2006-08-25 09:24:53 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Economics
b/c you are an idiot who doesn't just buy
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2006-08-25 09:30:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because as the gap between rich and poor increases, more and more property will be concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. The result is that both property prices and rents will go up, until eventually everyone is basically enslaved to the wealthy few.
There have been rent strikes, where renters get together and refuse to pay the landlord (or the mortgage), while continuing to use the land. This challenge to capitalism is usually repressed by the government, so you'd need lots of organization in the community to make it successful.
2006-08-26 06:40:42 · answer #2 · answered by cyu 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because you are paying for the privilege of using something which belongs to someone else. If you don't like it buy something and live in that, then you won't pay rent.
2006-08-25 09:31:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well then save money, put a down payment on a house, and buy the house. Thats what I did when I moved to Houston for graduate school.
2006-08-25 09:31:02 · answer #4 · answered by graduate student 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because it beats a cardboard box. But if you want to be free go ahead. I think I have an old TV box out back you can have.
2006-08-28 13:22:41 · answer #5 · answered by bjh 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because we don't have the money to buy a home and we don't
want to live in the street...
Why do you pay rent ?
2006-08-25 09:31:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because we need a roof :)
BTW, we are more property-buyers in Spain, rent is very rare.
2006-08-26 02:47:50 · answer #7 · answered by Isabel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the owner needs the money to pay the mortgage on your apartment? He/she has bills to pay too. Life ain't free.
2006-08-25 09:31:51 · answer #8 · answered by Alice Chaos 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Buy a house if you don't want to pay rent...
2006-08-25 09:27:38 · answer #9 · answered by latitude 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Have you ever been homeless ?
You could always pitch a tent or cardboard box somewhere.
2006-08-25 10:19:53 · answer #10 · answered by Big Bear 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'd rather rent. No insurance, no upkeep, no yardwork, no taxes...
2006-08-25 09:30:44 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋