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    -51 year ago

    That’s simply not how this works, if you don’t pay your rent, you get evicted. And yes, a landlord likely would evict an entire building full of troublemakers.

    The idea is, if you don’t like the cost of something, you go somewhere else. Why would rent be any different?

    • Flying Squid
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      101 year ago

      And yes, a landlord likely would evict an entire building full of troublemakers.

      Do you have an example of a landlord evicting every tenant of a large apartment building because they banded together to oppose a rent increase?

      The idea is, if you don’t like the cost of something, you go somewhere else.

      Have you not been paying attention? There is nowhere else. Rent is ridiculously high everywhere. You free marketers are not grounded in reality.

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        01 year ago

        Do you have an example of a landlord evicting every tenant of a large apartment building because they banded together to oppose a rent increase?

        Has anyone tried this before? this entire premise just isn’t realistic, the only leverage you have over a landlord, besides knowing the rules, is taking your business elsewhere, AKA a boycott.

        • Flying Squid
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          41 year ago

          This is the whole point of unionizing the building. So yes it is realistic and yes it does give you leverage. Do you really think they would evict 50 apartments simultaneously?

            • Flying Squid
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              31 year ago

              Why would they risk losing all of that income when they would lose a lot less if they just negotiated with the tenants? Sounds like they’re really bad at business.

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                11 year ago

                Because they could replace them with tenants who will not only pay the new rate, but not be a pain in the ass.

                Your hypothetical tenants are not negotiating from a position of strength at all, they can be easily replaced.

                • Flying Squid
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                  11 year ago

                  They could reach full capacity before they lost enough money to make it not worth it? Where would all of these people willing to pay their higher rates come from?

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                    01 year ago

                    Have you not been paying attention? There is nowhere else. Rent is ridiculously high everywhere.

                    According to you, there is a shortage of rental properties, and no shortage of tenants.