• ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    I bought it to live in it when I lived in France for a few years in the late 90’s. Then I kept it as an investment, and I put it up for rent to offset the maintenance costs and the taxes.

    I didn’t buy it to profit richly from my tenants, or make a living out of renting properties, if that’s what you’re driving at.

    And you’re right, I want out and I’m selling it. And you know who will buy it? Someone who wants to live in it. It’s never going to be someone who wants to put it up for rent, unless they’ve gone funny in the head.

    Meaning it’s gonna be one less property that an idiot like me will put on the renting market. If the French government wanted to promote cheap rents, they’re getting the exact opposite effect with their crazy anti-landlord laws: affordable places for rent are getting rarer and rarer because ordinary landlords like me looking to have a property to pass on to their children just don’t want to deal with this shit.

    • zoe@jlai.luOP
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      1 year ago

      to be honest like the way the french government is trying to violate other’s peoeple privacy, also sharing info about bad tenants- and bad landlors too- is of big importance for both sides, and in some regards certain countries are already ahead in this context by using metrics among them a social score. Using an app like Airbnb to find a (well reviewed) tenant and then charge him/her regular rent could have helped prevent this but i am no landlord, so …