You know! I would fucking love to stop writing about politics for even one week, but I can't sit here and pretend that it is not effecting me, everyday of my life! We are a lower/middle-class household, but we are not stupid, lazy or otherwise impaired; yet it has become almost impossible for us to be upwardly mobile due to these selfish, blood-sucking corporations.
We see an ad for a home. It is sitting on 5 acres of land. The land is neglected and the home is a DUMP -- we're talking holes in the walls, no flooring, no heating and air, flooded crawl space, broken windows -- DUMP. However, this is a reasonably priced dump. The land itself is probably worth just under the asking price, so the shitty house is thrown in as a hey-at-least-its-got-a-roof incentive. Not bad. Whoever buys it is going to need to like the country, and making repairs.
Here we are, in a little house that we have been making repairs on since we bought it over 6 years ago. We've also been racking up a decent credit score and our kids are at the perfect age to run and play on some acreage while we fix up a house.
"So, why not buy it?" you ask.
Because those greedy fucking banks never just take what they need to get rid of a property. Instead of putting it up for sale they have opened an online bid for it. So, now the property will be bid on and instead of an upwardly mobile (and adorable, I might say) family of four moving into it, loving it and making an investment out of it; some landlord will buy it as his/her 5th property for more than it's worth and overcharge his/her lower/middle-class tenants. THAT or some stupid schmuck will put in the winning bid and have to take out a loan for more money than that dump is worth only to go broke making repairs and end up defaulting on it again.
FURTHERMORE Simply putting this house on the market would have created enough of a bidding war if it's worth more than they are asking. All it takes is two good-credit-score, upwardly-mobile families to want the damn thing. Then, they would have had competing bids. What they are doing by forcing it to be bid only, is making it accessible only to those with disposable income. For that, I want to vomit.
Do you see how greed is ruining our nation?
Good. Carry on.
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