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A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
human
Yep. The same people taking a retirement job to stay busy while outbidding you with a cash offer for their second vacation home with their pension money are voting for people who kill unions, freeze wages, let your health insurance bill skyrocket and who say that young people don’t want to work anymore.
gpt
Yeah this is a huge problem. It seems half my ride share rides are fancy cars a ride share driver couldn’t afford. acuras and 60k suvs. Just to stay busy.

Yeah my parents bought a second place and beat out all the cash offers, decided they didn’t like it and flipped it for 200k more. They said people were offering 150k more than the next cash bid and ridiculous stuff like that.

Like those places used to be 175k total, not 200k over asking which was a ridiculous price that I can’t remember.

Just a two bedroom condo 1200 square feet probably 600k 3x what it was when I last checked. I think they might have sold it for 800k I dunno they wanted to try to get MORE money out of a divorced lady and it’s like she just went through a divorce, these are real people looking for a primary home not people who indent to stay one weekend a month. It’s like these are real regular people. They had so much greed in their voice over the phone. Yeah they’re republicans.

I don’t think they even spent a whole month there combined over that first year. Just an empty unit sitting. Meanwhile they put in the fanciest lighting fixtures, painted it, etc and yeah, exactly what you’re describing.

Rich boomers, buying what could be a families home for 3-4x what they used to go for, dropping 50k into fixing it up (it was a fix and flip before so it was already fancy, they just don’t do Home Depot lighting fixtures, it’s gotta be a fancy place, what if someone found out?

At least my dad volunteers instead of taking a job from someone who needs it.

I’m in affordable housing on section 8 and they inherited 400k and spent 100% on a boat when my older brother was homeless and I was facing eviction. My older brother killed himself over being homeless and honestly I wouldn’t want to live on the street.

I’m worried if government debt builds up too much that they won’t be able to pay Ssdi and section 8 and I’ll be broke and homeless.

My parents are sure to spend all the money before they pass. I mean that 400k they inherited goes back to the Industrial Revolution… like they spent it  in a month, all on a boat, that they couldn’t afford to maintain and had to sell at a loss. 380k for a boat and 110k for affordable housing. They got a less “glam” boat and its a $225k 27” lobster boat.

They had a 60k boat they sold for 80k and pocketed the cash.

My aunt and uncle gave 2/3rds of the money to their children bc the will said money goes from someone well off to someone less well off. 

My aunt and uncle compared themselves to their children and my parents compared themselves to people with jets and said they’re less well off.

Then they’re like oh I wish there was something we could have done! At my brothers funeral it’s like (I didn’t say this but) well you could have bought both of us affordable housing units and still gotten your lobster boat and not lost 80k+ on the “glam” boat.

So kind of went off track there but yeah housing prices are ridiculous. Boomers take cash jobs and starter houses. Like 175k fine. 800k for the same unit? How can it be?

I know someone with 50 million from selling his company and he was already rich. He drives a launch in the summer. A water taxi. A job college kids used to do. To keep busy bc he sold his company for 50m but he didn’t move or anything bc his stuff was already so fancy.