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Just to make things easier for people.

The video talks about the glut of micro units having issues selling due to how undesirable they are for people actually living in them and not aligning with a more realistic price.

The numbers on why a lot of people can't hold onto these investments:

Shrinking units, the ones discussed in the video is around ~300sqft:

Substantially less of newer units are owner occupied:

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Landlords aren't real people tbh. Fuck em.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Many of them are shell companies. We need a way to put them in jail.

How about if you own 20% of a company that is convicted of a crime, you do 20% of the time. After all, you got to benefit from 20% of the profits because of crime..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'll settle for fines being substantially bigger than the profit obtained from the crime.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

For hands-off investors, maybe. Directly responsible parties should see jail time though.

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