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bruce511today at 5:39 AM2 repliesview on HN

Unfortunately that doesn't really help. It has the effect of eroding the asset value such that it quickly means the owner can't sell.

In other words, if selling removes much of your capital, you then don't gave capital to spend on the next place.

Conversely investors become even more motivated not to ever sell. They can defer the LVT forever, and just use the property as collateral for loans (ie getting liquidity without selling.)

And LVT just becomes an expense built into the cost of rent. The investor never pays it anyway, the tenant ultimately pays it.


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snovv_crashtoday at 6:25 AM

How will they use it as collateral if it has no value upon sale?

Similarly, why would the next place be expensive if it couldn't be used as a speculative asset?

hdgvhicvtoday at 6:02 AM

The tennant pays now anyway. Of a landlord could charge more rent they would.

Two identical properties, one under mortgage and one that isn’t, have identical rental prices. The costs to the landlord are irrelevant.

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