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All this can create a pretty insecure living situation for the tenants.” It’s the landlord’s property – giving them the power to increase rents, kick out tenants and fix the house up as they please.Īs puts it, “One of the biggest individual problems with renting is the inherent power differences between the landlord and the renters. The wealth shift goes to larger, more powerful groups from smaller, less powerful groups, meaning that over time, the more powerful groups grow even more powerful while weakening the smaller groups that spend ISK without directly getting anything for it. Over time, this “black hole” effect can lead to fewer and fewer major powers in nullsec most of the power will be aggregated in a handful of mega-coalitions. Unlike in real life, in which landlords may have to put some of their rent-earned money back into upkeep and property taxes, EVE space and “housing” don’t degrade (except when CCP devalues space through redistribution or devaluation of resources). Therefore, renting provides landlords with a steady stream of income at little, if any, cost. The only “cost” for the landlord is protection. A larger corp rents out space to a smaller corp that believes they can’t protect themselves from attack, including an attack from the very corporation they rent from (in this case, rent can be seen as a kind of extortion: “If you pay us bounty each month, we won’t attack you”).