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It can be exploitative, but it's not automatically so. Both parties benefit from the agreement in different ways.
Last I looked into the difference, (in my area) if you planned to stay longer than three years, owning was the cheaper option. Less than that you'd be better off renting. Assuming no big house repairs of course, and no crazy house value changes.
Cheaper isn't always the goal. Home ownership comes with a lot of stress and time investment that you don't have with renting.
I don't get how this above conversation isn't just /thread.
7 people who downvoted, care to explain? Genuinely curious what your take is.
Of course it's exploitative, that isn't a question. The entire purpose of rent is to exploit. The down voters are people who recognize that it's complete nonsense to suggest housing rental could ever not be exploitative.
The downvoters are probably people who have never owned a home and don't realize that it has its own set of issues that renting doesn't.
If it really sucked so much to own a home, the upper class wouldn't be buying as many of the fucking things as they could.
Owning a home is 100% upside 0% downside. You have your name on it and someone else pays for it. You use their money to pay other people to maintain it, skim the rest and fuck off to the beach. If you fail at this you wouldn't last an hour at a real job.
Sounds like you've never dealt with home ownership. It's definitely not 100% upsides.
Renting you don't have to keep $30k on hand in case you need to replace your roof or HVAC. Renting you're not saddled with an asset that you have to unload before you can relocate.
And the wealthy aren't buying as much residential property as they can because they find home ownership preferable to renting.
Oh woe is me, I could literally fill a swimming pool with other people's money, please feel sorry for me
I don't mean to be shocking, but this feels very much like "she orgasmed when I molested her".
The other option is homelessness. You rent at the barrel of a gun. How could you possibly call that consent?