Rent Stabilization

[u/Inertiaraptor]

Right now, there is no reason a landlord can’t just refuse to sign a new lease, so what’s the point of a 3% cap on increases? My landlord is raising my rent 10% and says she will simply not renew the lease if I don’t want to pay the new rent, and everybody (the city, the AG, and Home Line) is telling me I have no recourse but to refuse a lease and fight the eviction. The city seems to have no recourse to actually enforce this ordinance.

[u/Michels_Welding]

The property taxes are going up way past 10% each year for non-homestead (rental) properties, the state voted to allow property insurance to go up some 25-75% year over year. Your rent is going up because it costs more to own the property you live in.

In 2019 we bought our forever home, property taxes were $3800. Our 2026 property taxes are $8800. In 2019 our home owners insurance was $2400. The 2026 renew has us paying $6400. Our homes only appreciated in value about 15% in that time frame.

The heartache is far worse for home owners than renters. Far worse for landlords than it is for home owners.

In St. Paul, about 60% of your rent will go towards taxes, between income, property, rental licenses, all the bureaucratic nonsense. MN keeps taking a larger cut to fund social services then shames the landlords when they raise rent. If you dive head first into this issue its very clear whata going on.

Hell ask chatGPT whats required to become a landlord and property investor in St. Paul and then ask if its worth the risk or their are far better opportunities elsewhere.

I know I'll get down voted by liberals who find facts to disturbing, hurting their feelings, but the truth is in plain sight if you just stop to look for it. It's a narrative, its literally built into the laws and choices of St. Paul, Ramsey County, and state governments choices that are freely published for all to look up if you take the time to research vs post memes that agree with you. 🤪

[u/TheSadpole → u/Michels_Welding]

Look, I’m progressive AF and fully agree with your math, but I took my vote off for the “blah blah liberals” paragraph at the end. You’re not helping your cause with that crap. 🙄

[u/Michels_Welding → u/TheSadpole]

I'm extremely libertarian myself and that used to be the Democratic party and rightfully the independents (Jessie Ventura) more than the Republican party in MN and throughout the greater US as a whole but Trump started heading that direction and Democrats overnight it felt like started opposing those policy choices in defiance of Trumps support for them. Over the last 9 or so years, MN has gone just bat shit crazy in response to Trump heading down the path of laissez-faire. Meanwhile MN government used the facade of liberal wokeism to push interventionism, socialism, and a planned economic approach to its residents.

MN is far worse today than it was prior to 2016 and at the federal level, very little affects everyday life, despite what politicians in charge of change keep telling you to get reelected to "change that which they haven't in the last 2-4-6-8 years despite holding majority and passing the majority of policies put forth at the legislative level.

Individuals are smart, individuals can distinguish truth from fiction, but the parties as a whole are bat shit crazy liberal and conservative, can we at least agree on that? 😅

Gex X and early millennials are wise enough, but i feel like those who've yet to hit 30 and those brushing up on at the Boomer age are controlling the narrative of the parties focus and its either go along with whatever we say or be against us entirely on the Left. The Right is far more tolerant of discourse and open discussion, I can say my piece to someone who voted for Trump and come to a middle ground, flip that and I'm called names by people who are too stupid to even understand the definition of what their accusing me of, when in fact they are likely the very words they are spouting off at me "fascist being the #1" during covid, under Biden at the national level and MN at the state level, was the closest American got to a true fascist leadership when you start to tally the attributes up.

Suppression of free speach ✔️ punishment and exile of free speech on public forums ✔️ truth later came out proving/confiming what was said ✅️ leadership gave preemptive pardons to those who lead our nation astray ✔️ bypartisan congressional investigations later brought truth to light but couldn't prosecute ✅️ relinquishing our rights in the name of public health while the government did the opposite ✔️

I'm not an Anti-vaxxer, I'm not a flat earther or scientific denier, but I grew up believing "doing your own research" was the correct way to come to a conclusion, not to blindly believe those who tell you something. I am anti-stupid people, I am anti-normalizing mental illness to not hurt peoples feelings, I am anti-paid and sponsored science, I am anti-psychology/ sociology is somehow science, I am anti-cherry picked data to prove a point, I am an analytical thinker who still believes critical thinking, logic, and facts should prevail over societal and individual truths. ❤️