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Originally Posted by redpoint5
It's a bit of an intractable problem. In my estimation, rents are already too high, and it's not just because the owners are greedy. There are high costs associated with owning and maintaining apartments because many tenants abuse them. The only thing treated worse than a rental car would be a rental domicile. People tend not to take good care of things they don't own (the reason why socialism\communism can never work on a large scale).
Perhaps sometime in the future it will be in the apartment owners interest to provide charging as a service to tenants, but currently 97% of vehicles sold are ICE, and there's little incentive to invest in the fringe option.
I'm a rental property owner and I know that renters are typically less responsible in all areas of their life than homeowners. Sure, there are fantastic renters (I was in an apt 2 years ago), but people who are highly motivated and responsible don't tend to rent for long.
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It's like anything else. For the bad actions of a few everyone else pays. Rent had quadrupled here in the past 10 years. And no, my income hasn't quadrupled. But marijuana was legalized then everyone wants to move here. There's a lot of people now wanting to move here but there aren't any rentals available. And the ones who do rent end up burning down their places because they're high on drugs.