Well I can tell you with 100% certainty that the hud recipients have raised the rent at my apartment. Not that I blame them.

I collected the rent from folks for a few years and it was when the first person with hud showed up that the landlord raised the rent by 25% because that’s what hud was willing to pay.

Buddy I tell ya hwhat. Yer gonna be so happy because we are gonna do bigly interesting things.

We’re gonna build a big arena just for Trump rallies. We’re gonna find a princess to marry Prince Barron, who by the way is young enough that we’ll have the longest stable gubment in American history. King for 70 years bud.

Joel Olsteen is gon’ build big ol churches in ever state. We ain’t worried about prayer in school no more. We’re bringing school to prayer. Christian academy gonna be the normal school. Ever kid in American is gonna learn about being good with Ace Virtueson, Racer and the gang. They’ll learn that fish are fish because god wanted it that way and how we ain’t monkeys. Real science will git done like how many babies can good girls have.

I’m so tired.

Also this. I doubt he will forget it.

https://youtu.be/ya6-_OA4As0

For fun in case you don’t click. One of the libertarians at the convention said, “I’d rather eat my own foot out of a bear trap.” When asked if she’d support Trump.

Not entirely true everywhere.

If you go into the poorest places in the county you can own apartments and have them paid for in no time. You can charge HUD twice the going rate and make life miserable for everyone by destroying the market in those areas.

Take where I live. The average rent in 2012 for a three bedroom, two bathroom home was 400 bucks. Now 13 years later it is 800-1000. Way higher than inflation.

How did this happen? Well, landlords exploited a program designed to help poor people by overcharging it and causing the rent to go up everywhere. Why rent to steady job Steve when meth head Molly’s check is always there because HUD pays her rent?

I know the three men who bought up all the property in this entire area.

One I know very well, so I’ll focus on what he did.

In 2010 he bought 3 apartment buildings for 115k each. They were all built by the same people in the 50s and are nearly identical with three bedrooms in each unit, but one of those bedrooms (in the downstairs apartments) has no window so can’t be categorized as a bedroom, only a closet.

So HUD pays 800 for the ones downstairs, 1,050 for the ones upstairs.

Each building has 4 apartments.

That’s 6300 a month for the upstairs apartments. 4800 a month for the downstairs.

That’s 133,000 a year for apartments he paid 115k for. The previous landlord only charged 200 a month. He has changed nothing about them. They were only fixed up enough to qualify for hud with the cheapest materials available. Nearly no upkeep. Pay a local drunk to redo the roof every few decades. Bam.

I’ve been living here for 8 years. I have nearly paid for the apartment myself.

How did dude get money? You guessed it. Dad helped him start businesses and everything grew from there. He has always paid his workers minimum wage and recently started selling off his businesses because being a landlord is easy peasy.

In the 8 years I’ve lived here, the only thing he ever had to fix was a leak outside.

Before he took it over, the entire building was on the same water and electric bill. First thing he did was separate all that so people handle their own bills and he gets as much as he can get.

NONE of the original tenants are here now. They all got priced out and replaced with easy money HUD recipients.

I’m the only one left who actually pays my rent in full. I’d say he’d be stoked if I moved out. I would, but I’m just too damn lazy and my upstairs neighbor is amazing. If she ever leaves it might motivate me.

I would like to say that many many outsiders have been buying up property here for the last decade and a half. They’re stopping now they they’ve made it impossible for us natives to buy a home.

This place is so poor that I almost had a house for 5,000 dollars in 2003. You could get homes crazy cheap here back then. That same house recently sold for 130k. It has been remodeled, but that was around 2009.

One county over things are still like that if you’re brave enough to live there. I had a problem once over there and had to call the police around 1 AM. “All of our officers are asleep at the moment, but if it turns out to be a big problem call us back and we’ll wake one up.”

lol

:p If they were the beasts, the “godly” would line up to take the mark.

Dementia or something. Probably wants Mexico and Canada to be states if he can figure out how to deport all the Latinos/as further south.

That’s honestly probably why he isn’t calling for Mexico to be a state. Too many not quite white people.

Man I’m half tempted to make 70 accounts just to upvote you over and over again.

Not really, but damn this needs to be something everyone is thinking about.

This comment is batshit insane. I’m for it.

This should be more common knowledge. Why am I just learning about this?

All the talk about “Putin fighting Nazis”. It would have been nice to be able to say, “actually bruh” for years now.

Thank you for this post. I am so mad at myself for not knowing this already.