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Random question... is it just me or have rental properties gotten crazy with their requirements lately? I have decent credit and am a good person, but I feel like we're going to get rejected because my husband is a smoker who is trying to quit. They don't want you to smoke within 25 feet of the rental property or the neighbor's property.
I am going to get on a capitalist soapbox rant because I see so much of this happening in multiple aspects of our lives. Over the past ten/fifteen years I have watched private equity firms move in to invest in healthcare systems and watched them suck the humanity out of providing care to patients in need. Everything becomes about extracting as much predictable profit as possible. About seven or eight years ago I saw the same thing happen in the housing market.. Private equity firms started buying up single family homes and then progressively started increasing rent and requirements. They set the "market rate" because they have the volumes to do so and there's little to no consumer protections.

You are not crazy

We are living in late stage capitalism
 
I am going to get on a capitalist soapbox rant because I see so much of this happening in multiple aspects of our lives. Over the past ten/fifteen years I have watched private equity firms move in to invest in healthcare systems and watched them suck the humanity out of providing care to patients in need. Everything becomes about extracting as much predictable profit as possible. About seven or eight years ago I saw the same thing happen in the housing market.. Private equity firms started buying up single family homes and then progressively started increasing rent and requirements. They set the "market rate" because they have the volumes to do so and there's little to no consumer protections.

You are not crazy

We are living in late stage capitalism
And the government won't act because both parties are getting so much money in donations. There isn't a good faith actor in any of this.

I have problems with organized religion, but the hospital systems were so much more human when the nuns ran them.
 
And the government won't act because both parties are getting so much money in donations. There isn't a good faith actor in any of this.

I have problems with organized religion, but the hospital systems were so much more human when the nuns ran them.
100%

I seriously considered joining the convent in my earlier years because I was called to that life of service.
 
What are your thoughts on Fun…*checks notes*…wholes?

https://www.funwhole.com/products/apartment-2507pcs
Many a discussion has been had on brick blogs about "Fun Whole". Terrible, terrible name. Obviously cooked up by a non-native English speaker, or just a poor use of Google translate.

However, the reviews are actually pretty good. The bricks are high quality, and while the foundations can be tricky, they sets are well done. I don't own any, but there are a few that I've got my eye on & wouldn't mind adding g to my collection
 
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