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The Real Reason Rents Shot Up During the Pandemic
It’s no secret that rent prices ripped higher between 2020 and 2022. Rents on the West Coast were $1,992 in January 2020 at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and peaked out at $2,497 in August 2022, growing 25% in just 30 months. Asking rents grew by a modest 2.5% in February 2020 and then…
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Real Stories Show Why Rent Control Won’t Work in WA
District 2 “Rent control will not allow you to keep up with the market increases that occur with increased taxes, insurance and maintenance. It will create a class system, those who are included in rent control and everyone else. The solution for me will be to sell all residential rentals. The supply will go down…
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Now Hiring! Being a Housing Provider IS a Job
In the Soviet Union, the Communist Party decided your job, your salary, where you could travel, and most other important aspects of your life. Go-getters with ambition had to join the Party. Anyone who disagreed with the system was sent to the gulag. Other “features” of the Soviet Union included: On the flip side, the…
