Posted Aug 4, 2019, 1:21 PM
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The City
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Chicago region
Posts: 21,375
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As a landlord I would love to have kitchen free apartments. Less broken appliances that I have to fix.
If we really want to create affordable rentals in our cities then we should move away from hare-brained and punitive property-takings like Rent Control and get more creative.
Have tenants provide their own appliances and maintain them. Hell, probably one of the biggest expenses I have right now is appliance repair/replacement. Appliances these days are built so cheaply in overseas slave labor markets that you’re lucky if they last 5 years without giving you problems.
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