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  • Good read, but keep in mind - this article is from 2021, which is when PIS was still in power - it is an extremely corrupted, xenophobic and religiously zaelous party that strived to implement the Hungarian scenario in Poland.

    State-driven prosecutions of these historian were not continued under the new government, so please edit your comment to reflect that, unless you wanr to spread misinformation yourself.

  • I’m sorry, but it’s unfortunately not just some primitive racism, their culture and modern way of life is not very compatible with the rest of the modern society

    I don’t want to spread harmful stereotypes, but the most dangerous neighborhoods in Romania and Slovakia are the Roma enclaves. Also you can see them everywhere in European city squares using children to scam people. The infamous “Free” Rose Scam.

  • I assure you the math has been done

    It’'s really not all about raw profit, it’s also about risk assessment. There is always a risk of significant damage to the property which would cost more to repair than it brought from rent. There’s also a risk of not being able to evict the non-paying tenant, which basically locks you out of your property for years.

    We all hate landlords, I hate them with burning passion, but we gotta be honest here - the tenant is a hardcore-tier client type.

  • It really depends on situation.

    Rentiers that possess tens, hundreds or even thousands of estate absolutely do rent some of them, but they still keep some (if not most) of them empty. By keeping the market unsaturated, they keep their rent high. If they just let out all their estates, prices would go lower due to lesser demand. They are not penalized for abusing the market, instead they are actually being rewarded by the fact that their unrented properties’ value is constantly increasing due to appreciation.

    There are also minor landlords that have some additional rentable estate, but they often choose not to be bothered, and they just sit on it for years until their offspring grows up and decide to live there. Or they just sell it in the meantime and get lots of profit for nothing.

    • inflating prices by limiting the supply, you don’t even need to rent your real estate, you get insane gains just via appreciation
    • radically pro-tenant laws are primarily rewarding unlawful tenats by making them impossible to evict even for extreme negligence, which discourages landlords from offering their unused properties
    • no laws to force landlords to rent their unused properties or discourage from purchasing additional estate just to hold them as assets