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Jeff Bezos and Amazon joining Blackrock and other Hedge Funds Buying Up Single Family Homes Making us a Rental Nation
Yahoo Finance ^ | August 19, 2022 | Kevin Vandenboss

Posted on 08/20/2022 5:34:55 AM PDT by PK1991

The real estate investment platform backed by Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos has continued ramping up its acquisitions of single-family rental homes in several U.S. markets.

Arrived Homes acquires single-family homes to use as rental properties, then sells shares of these properties to investors through its online platform. The demand for rental property shares has grown exponentially so far in 2022, with more homes funded in July than the entire first quarter.

The company has investment properties in 19 of the top 100 cities for population growth in the U.S. and estimates that it will expand to 40 of the top 100 cities by the end of the year. Most recently, Arrived Homes expanded into Nashville, Cincinnati and Indianapolis.

The investment platform is now able to take advantage of the cooling-down period in the housing market to ramp up its purchases at a time when a growing number of investors are looking for alternative investment options outside of the stock market.

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amazon; bezos; blackrock; housing
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To: TexasFreeper2009
"psstt... you know.. you can buy empty land and BUILD on it right?"

More and more rural and semi-rural areas are being declared off-limits for future development - "climate change," you know.
121 posted on 08/20/2022 9:52:39 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle

again.. Texas is your answer.

I have no idea what other states are doing, but here in Texas, you can build easily, nearly anywhere.

There is of course some simple zoning laws, like an area being residential, but they make sense and are not burdensome.


122 posted on 08/20/2022 10:01:22 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: qaz123
Gates is just buying up the farms so he can feed only the people he wants to

Again...like so many others on this site, what source do you have that the cameras were turned off? Or is that super duper top secret?

Thanks for your input. Have a good day!

123 posted on 08/20/2022 10:06:46 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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The U.S. government will soon be reimbursing Bezos for the cost of housing illegals in these houses he’s bought up in formerly nice neighborhoods. Big government and big business are in bed together and their interests are not aligned with YOUR interests.


124 posted on 08/20/2022 10:13:30 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: Arcadian Empire

Capitalism is not a charity. It is not benovolent.
It is not meant to produce justice.

If government controls corporations, it is not capitalism.
It is fascism. Capitalism sounds cold hearted but actual
experience where it is practiced has proved it lifts all boats.


125 posted on 08/20/2022 10:21:05 AM PDT by entropy12 (Trump & MAGA are the only road to keep USA viable.)
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To: cgbg

Unlike China, there are no restrictions in United States as to how many babies you want to produce.


126 posted on 08/20/2022 10:22:20 AM PDT by entropy12 (Trump & MAGA are the only road to keep USA viable.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

It is wrong to control big business. That is NOT capitalism.
It is even more wrong to straight-jacket small businesses.
Instead of worrying about WTF big businesses are doing,
work on reducing onerous requirements on small businesses.
That will enable them to compete with big business more effectively.


127 posted on 08/20/2022 10:25:48 AM PDT by entropy12 (Trump & MAGA are the only road to keep USA viable.)
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To: entropy12

Where is this capitalism you are talking about practiced? It is clearly not in 21st century US.


128 posted on 08/20/2022 10:31:08 AM PDT by PK1991 ( )
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To: Thommas
Many (most) new home developments attach HOA contracts to all sales. After the mortgage is paid, how is this different from a perpetual rental agreement?

My HOA payment is about $38 a month. Hardly a mortgage payment.

My HOA protects the value of my property. We live in a PID that has several neighborhoods, each with it's own HOA...except one.

In one neighborhood the developer went bankrupt before completing the neighborhood and never established and HOA. The residents say "HUZZAH!" except...

Homes in my neighborhood (with an HOA) are clean, well kept, and we have parks and nice common areas. Home price averages about $375K.

Homes in the non-HOA neighborhood are shabby. There are weeds in the yards, cars on blocks in the driveways, generally looking like crap. They have no nice common areas or parks, just weed choked half lots. They couldn't even keep up their paved trails so the PID had to step in and take control of them. Average price is about $275K.

The trick to living in an HOA is to get a seat on the board. You will have a greater understand of what they do and why and can keep them from going full Nazi.

129 posted on 08/20/2022 10:42:42 AM PDT by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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To: EEGator
I can’t wait for decent neighborhoods to be ruined by renting to ghetto trash and illegals...

It's already happening due to Section 8 renters being inserted into any neighborhood that contains rental houses, even HOAs with other restrictions. As long as there are rental properties, there are Section 8'ers playing loud music at 2 AM, not cutting their grass, growing weeds, letting their dogs pee on their neighbors' lawns, having the cops come to the house, and throwing their trash around the streets, while the owners have to pay 3- and 4-figure HOA dues.

130 posted on 08/20/2022 10:49:25 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free... Galatians 5:1 )
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To: farmguy
Counties should double (or more) property taxes on non-county, corporate owners. That would either increase revenue or discourage this practice.

Brilliant!

131 posted on 08/20/2022 10:51:56 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free... Galatians 5:1 )
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To: Albion Wilde

So not are they ruining the dream of home ownership, and making rent money go down the toilet, but they are destroying decent neighborhoods.

Now, Dequarious Jenkins is going to go to school with your cute 16 y/o daughter...


132 posted on 08/20/2022 10:53:10 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator
Now, Dequarious Jenkins is going to go to school with your cute 16 y/o daughter...

Isn't he our new running back?

133 posted on 08/20/2022 10:54:08 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: EEGator
Now, Dequarious Jenkins is going to go to school with your cute 16 y/o daughter...

And that's already happening because of racial gerrymandering on the county level. Our county swept $100K off the value of the homes in our suburb —years ago—by gerrymandering the schools, even though we had many black professionals in our neighborhood who had moved there to get their kids out of the schools with drugs, knives and guns. So the helpful county began importing a majority of pupils from the guns'n'drugs jurisdictions. Now the suburban teachers can judge the kids of the black doctors and lawyers the same as the kids bused in from the ghetto because skin color.

134 posted on 08/20/2022 11:07:11 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free... Galatians 5:1 )
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To: Albion Wilde

I went to public school in Wilmington DE.
The closed the inner city schools and bused the retards into the suburban schools.
All they did was ruin three formerly good high schools.
The blacks were still complete failures in life.


135 posted on 08/20/2022 11:17:33 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Flick Lives

Black rock is not a hedge fund and is largely retirement accounts for normal folks


136 posted on 08/20/2022 11:27:38 AM PDT by rb22982
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To: EEGator
All they did was ruin three formerly good high schools. The blacks were still complete failures in life.

I am sorry for all the kids. Children have individual needs and group needs; kids with disadvantages need specialized instruction suitable for their abilities; and more than that, Trump's program of bringing manufacturing jobs back to America was precisely what our entire nation needs to lift up distressed, fatherless communities, whether inner city or Appalachia. Men cannot be community or family leaders without meaningful work. Women cannot be content wives and mothers if the men are unable to take care of their children financially.

I remember after the Civil Rights movement gained momentum in the 60s and 70s, black men were making excellent pay in factories, especially in automotive and airline assembly—up to $50 per hour in some skilled trades. Then Clinton did NAFTA, and everything that once was so hopeful for the black community and the nation as a whole has become like Detroit.

137 posted on 08/20/2022 11:37:45 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free... Galatians 5:1 )
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To: Albion Wilde
Then Clinton did NAFTA

He had plenty of help from the GOP.

138 posted on 08/20/2022 11:39:38 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Albion Wilde

They were better off decades ago. Even when not given full equal rights, they at least were married and stuck together.
Everyone is worse off now. (all races with respect to marriage and family bonds)


139 posted on 08/20/2022 12:05:14 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: TexasFreeper2009

And, what’s preventing people from simply building more homes?
= = =

Increasing cost of materials, cost of permits and studies like environmental impact statements etc., changing building codes and requirements like adding mandatory solar to new homes in CA, and then finding labor itself to build it.

And that is just the tip of the (melting due to climate change) iceberg.


140 posted on 08/20/2022 12:29:21 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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