• bstix@feddit.dk
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    11 hours ago

    It’s because your landlord never paid for it. The bank did. You’re paying the interest on his loan.

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      11 hours ago

      They mean if they sold it now they’d have 50 years of rent now, instead of waiting 50 years to accumulate that amount. All that money now is worth more then getting it later.

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        8 hours ago

        I know what they meant.

        Renting out properties is not about making tenants pay the same amount as the property is worth over any period of time.

        It’s about having someone else cover the cost of borrowing the money while the property increases in value by itself until they decide to cash in.