We intentionally made suicide cords all the time at my old job lol

"That sounds like an Atlanta problem" one can only reasonably address this issue locally/regionally. To paint broad strokes with the national average is CRAZY disingenuous given addressing inventory deficiencies isn't like shipping a widget from Omaha to Los Angeles.

Most people need to not worry about the national average because it is skewed (speaking of - what is the actual distribution?) - they need to worry about wherever they actually are.

ETA addressing the last paragraph of your comment: agreed! That is something to be celebrated. Wallowing in doomerism certainly doesn't help anyone but let's also not pretend this isn't a very real problem people face (home unavailability).

I've been making the same point since my first reply to you. My position has never changed, which is a correction to your insinuation that the corporate ownership of single family homes as rental properties isn't ultimately a big deal because it's a small amount overall

Here's what you said:

This is doomerist myth. It's a miniscule fraction, go look up the actual numbers. Landlords selling their properties would be very good for everyone.

It's only a miniscule fraction NATIONALLY. That's why I said what I originally said about Atlanta in my initial reply, where there IS a very real problem of available inventory because 1/9 homes are owned by national corporations. It's not a myth for everyone.

Then you said my data was wrong (for which your own WP article said I was right,) which I already said was explicitly about the metro Atlanta area, not the nation. Then you double and triple downed with a pinch of condescension and dickishness. Then I called you a dumb cunt.

You could've just said "oops my bad, I misread your comment" which you either did or have just been trolling this whole time.

For what it's worth I do agree with you that landlords selling would be good, regardless of the local, regional, or national quantity of single family homes owned by national corporations. That was never in question for me. Just the first part.

"Wow you sound angry" yeah dealing with braindead morons does make me angry, particularly when they argue a point their own fucking article disproves..

I gave you data for the market I was talking about. Your own article gave you data for the market I was talking about. Who did it align with? Yours or mine? I'll give you a hint, not yours. "Stay in school" your dumb ass can't read.

The "thinking for yourself" quip is a mask slipping moment for you. Denying reality must be fun.

That's a bad-faith comparison and shows you are unserious about the very real issue some localities face with investment firms holding "cheap" single family homes as indefinite rental income, or just butthurt my data disproved your application of a BROAD GENERALIZATION to a specific region. Likely the latter.

0.2% nationally != 0.2% locally.

https://news.gsu.edu/2024/02/26/researchers-find-three-companies-own-more-than-19000-rental-houses-in-metro-atlanta/

Link to the research: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/24694452.2023.2278690

Read it for yourself.

Comparing across the nation doesn't really matter in things like real estate where prices, inflow vs outflow of people etc vary wildly, particularly when talking about the actual impact on the average person within the locality.

"Cherry picked by source to increase clicks" what sort of landlord boot licking is this lmao. Amherst Holdings (owns almost 40,000 homes nationally), Pretium Partners (owns around 80,000 homes nationally), and Invitation Homes (also around 80,000 nationally) own through subsidiaries 11% of all single family homes across metro Atlanta for rental purposes.

This isn't opinion or spin, it is fact.

Most of their ownership (9.2% of that 11%) is from houses in the lower half of median home value, effectively ripping those inventories out of the market for first time home buyers and inflating the price of those tiers of homes for first time home buyers.

Maybe you're confused about what "Metro Atlanta" means. It's not just the City of Atlanta. Metro Atlanta is spread across 5 counties, from the heart of downtown to some real yeehaw rural areas of the outer counties.

Idk, something like 12% of all metro Atlanta area homes are leased out by about 3 rental property companies. That's a huge amount.

They will defend Celsius being used for everyday weather reporting with their last breath with their ONLY fallback being "well you're just used to fahrenheit durrrrrrr" as if that logic can't be applied to every unit system on earth.

What's funny is the person who brought up arguments FOR Fahrenheit over Celsius to me that I hadn't considered is actually a Brit. They lived in England and the US and your explanation here is very similar to theirs.

Honestly, temperature (in terms of weather preparedness, not cooking) makes WAY more sense with Fahrenheit. Largely the only temperatures you care about are 0 to 100 and generally you feel a good difference in temp every 10 degrees F.

Almost everything else I prefer metric. But that's one where Celsius is just terrible.

It's as simple as this really. It's included therefore a subscribing company can just not renew a slack, Zoom, or whatever contract and say "hey we saved money"