“Steal a little, they throw you in jail. Steal a lot, they make you a king”.

Parasites

Just to be fair. Many homes are modified aka flipped. Not saying they do a great job….

Replace scalper and investor with: ‘cunt’

I feel like there has to be a half-life for scalping. If I buy a new-in-box item that has limited supply and immediately flip it, that’s definitely scalping. If I sit on it for 30yr and then flip it, is that really scalping? I dunno. I buy a lot of old mint board games to actually play them. I have to pay a huge markup. I don’t know that it’s necessarily right from a commerce perspective to expect someone who’s held onto something for 30yr and kept it in good shape to not get something extra for that time and work.

I remember when the NES Mini first came out a few years ago I was on Nextdoor and some lady was trying to sell off 5 of them for twice what they were worth. Several people commented on her post saying not to buy from scalpers, and she kept getting upset saying she “bought them for her son who didn’t want them”, but then wouldn’t say anything else when someone asked why she thought her son needed 5 of them when he apparently hadn’t even wanted one in the first place lol

Silly investors, must learn from my secret method to obtain true inner haopiness:

1. Buy house during shortage when prices are insane
2. Everything breaks and you struggle through replacing it all one by one
3. Prices go down more than offsetting your efforts with loss
4. ???
5. Profit. Emotionally. Because you’re happy with the heap of wood sticks plywood and fancy paper over your head that keeps you dry and comfy and weren’t planning to sell it anyway.

Cirno plushes are limited and in high demand?