Dan Fleming | Apartment Investing

How about this. Stop looking at my plate and mind your own business. What makes me happy, is to never stop, and continue to add value to my family, their future generations, to charity, and to these blessed United States of America. Sending good wishes to you.

Back in the days of no-fault 30- and 60-Day notices, landlords had some influence over tenants' behavior. If other tenants kept complaining someone played loud music, had loud parties on weeknights, or smoked outside their kids' bedroom windows, I could make the offender leave without a protracted court battle over whether that behavior constitutes a nuisance, and without having to drag other tenants into court to testify. Now, the worst ones know that even when they make life hell for their neighbors, there's usually nothing I can do.

The Yimby movement has been ineffective because many of its members don’t actually believe in profit. In places like Los Angeles politicians have eroded the ability for investors and developers to profit on housing. Housing takes enormous capital risk and time. So less and less developers are willing to get out of the ground in LA. ADUs were good for a while, but now a lot of the smaller builders are also getting tired of the weekly “tenant protections” popping up. So they’re also quietly exiting the market. If Yimby’s want to get results they have to fully accept profit as the main driver for getting meaningful housing built. And to do that they need to reject the anti landlord / investor movement that is growing in LA and other left leaning cities. Upzoning looks great on paper and for the polls, but it won’t be enough to bring back the investors and builders.

Young Californians aren't doing anything wrong. They're just living in a state that stopped building homes. I'll build one million homes in four years.

The people who keep California running — teachers, nurses, child care providers, and bus drivers — can't afford housing in the communities they serve. The solution is simple: We stopped building homes. I'm going to build them again.