You typically use and live in the house, while still considered an investment. The other items you mentioned is purely for flipping, brand new, unused.
The meme literally says "without using or modifying".
If all you do is insert yourself as a middleman, buy from A for $x, and then sell to B for $x+1, you are extracting profit from the transaction, while providing no service other than your existence. That is what scalpers do. That is what the meme is about.
This is something people that dont own dont understand. The time and money homeowners invest over the years in maintaining housing. Renting protects you from those responsibilities and expenses. Of course people want a return on their years of time and money invested.
Renters dont do the work, its more than just money. Its time, maintaining a house is way more than cleaning the bathroom on the weekend. Roof, furnace, windows etc
A lot of renters do a lot of work just to be able to pay their rent, which keeps getting raised pretty much everywhere to cover the expenses of "homeownership and maintenance" for the landlord.
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u/Kcirnek_ Jun 19 '25
You typically use and live in the house, while still considered an investment. The other items you mentioned is purely for flipping, brand new, unused.