• tonarinokanasan@lemmy.sdf.org
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    7 months ago

    There’s a fundamental difference between furniture and an improvement to the underlying property itself. For example, if you repaint a fence, you can’t take the paint with you, and the value of the paint itself was far lower than the labor cost to apply it to the fence.

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      7 months ago

      And where does a plant fall in this? You can certainly take plants with you, unlike the paint from a fence.

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        7 months ago

        Surely there’s a breakpoint with plants though, right? You could transport a few plants, but probably not a whole garden, or a flower bed, or a tree old enough to have deep roots, etc