If our schools and healthcare system looked like Norway's, then we wouldn't have to worry about what style of prison system to put our children into.

Heavenly Hounds or Rover Rehab!

>If I buy a home, and the person I beat out in the market also needed a home, was what I did unethical because I didn’t allow the other person to buy the home at a more affordable price?

If you turn around and rent that home back to them at a profit, yes.

If they charge more for rent than they are paying on the mortgage, taxes, and maintenance, it is by definition parasitic.

If they don't charge more for rent than they are paying on the mortgage, taxes, and maintenance, their existence as a landlord is pointless and they are just wasting money.

Tho original comment is gone, so posting this here.

I was in school in the 80s. Bullied horribly (including physical violence). I finally dropped out in my junior year. You hear about it more, because we have faster/more modes of communication (used to be just whatever made it to national news at 6 and 11) and more modes of capturing evidence. Think about that case where the girl goaded her boyfriend into suicide. This could have happened in the 1970s over the phone. No one would know about it. There would have been no evidence.

So sad!!

I’ve done it and would never do it again. The type of person you’d want looking after you nest egg has bought a nest egg or two of their own a while ago.

there is a happy medium somewhere the school officials actually take action on the bullies

Are you being serious here? Have you looked at the housing market turnover in the past few years? Do you seriously think housing is just sitting around vacant and unsold, and the solution to that problem is landlords?

And not this "Zero Tolerance victims get punished too" nonsense.

We're not the Taliban.

Beautiful area and nice place to live. It's considered part of the snow belt by many. I lived there for 5 years and commuted into the city. Would not recommend that to anyone.

Yeah people are just conflating a lot in this thread. If there’s any change that’s needed, it’s not one person that needs to stop buying a second home, it’s the corporations relying on predatory practices to snatch up homes on a large scale to rent. That and/or foreign investors parking their money without improvement to the community.

Saying op should let someone who needs a place to live to buy it could be said about everyone who wins a bid to purchase a home. If I buy a home, and the person I beat out in the market also needed a home, was what I did unethical because I didn’t allow the other person to buy the home at a more affordable price?

People are understandably angry but OP is not nearly the core of the problem.

it's funny cause while I hate it as well I also hate the idea of the state telling people what they can and can't make money off of just as much. imagine them telling regular people they can't sell their car for a profit within 2 years or something dumb... id love to stop all the apartment type buying but id also hate to open pandoras box

Since you’re basing your view on this story of specific redditors you yourself dealt with your point can only be true.

The place is empty now, so no family is living their. So 2 family renters would decrease demand by 2 families.

Hey anyone can come and buy the property. A single family owner could buy it and make it a single family home for the next 30 years. That would reduce the housing stock by one.

The market and town wants someone in their now. Paying taxes and keeping upkeep. The faster the better

Just traffic, as Red Bank gets very congested, particularly around rush hour.

It’s not bad. Ignore the whiners. There will always be a market for rentals. There will always be people who can’t buy or don’t want to buy a house. They need a place to live. People love to hate landlords (and shitty ones do exist unfortunately), but there will always be a need for them.

If you have they money/ability and the desire to do so, then go for it.

Corporate landlord sold the building a few months before my lease was up. They started renting out apartments for new leases a bit lower than what they increased mine to. I think they wanted me out to renovate it.

At least I got my full security deposit back. They could have deducted a decent amount for cleaning.

there is water at the bottom of the ocean.

including when there was parking under the terminal building. which lasted until the wtc attack in 1993. i remember going there as a kid when we'd go to pick up my dad when he flew in and parking under there. those were also the days you could walk all the way down to the gates as long as you went thru the metal detector. a lot has changed.

JFC

The area around I-280 and I-80 in Parsippany is especially bad. I had a plastic bag blow under my car in this area and it got wedged in my rear axle all the way home. The off ramps are especially bad. Exit 8 off I-280 is like driving through a landfill.

Make money off the back of labor in the stock market like everybody else

You're missing my point. Even if the instances of bullying have gone down (and I have no reason to dispute that), today, there are fewer ways to escape bullying. In 1995, we went home after school and we could be isolated from others or if we wanted to talk on the phone to or hang out with friends, we could do that too.

Compare to today. Ding you've been added to a Whatsapp group. Ding you've been mentioned on an Instagram post. Ding your TikTok video has been shared. It is harder to escape all that especially when those are the ways your friends communicate with each other.

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