“We buy homes” companies are procuring disaster-damaged properties for cheap. Survivors say they’re taking advantage of tragedy.

  • Deflated0ne@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Welcome to capitalism.

    There’s always a vulture waiting in the wings to pick you clean when you’re at your lowest.

  • foggy@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Then don’t sell them for cheap.

    That is how supply and demand works.

    • rumba@lemmy.zip
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      11 days ago

      They are stuck. They don’t have a place to live. They probably don’t have a lot of expendable cash to cover until the insurance companies get around to paying, assuming the insurance companies don’t try to fuck them over through act of God rules.

      Everybody’s situation is different and you can’t say just don’t sell, you’re not in their shoes.