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    jon-nyc
    wrote on 21 May 2025, 13:00 last edited by
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    30% of single-family homes in Atlanta are now owned by institutional investors.

    https://unusualwhales.com/news/investors-now-own-30-of-metro-atlantas-single-family-rental-homes

    "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
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      taiwan_girl
      wrote on 22 May 2025, 15:43 last edited by
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      How to fix? NOt sure you can limit to whom you sell. Maybe require owners to live in the house, but then that decreases teh rentals even more. :shrug

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        Horace
        wrote on 22 May 2025, 15:46 last edited by
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        Financial benefits that accrue only to owners who live there, are common. We have them here.

        Education is extremely important.

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          LuFins Dad
          wrote on 22 May 2025, 16:09 last edited by
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          The other weird thing is how many of these properties go on the books as AirBnB but are never actually rented out on the sites.

          The Brad

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            xenon
            wrote on 22 May 2025, 16:11 last edited by xenon
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            I think it's 30% of rental single family homes, but the point still stands. It's a lot, and they distort the market for regular home sales since they're always in the mix.

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              22 May 2025, 15:43

              How to fix? NOt sure you can limit to whom you sell. Maybe require owners to live in the house, but then that decreases teh rentals even more. :shrug

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              89th
              wrote on 22 May 2025, 16:54 last edited by
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              @taiwan_girl said in 30%:

              How to fix? NOt sure you can limit to whom you sell.

              I'd imagine it would be somewhat simple to have a law that requires you to live in a house if you buy it. Grandfather existing rentals, I guess. But otherwise the law would be clear that sales cannot be to institutional investors.

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                jon-nyc
                wrote on 22 May 2025, 16:55 last edited by jon-nyc
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                Per Horace’s comment you just tax them extra for non-owner occupied. It wouldn’t eliminate it but you’d adjust the economics of their business model.

                Of course then all rentals would be more expensive.

                "You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
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                  22 May 2025, 16:54

                  @taiwan_girl said in 30%:

                  How to fix? NOt sure you can limit to whom you sell.

                  I'd imagine it would be somewhat simple to have a law that requires you to live in a house if you buy it. Grandfather existing rentals, I guess. But otherwise the law would be clear that sales cannot be to institutional investors.

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                  taiwan_girl
                  wrote on 22 May 2025, 18:00 last edited by
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                  @89th said in 30%:

                  @taiwan_girl said in 30%:

                  How to fix? NOt sure you can limit to whom you sell.

                  I'd imagine it would be somewhat simple to have a law that requires you to live in a house if you buy it. Grandfather existing rentals, I guess. But otherwise the law would be clear that sales cannot be to institutional investors.

                  The problem I see is that it would eliminate the rental houses almost completely.

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