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cthulu2016

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3. re: "shocking local markets and driving prices up..."

Reply to Chrom (Original post)

Tue Nov 26, 2013, 02:02 PM

Nov 2013

I am sure that if the banks were doing something to depress prices commondreams would congratulate them. (Are they "shocking" the rental market into price collapse by adding these new rental properties?)

Not 100% of 100% of everything is an outrage.

a) Fuck the banks.
b) There is nothing intrinsically the matter with buying houses to rent out.

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Same Banks that caused foreclosure crisis profiting by buying foreclosed homes to rent back to us [View all] Chrom Nov 2013 OP

It's Almost Like They Planned This....... global1 Nov 2013 #1

The Wall Street way... countryjake Nov 2013 #2

re: "shocking local markets and driving prices up..." cthulu2016 Nov 2013 #3

they are buying all the houses on the cheap, pricing families out of the market by using cash Chrom Dec 2013 #4