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Yes, real estate investors are the definitely the group most in need of empowerment... /s

Edit: The ethics of this project are questionable, assisting real estate investors at the expense of first time home buyers (indicated by the heavy focus of this tool on optimizing profit through rental income) is not what our society needs at the current moment, in my opinion, as it reduces the pool of available homes for sale and forces our society further into separation between people catapulting their wealth and those who just want an affordable house to actually live in with their families while adding an asset to their net worth.

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Edited to address your concerns and better fit the guidelines, I hope it meets your approval.

I agree, your edit fits the guidelines better.

This tool is more for smaller investors not really massive funds or companies like Blackstone.

Why should we want more landlords at all? Tools like this help to further the already terrible stratification and suck more money out of those who are on the lower end of the income spectrum and funnel it to those who do already have money

I am not here to defend any particular group, but I just don't think this comment is fair to anyone. At the end of the day anything that can help the market become more efficient is a good thing.

> At the end of the day anything that can help the market become more efficient is a good thing.

Efficient for whom? The person who has a one-off need for housing every few years? Or the person who already has the time, money, and connections to leverage money into bundling up more housing for themselves to loan out to that first group?

This also presumes that housing, at least primary residences, should be a market instead of a utility, which is not at all a given considering how the "market" is working out (or not) for a lot of people right now. Tools like this further increase that gap.

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