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“Landlords deserve tons of money for no effort because they take on the risks of homeownership”
Landlords when that risk manifests:
Not that it stops this guy from being a pos idiot, but he did say “any amount”. Your critique would fit if he were complaining about local FD “not doing their job” or something.
The point of the post is that he claimed he doesn’t pay taxes for services that, if they were more robust, could have prevented this desperate, hilarious tweet.
He (incorrectly) thinks he can buy his way out of it when it matters. And I have no sympathy for him, fwiw. If it was just his house burning, I’d bring popcorn.
Which is hilarious before we even get to that step. Real estate is one thing where, to make money, you don’t need to be intelligent or a risk taker or even have a lot of up front capital. You mostly need to have flexible ethics and the rest will work out.
will pay any amount
No, he won’t. He will promise any amount and pay half of that to a lawyer to weasel out with some bullshit legalese.
Obviously in true ancap fashion, he’ll need to put the agreed payment in multisig escrow up front. Only an outlaw would refuse!
Any amount, you say?
Even more than what it would cost in taxes?
Call Crassus!
Ironic that his name is “water man”
Hey Keith, need some water, man?
I wonder if it is even real.
Would not be surprising and hilarious if true.
This is definitely one I had to check lol
I didn’t know private firefighters are even a thing.
In the land of the free, the goal is to privatize everything.
Land of the
freefee
That is one of the ways Marcus Crassus got rich in Rome.
The first ever Roman fire brigade was created by Crassus. Fires were almost a daily occurrence in Rome, and Crassus took advantage of the fact that Rome had no fire department, by creating his own brigade—500 men strong—which rushed to burning buildings at the first cry of alarm. Upon arriving at the scene, however, the firefighters did nothing while Crassus offered to buy the burning building from the distressed property owner, at a miserable price. If the owner agreed to sell the property, his men would put out the fire; if the owner refused, then they would simply let the structure burn to the ground. After buying many properties this way, he rebuilt them, and often leased the properties to their original owners or new tenants.>
So get at least a little money but lose the property, or let the property burn down out of spite so nobody gets it. You’d still own the land it’s on, right? Decisions, decisions…
I guess it depends on if you have enough resources to rebuild or not. I don’t think insurance existed back then.
The first option is bad but at least some of your stuff is saved. It depends on if anything was irreplaceable, but then you got to pay this ass clown rent.
The second one is when no one wins, but if you have resources then just rebuild. If you have nothing then sell a plot of land for cheap, but still have nothing from the fire.
Yeah, saving your stuff from the building is a pretty big motivator since he’s only buying the property, not everything in it. I’m sure he got a lot of takers.
he did become the richest man in rome off it, so it would seem so.
I suppose oil well firefighters like Red Adair and similar specialized companies could be counted as private firefighters.
Private emergency services are always a thing, which is why defunding emergency services is always a bad idea -yes, even cops - because the people in charge can usually pay for their own. They don’t GAF when you’re no longer safe, because they can be.
defunding**
Kinda ironic that the dude is called Wassermann which literally translates to waterman in german.
This is how Crassus got rich. When a house burned, he’d show up with his firefighters, and then buy the house for an insultingly low price, because, well, the house was on fire. Then his firefighters would put the fire out.
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My therapist actually helped me uncover a repressed memory about our dear uncle. You wouldn’t believe what he asked me to do.
He asked you to “polish his spear,” too?
Lessons learned
We hired a property management company, but eventually took it in-house. “That was a really big mistake,” Wasserman recounts. “ My wife and I were going up on weekends to rent units. We don’t really speak Spanish so we often relied on Google Translate to speak with potential tenants. We quickly realized that we weren’t the right people to manage those properties so we eventually sold those assets, too.”
Bakersfield taught them some important lessons:
You see, the trick to not having leopards eat your face is in fact to intentionally starve them, and then brag about it publically!
Oh how the turntables…
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I’m not a chemist, what would happen ?
💥
Nah, let’s not do this.
Is it the good stuff, the best quality potassium from Kazakhstan?
Keiss du Hurensohn
Keiss
What’s that, Du Drecksack?
Sein Name ausgesprochen von jemandem der das englische „th“ nicht sprechen kann
I noticed just after hitting ‘reply’, lol. I’d have gone with:
Keetz ez a dummkopf, ja? Sinks money kan buy Feuerwehr. Haha.
for maximum camp.
Just wait until it is about a total war economy, and that their kids and grandkids have to go fight drones.
It will be too scary to repost at, for sure.
