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From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow)
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Subject: Re: Rental Housing ...
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Date: Tue, 1-May-84 15:03:05 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  1 15:03:05 1984
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Mr Runyon's unfortunate experience with landlords in San Mateo
is not unique.  Alas, I find it hard to be sympathetic, as his
problem is a corrolary of "Any company with a union probably
deserves it."

There are always options.  If you rent, you have signed your life
away in the finest Medieval tradition.  You don't have to rent,
even if you can't afford to buy your own house.  If you get together
with enough folks like yourself, you can buy CO-OPERATIVELY.  You can
even arrange for some rich, high-tech friend to buy the house for
you (for the depreciation), but net-lease it to you, with an option
to buy, such that the owner has NO CONTROL over how you run the place
and even shares some of that tax saving with you.

Before becoming a yuppie, I spent most of the 70's working in and for
co-operative housing in Madison, Wis.  I know whereof I speak.  It's
a different kind of life, but it works.  Laugh at co-ops if you want--
I laugh too, all the way to the bank.
-- 
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