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Your Face · 2018-05-15 21:52:16

I travel a lot with work. Well now I'm moving house because I will be based in my current office/site for at least a year. I'm looking around and rents are insane. Not just a bit expensive but egregiously extortionate. There are complete sweatboxes being called luxury apartments. Rent pressure zones can be circumvented.…

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#362 27-08-2018 10:26PM

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Andrew Beef wrote: »

Shouldn’t the tax system be used to motivate landlords to give more concessions to tenants?

I wouldn’t increase the rent at all for (say) 10 years if I got a lower tax rate for example. Maybe a 10 year lease, no increases, greater certainty for the tenant, etc.

You are still depending on the tenant to pay the rent and take care of the property mand not disappear when it suits him. It is all one-sided. If you could get rid of a destructive or non-paying tenant promptly it would be worth more than any tax incentive.

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