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tehstone  ·  3356 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: September 16, 2015

    I'm the dick forcing a family out of their home so I can pursue my greedy capitalist wealth fantasies.

This seems to be quite a problem around Seattle. People hear about how rents are going up so much and get delusions of grandeur. "I'll become a real estate baron!" When in reality all they have is a 500sqf 1/1 they rent out. Then you start getting rents going up way beyond cost of living, totaling far more than whatever mortgage payment they may have just "because they can" and the broke ass college student gets fucked.