He didn't own his own house, he lived with friends or family wherever he travelled. I don't think he would approve of raising people's rent.
"I did not displace the person out of that house if they can no longer afford it. The marketplace did. The economy did. The ratio of the income that they earned to their housing expense displaced them. I didn’t cause any of that."
Christians are so very good at finding reasons they are not responsible for the actions they take.
"I did not not displace the person out of that house if they can no longer afford it. The marketplace did. The economy did. The ratio of that income that they earned to their housing expense displaced them. I didn't cause any of that."
Typical Christian. Point fingers at everyone else and take no responsibility for their own actions. Thus is it ever. Once again we see that "greed is good" is the purview of the religious.
Because Ramsey is not wrong about raising rent not making him a bad Christian, being Christian does not make you a good person. Whether it interferes in being a good person or not is debatable, but it doesn’t lead to being good.
Let’s not forget that the market is artificially inflated because of incredibly bad actors in business, those rich people reading and exercising all the time. And when the rent is brought in line with the market, and all those people have to ditch their homes, the market will be corrected by force and folks like Ramsey will lose their hats. Unfortunately, those who can least afford the correction will be the first and hardest hit.
"Christian Business(wo)man" is a contradiction in terms. Markets don't respond to "Christian" signals, they respond to price signals. Efforts to blame a tenant's poverty on a lack of godliness and to blame "the market" for forcing a rent increase is the typical abdication of individual agency by "Christian" businesspersons who hide behind the market to feed their greed.
Got a spam call earlier. I’ve spent the last two hours calling their number 197 times before they blocked me. Every time they picked up I let them know that since they’d shown zero respect for me, I had no obligation to respect them, and they were reaping what they sewed. I’m home alone all day, on the Do Not Call list, and everyone that calls me from now on is getting the same response. Thanks for letting me vent.
I'm a landlord. I do my damndest to be a good one. When my tenant has problems and asks if they can be a bit late on the rent, I tell them of course. I answer emails/texts quickly. I take care of any repairs/issues right away. I'm looking at fencing in the yard because I know they'd like it - they have dogs - not because it will increase the property value.
And I don't raise the rent. Could I? Sure! The rental market where I am has less than 1% availability, so I could charge pretty much whatever I want. But my goal isn't to bleed tenants dry, it's to supplement my income to a reasonable degree, and provide someone with a good place to live.
Sure is good we've got Christians to teach us morals, with atheists like me around fucking things up.
OT: Madison "Niedermeyer" Cawthorn's eligibility to run for re-election has been challenged by a group of North Carolina voters, on the grounds that his support of the insurrectionists last January- both on the day and afterwards- disqualifies him from holding office. There's a pdf link to the full document in the article; it's worth a read- articulate, well-reasoned, and well-supported.
https://apnews.com/article/north-carolina-elections-madison-cawthorn-57cf6e5bdf41585cc5e068a26568d4e1
Naturally, even though there is precedent for such challenges being made on substantially weaker grounds, I expect this to go nowhere (but will be very pleasantly surprised if it succeeds). Still, it's nice that *somebody's* making an effort to hold the slippery little shit accountable.
Here's the reason why Patheos is now ghost town central
"Bloggers were advised they could stay at Patheos so long as they stop writing negative or critical posts on religion or politics and instead focus on how to live a good life within their own worldview. They left."
https://religionnews.com/2022/01/04/what-happened-to-the-nonbelief-channel-at-patheos/
“Am I going to evict someone in the middle of chemo? No.”
I call BS.
Does making people homeless make a bad christian?
Don't know enough about christianity to say much about that, but it sure as fuck makes you an evil mother-fucker.
Jesus was a couch surfer. He didn't own his own house, he lived with friends or family wherever he travelled. I don't think he would approve of raising people's rent.
"I did not displace the person out of that house if they can no longer afford it. The marketplace did. The economy did. The ratio of the income that they earned to their housing expense displaced them. I didn’t cause any of that."
Christians are so very good at finding reasons they are not responsible for the actions they take.
"I did not not displace the person out of that house if they can no longer afford it. The marketplace did. The economy did. The ratio of that income that they earned to their housing expense displaced them. I didn't cause any of that."
Typical Christian. Point fingers at everyone else and take no responsibility for their own actions. Thus is it ever. Once again we see that "greed is good" is the purview of the religious.
Ramsey is using the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition Tomas a base for his Christian wealth scam.
Because Ramsey is not wrong about raising rent not making him a bad Christian, being Christian does not make you a good person. Whether it interferes in being a good person or not is debatable, but it doesn’t lead to being good.
Let’s not forget that the market is artificially inflated because of incredibly bad actors in business, those rich people reading and exercising all the time. And when the rent is brought in line with the market, and all those people have to ditch their homes, the market will be corrected by force and folks like Ramsey will lose their hats. Unfortunately, those who can least afford the correction will be the first and hardest hit.
Ah ... Seems like there is no hate quite like Christian kindness either then.
Of course it does! His God is Ayn Rand!
OT for us oldies...
Actor Dwayne "Dobie Gillis" Hickman died yesterday from complications due to Parkinson's. He was 87.
"Christian Business(wo)man" is a contradiction in terms. Markets don't respond to "Christian" signals, they respond to price signals. Efforts to blame a tenant's poverty on a lack of godliness and to blame "the market" for forcing a rent increase is the typical abdication of individual agency by "Christian" businesspersons who hide behind the market to feed their greed.
OT - Did gawd really create the universe? Find out in this week's, definitely NSFW, Oglaf.
https://www.oglaf.com/strongly-discouraged/
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Got a spam call earlier. I’ve spent the last two hours calling their number 197 times before they blocked me. Every time they picked up I let them know that since they’d shown zero respect for me, I had no obligation to respect them, and they were reaping what they sewed. I’m home alone all day, on the Do Not Call list, and everyone that calls me from now on is getting the same response. Thanks for letting me vent.