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I don't generally agree, i think they should be able to buy them as well. We can't limit how many homes people own, how do you rent then? What do we classify as "too much" house ownership? 10?100?1000?


A mom and pop landlord with 5 rentals doesn't have pricing power. A firm owning 1 in 5 homes in a neighborhood does. That's why antitrust thresholds exist in other industries.


That's fair, we aren't anywhere close to that though right? From research I saw, investors usually push prices down.

Tangent but corporate landlords in my experience are so much better than mom and pops.


We absolutely CAN limit how many homes people are allowed to own. Whether or not we SHOULD is the argument here.




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