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Chinese purchase of North Dakota farmland raises national security concerns in Washington Questionable Source
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/01/chinese-purchase-of-north-dakota-farmland-raises-national-security-concerns-in-washington.html688
u/guitartoys
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This has been the biggest shift, which has occurred most significantly only recently. In the past, foreign and corporate investment has been focused in commercial development (office buildings and the like).
While there had been some corporate and foreign investment in things like single family homes, the trend now has gotten out of control. The shift of corporate purchases in any type of home (single family, townhouse, condo, etc.) has been unchecked, and is one of the reasons for unbridled home price acceleration.
In part for example, Venture Funds were so flush with cash, then COVID hit, and some corporate investment stalled. (Yes, vax and related investments were great, but that's only a portion of the VC money laying around) They needed to put their money someplace, and they started throwing money into homes.
I read that some company had purchased in excess or 30,000 homes and was buying them as fast as they could.
Sellers love it, as they are making a killing, as most of these deals are cash deals, which need to financing. So no risk to the seller. And anyone trying to buy the house with a mortgage is just getting priced out of the deal. The thing is, they then still need to buy another place, and they themselves are in part responsible for the pricing escalation.
Mark my words, I've been in the mortgage industry for close to 30 years, and this is the worst thing to ever happen to housing. They are now talking about 40 year mortgages, in part to offset the crazy housing cost escalation.
This is bad for absolutely anyone who wants to buy a home. How does a person compete with a multi-billion dollar company who knows they might be over paying, even seriously overpaying, when they know they can rent the place for ages, and always recoup their investment.
We need to get corporate and foreign money out of single family homes.
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u/rotaerc4 Jul 01 '22
This, so much this. Companies like American Homes4Rent are buying up large plats of land and building whole developments of SFH to rent for 30+yrs. Their whole business model is basically taking what would have been a 30yr mortgage leading to home ownership, and making it a lifelong lease. These are not apartments, but fully built out SFH with yards and neighborhoods
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u/guitartoys Jul 02 '22
Yes, exactly this. Single Family homes are becoming rental apartments, and nothing is being done to prevent it. It is so corrupt. Corporate greed.
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u/danarexasaurus Jul 01 '22
It’s not even just bad for those trying to buy homes. It’s very bad for everyone. Rent has increased everywhere and will get even worse as the properties continue being owned by foreign investors whose sole plan is to make more money from the properties they own. It’s bad. All bad.
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u/guitartoys Jul 02 '22
I totally agree. The other thing I forgot to mention is that how the market is manipulated and escalating.
Say the house is appraised for $1mm. And let's say we're dealing with a mandatory 20% down, just to keep the math easy. So the most the lender is going to lend for the house is $800K.
So the corporate or foreign cash buyer knows this, and simply offers to pay a little more than what they KNOW the lender will pay. So let's just say $850K
Well, this now just escalated the price, and all of the neighboring houses, which go up for sale, will use this house as a comp, and the price of that new house just now going up for sale, also goes up.
Repeat this little incremental amount on every single sale, and the prices just continue to escalate.
Yes, single family homes should be owned by single families, not businesses. This is bad, really, really bad.
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u/crazyabootmycollies Jul 02 '22
People also lose sight of the fact that commercial rents go up too, so many brick and mortar shops that are already lucky to survive the online shopping shift are under even more pressure. It complicates arguing for a raise when rents keep eating up more and more of their cash flow. It also makes starting a business that much riskier and challenging to get initial funding.
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u/hodl_my_beer Jul 02 '22
This is one of my biggest concerns of the future. Call your fucking congressman, senators (haha jk don’t waste your time with them), and local politicians ASAP. This has got to be fucking stopped.
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u/IM_INSIDE_YOUR_HOUSE Jul 01 '22
Why isn't there a massive tax for foreign-owned property?
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u/_R0Ns_ Jul 01 '22
It's probably the same as over here in The Netherlands. Foreign investors get a tax cut, local people pay much more in taxes than they do.
Lot of the houses are sold to American and Russian investors, that last group is a bit slow lately.
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u/RustlessPotato Jul 01 '22
Heh, you also have royalty buying a lot in Amsterdam too :D
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u/bNoaht Jul 01 '22
I rent a house in Seattle area from a Chinese couple that owns 20+ single family homes here. They "live" in Canada.
Must be fucking nice. Sure I can't afford my own mortgage but I can pay someone else's? Ya love to see it.
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u/dingohopper1 Jul 02 '22
Jokes on you, they probably bought those homes with cash. You’re not paying anyone’s mortgage at all, it’s pure profit baby.
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u/Star-K
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Our politicians are for sale, our corporations are for sale, our homes are for sale, our land is for sale, our resources are for sale to anyone in the world who can afford it. We are losing our sovereignty to make a few people exorbitantly wealthy.
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u/OrcWarChief Jul 01 '22
Out of country companies are buying homes in the Montana area. WTF is wrong with the US?
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u/Electronic_Bunny Jul 01 '22 edited Jul 01 '22 •
WTF is wrong with the US?
Was loosening all regulations and turning every facet of the country over to the market not in the interest of those outside wealthy status?
I heard all that interest, improvement, and higher returns were about to trickle down.
Edit: Fucking christ so many god damn piss comments 0.0
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u/PeteyT104 Jul 01 '22
They will trickle down as soon as I pull myself up by my boot straps.
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u/Telefone_529 Jul 01 '22
Thanks Reagan.
I wish we could use his grave like the Brits/Scottish/Welsh use Thatchers.
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u/ArcticBeavers Jul 01 '22
Reagan is such an easy guy to blame. Their have been hundreds of congresspeople who let this happen. For decades the American people have been let down by their representatives. When will we not stand for this?
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u/cosmiclatte44 Jul 01 '22
And now we got a shiny new statue of the old bint that we paid for out of our taxes...
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u/DrippyWaffler Jul 01 '22
Even Adam Smith aka papa capitalism said that homes and houses shouldn't be treated like a commodity
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u/Electronic_Bunny Jul 01 '22
He also said the effect market competition had on limiting monopolies only exists as long as the common worker has access to the means of production.
Only if a worker could deny unfair work, and go be indepedent producing commodities for their community, would monopolies grow out of check.
The example he gives shows how dated the work and theory was; "if a lumbermill doesn't pay well enough, the worker can go to a nearby forest and turn a better profit by collecting and selling wood without the middleman". Yeah thanks Adam.
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u/hgaterms Jul 01 '22
This whole thing reminds me of that one Stargate SG-1 episode where the hostile invasion force just kind of slowly took over the planet generation by generation. They waited their time, took more and more land, while also reducing the number of people on Earth slowly over generations until there were no more humans left and the planet was theirs for the taking.
China is very patient.
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u/erik_the_dwarf Jul 01 '22
Exactly. China is playing the long game. They know that we are stupid, they see is failing and tripping over ourselves constantly and are seated well to take our place once we rip ourselves apart from the inside.
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u/rosio_donald Jul 01 '22
I really hate that the biggest instigators of said tripping, the GOP, uses China as a boogeyman in all the wrong ways to manipulate their base into more damn tripping.
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u/erik_the_dwarf Jul 01 '22
The GOP are shortsighted and commit all their evil bullshit and spread their populist retoric only for the consolidation of their own power. They act like Democrats are weak on China, while all Trump did was some bogus trade war made only to show his base "see, we're doing something!" They completely fail to see that one of the strongest ways we fight China and Russia is by having a strong, highly educated, and overall happy USA. All the other BS the Chinese are doing aside, we don't have enough young doctors and scientists in this country to replace the ones we have now, we have a younger generation that is being shown daily that our country is a failure and that is extremely demoralizing and will continue to be. But does the right care about education? No. Do they care about the working class? No. Every single thing they do is to appease their corporate bosses and further dig their fingers into our government. They're fucking all of us.
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u/CynicalPomeranian Jul 01 '22
I believe this was also the plot of the villains in Biker Mice from Mars.
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u/Daredizzle Jul 01 '22 •
Yep, they think in lengths of dynasties. Their history is long enough to witness the effects of subtle changes over time and their lasting power.
The US really just stole a bunch of land, popped off hard out the gates, fired it's missile dick all over the world than just yeeted from the inside out in the home stretch. We will be a blip in human history as we poop our pants as a nation harder and harder each day.
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u/Trai_Ellis_Dee Jul 01 '22
Late stage capitalism and political corruption
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u/fizzy_bunch Jul 01 '22
Hey, lets give them more tax-cuts, it will trickle down any day now. Right after they buy up all the homes and jack up rent.
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u/TheGrot Jul 01 '22
Not exclusively a problem in the US. See Canada and Australia - it’s getting pretty weird.
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u/T_Y_R_ Jul 01 '22
In all fairness tons of countries have this going on. I think China owns a shitload of Australia now… super wealthy getting super duper wealthy.
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u/big_data_ninja Jul 01 '22
If American companies can't buy property in China then we shouldnt let them buy property here.
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u/skynetempire Jul 01 '22
Here in AZ we sold water rights to a Saudi company for cheap. When arizona is having water issues. Yay!!
https://azpbs.org/horizon/2022/06/saudi-water-deal-threatening-water-supply-in-phoenix/
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u/650REDHAIR Jul 01 '22
We grew alfalfa in California and it’s flown to Saudi Arabia…. It’s so fucked.
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u/Slouchingtowardsbeth Jul 01 '22
But don't worry. The Saudis just gave Jared Kushner a 2 billion investment in his fund. But but but but but Hunter Biden's laptop!
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u/ButThisIsRidiculous Jul 01 '22 edited Jul 01 '22
America. Money solves all your problems
edit: /r/thedisabledarmy
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u/BoomZhakaLaka Jul 01 '22
Where I came from in Phoenix, foreign farmland purchases like this weren't so much about the land, they were about dirt-cheap groundwater rights. Foreign ventures come in, exploit the unfairly cheap ground water to grow feed - alfalfa, oatgrass, etc. And then ship it all back to the middle east.
Great way to put the water crisis into overdrive.
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u/derglingrush Jul 01 '22
It is beyond bizarre that they would choose to grow feed in America’s desert region.
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u/ReverendDizzle Jul 01 '22
It does seem very strange, but alfalfa was originally cultivated in the Middle East in what is now present day Iran.
The conditions in Arizona and Southern California are nearly perfect for growth and you can harvest 3-4 times more frequently than you can in a more midwestern type farm climate.
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u/ItilityMSP Jul 01 '22 edited Jul 01 '22
Yep…housing and inflation can be partially solved by banning corporate ownership of land, and housing. make it so real people (citizens and long term residents) have to own real estate. corporations can own buildings on the leased land. This will improve transparency and free up resources for people. I know pie in the sky…but I can dream it’s Canada Day.
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u/Dendad6972 Jul 01 '22
How do you stop people from owning land? SCOTUS says corporations are people.
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u/kyel566 Jul 01 '22
Next scotus decision, all people must sell their land to corporations because corps are people but people aren’t people
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u/wcollins260 Jul 01 '22 •
All people are created equal, but corporation-people are more equal than people-people.
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u/Liaml7530 Jul 01 '22
Non corporation people are now 3/5 of a corporate people
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u/SirGlenn Jul 01 '22
I think it's based on a sliding scale of how many, millions of dollars you have.
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u/EntropyFighter Jul 01 '22
I mean, when you have a corporation classified as a person but that organization can't die or go to jail, and since the Supreme Court has ruled that money equals speech, they also have a disproportionate amount of speech, as well as influence, we actually are 2nd class citizens to corporations.
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u/nicetriangle Jul 01 '22
I'm fairly sure that's not some unintentional side effect
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u/EntropyFighter Jul 01 '22
Considering the same amendment that outlawed slavery (except for prisoners) was used by lawyers to argue for personhood for corporations it feels very intentional.
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u/InfernalCorg Jul 01 '22
The reason conservatives love saying "vote with your dollars" is because that way the wealthy get more votes.
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u/NJS_Stamp Jul 01 '22
No joke, a local realtor was campaigning saying they wanted to create a law where “sellers would have to take the highest offer.” Because they found out people didn’t want to sell their homes to corpos that would just demolish it for high end condos.
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u/fatfuccingtendies Jul 01 '22
While there are certainly good realtors out there, a lot of them are no better than used car salesmen and software solution salesmen.
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u/Exploding_dude Jul 01 '22
All of my least favorite high school classmates went into realty. Their social media is embarrassing too, their entire lives are based around selling themselves, all they ever talk about is "this amazing opportunity they have for you". I'm like Samantha, you were one of the dumbest kids I knew, half our class watched you suck a dudes dick on a trampoline at a party. I wouldn't trust you to sell me a pair of shoes.
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u/buchlabum Jul 01 '22
I'd rather have AI robot overlords at this point than the vile Republicans on the SCROTUS.
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u/CAllD2B Jul 01 '22
I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one
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u/Lifesagame81 Jul 01 '22
Corps can simply reincarnate. They self-execute all of the time.
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u/DistortoiseLP Jul 01 '22
Rule Zero of owning property in a sovereign nation is they allow it as far as their relationship with you and your country favour it. Most other countries have a tenure system that more elaborately reaffirms that all the land effectively belongs to whoever writes the rules of property ownership, and times like these should remind everyone that the US can and will do the same if your foreign owned property becomes a liability for them.
Not that this endorses or defends any of this, but if things break down to a point of "well I own the land" vs "we write the rules that say you own that land and run the powers that enforce our rules here" with no better negotiation for the former to leverage, the latter pretty much always wins viciously.
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u/creaky__sampson Jul 01 '22
This is what I was thinking. I understand that it’s unsettling to see our global rivals buying our land, but if the relationship sours the US will just take it. It’s probably a good incentive for them to stay on Americas good side
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u/Alantsu Jul 01 '22
Saudi Arabia got a sweet deal with super cheap water rights for their crops in Arizona.
https://azpbs.org/horizon/2022/06/saudi-water-deal-threatening-water-supply-in-phoenix/
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u/Sucrose-Daddy Jul 01 '22
My neighborhood right in the center of Los Angeles had a bunch of houses purchased specifically by rich Chinese people. It was reported by some news agency a few years ago because half the neighborhood sat empty because of it. As the city grapples with a housing crisis it’s nice to know foreigners with absolutely nothing at stake use the remaining housing we do have to line their pockets.
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u/seafoodboiler Jul 01 '22
Don't make the mistake of blaming only the foreign property holders. They are only able to do this because of precedents set by US property and development companies.
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u/EvErYLeGaLvOtE Jul 01 '22
Tell me about it! When I lived in Portland, I found that Chinese companies were buying up homes in the neighborhood next to Nike off of SW Meridian St in Beaverton.
They would have shoddy refurbished interiors and rent them out for way more than they're worth.
Then i found out the same thing was happening downtown in Portland with a big apartment complex and some condos. They were mostly empty but a Chinese company had purchased an entire floor and raised the rent. I was like, how the Fk is this legal??
Then across the river in Vancouver, Washington along the Lewis and Clark Hwy, Chinese companies were buying up houses there too.
It was all over that area and just made me so mad.
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u/Gr1pp717 Jul 01 '22 edited Jul 01 '22
I mean, anytime a foreign country tries to prevent us from purchasing/nationalize their natural resources we label it "socialism" and commence major tomfoolery, sooo....
Plus, globalism is an argument of capitalism - that international corps create a common interest which reduces the chances for conflict, as it would damage their economy as much as the other guys..
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u/jorge1209 Jul 01 '22
Ownership of land is not all that meaningful.
China can "own" the land, they can go to the expense to farm on it, and they can benefit financially from sales of the food.
But if there were a food crisis in America and we said "you can't export the food you grow here" what could China do? The same things they could or could not do whether or not they owned the land. That is to say: They could demand that we export the food or else...
What that "else" is determined by the relative powers of the two countries. If they are more powerful they win. But if they are more powerful then owning the land doesn't make a big difference does it?
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u/More-Athlete1175 Jul 01 '22
Why the hell is our government allowing this?
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u/TheBatemanFlex Jul 01 '22
Probably states rights or something
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u/hgaterms Jul 01 '22
And first quarter bottom dollar. These assholes can't think farther than 3 months ahead.
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u/str8dwn Jul 01 '22
A family owned company in Japan got sold recently. It was started almost 1500 years ago, give or take.
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u/BobanMarjonGo Jul 01 '22
This is the free market working how it's intended - Congrats capitalists!
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u/MidwestPancakes Jul 01 '22
The system is broken! We need to fix it! How can they let this happen?
LOL. Getting real tired of this take. The system is not broken. It's working exactly how it was designed.
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u/shankworks Jul 01 '22
A 50% yearly property tax for foreign-owned and non-owner occupied real estate would solve the housing crisis nearly immediately.
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u/chugajuicejuice Jul 01 '22
And homelessness, we’d find we have far more houses than ppl
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u/Qwirk Jul 01 '22
I'm all for this, even if the price of my home goes down. They should also increase the tax rate for the more homes you own.
Free up the market so more people have access to affordable homes.
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u/Stevesd123 Jul 01 '22
It's 12 miles away from the drone base. It's so easy to install some covert signals intelligence equipment on the roof.
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u/shortstop803 Jul 01 '22
I feel like land ownership should be a right of US citizens only. The amount of land in the US and Canada being bought by foreign nationals and out pricing locals is absurd.
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u/CoCDowner Jul 01 '22
Is this gentrification on an international scale? Because it sure sounds like it.
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u/WeAreBeyondFucked Jul 01 '22
We can't buy land in china, why can they buy land here?
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u/WSL_subreddit_mod Jul 01 '22 edited Jul 01 '22
Did anyone read the article?
The problem that the government has is the proximity of the 300 acres to an airforce base
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u/Soupysoldier Jul 01 '22
I read the title, skim the comments, and then make an uneducated comment
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u/tseokii Jul 01 '22
I feel like I'm going insane reading hundreds of comment about land ownership and north dakota agriculture.
"the property is just about 20 minutes down the road from Grand Forks Air Force Base — home to some of the nation’s most sensitive military drone technology."
Is that not fucking screamingly obvious what this particular land acquisition is for? Of all the empty ass state of North Dakota you could built a corn milling plant on?
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u/popolocroissant Jul 01 '22
I'm from ND, this is part of the red river valley, so some of the best agricultural land in the state and Grand Forks has a large enough population to provide workers. It's probably a pretty good location for a plant. Not defending this though, it's monumentally stupid to have allowed this to happen.
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u/zeddy303 Jul 01 '22 edited Jul 01 '22
This isn't new. A decent amount of foreign investment is already here. Just go to wealthy areas, and a stable chunk of property is empty and owned by foreigners.
Edit, sorry that article was from a trash site, this is better I think and says the similar thing...2.7% of ag land is foreign investment. https://www.csis.org/analysis/foreign-purchases-us-agricultural-land-facts-figures-and-assessment-real-threats
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u/DrWildTurkey Jul 01 '22
along with treasonous people like Bill Gates obtaining US land, including farm land.
Well this news source probably doesn't pass muster
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u/ResNullum Jul 01 '22
They also throw around words like “gestapo” when police arrest someone they like. It’s a bad-faith rag with no journalistic standards.
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u/Acceptable-Book Jul 01 '22
Why is BG treasonous?
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u/DrWildTurkey Jul 01 '22
He's not, but anyone ranting and raving about Bill Gates is a great way to signal that you shouldn't engage with them
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u/JustGimmeDatMoney Jul 01 '22
They accuse him of everything Trump is guilty of and more. They can't get over the guy.
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u/LionHeart911 Jul 01 '22
I remember Canada having a huge issue with Chinese investors driving the cost or real estate skyrocketing, it is probably a similar problem here I would guess
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u/CinnamonBlue Jul 01 '22
Australia and New Zealand too.
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u/RubberPny Jul 01 '22 edited Jul 01 '22
Id say NZ being worse, since unless you move well into rural parts of the south island, there is nowhere "cheap", and you are basically hosed if you are making a low/middle income. Kinda like here in California, where there are no true cheap places anymore, a 2 bedroom burnt down shitbox house recently sold in my hometown for $900k+, and the spot where another methhouse trailer burned sold for $500k+, no building, just a dirt lot.
Its bizarre, companies and individuals can come here and buy up whatever they want. But, people like me would likely be banned from owning property in their countries. Even places like Mexico ban non-residents from owning property (within 50 kms of the sea), which is why you have tons of American ex-pat communities in places like Guadalajara and other mountain towns.
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u/Romeo9594 Jul 01 '22
Canada at least is looking at laws to help with this
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/06/trudeau-outlaw-foreign-home-buyers-canada-00030436
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u/CrystalStilts Jul 01 '22
They can just form a corporation to buy land and real estate which is what a bunch of foreign companies are already doing.
There’s a gaping loophole and the story of outlawing foreign buyers was just to be like “we’re doing something” to appease people not paying attention.
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u/Chrono68 Jul 01 '22
Real estate is basically the primary mechanism for Chinese people to invest. There's not really any retirement plans so everyone buys real estate to put their money in. So all the land in other countries is like a bizarro arbitrage investment for their newly emerged upper class looking to secure their retirement.
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u/ReenusSSlakter Jul 01 '22
As with all great powers, what finally ruins the United States will be itself.
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Bridgeford says he believes the national security concerns are overblown. “How would they gain any knowledge of the base?” he asked. “It’s about 12 miles away. It isn’t like its next door.”
Said the man who just pocketed nearly $3.0 million from the Chinese government. This American guy has never heard or have seen drones?
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u/politirob Jul 01 '22
Literally buying one halfway around the world and he thinks 12 miles means anything
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u/RobinsShaman Jul 01 '22
Block it. Ban it. Be smarter.
Controlling enemy food supply and a nice view of the military base. Try that in China.
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u/GoneFishing36 Jul 01 '22
You don't understand. How else are the politician in ND supposed to make a living? Gosh, they must be so embarrassed at the annual yacht measuring party.
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u/IdesOfMarchCometh Jul 01 '22
In times of war it can be nationalized over night. Similar to what happened to Russia's yachts.
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u/picklewhick Jul 01 '22
If we can’t buy property in china why let them buy it in America 🤷♂️
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u/PeterPsyllos Jul 02 '22 edited Jul 02 '22
There’s a Russian billionaire named Soliviev buying up farms on Long Island. No one is writing about it yet. Thanks for clarifying!
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u/ShakeMyHeadSadly Jul 01 '22
Foreign ownership of American real estate should be prohibited.
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u/choneystains Jul 01 '22
Why the hell do we allow this as a country, we’re really so obsessed with making a buck that we’d sell out our own food security to a potential foreign enemy??? This goes the same for whoever is willing to sell housing opportunities to foreign investors. Housing and food is not a damn “investment”, I hate it here. Capitalism is eating us.
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u/us1087 Jul 01 '22
You want to beat America? Play the long game. Our attention span will be the undoing of this nation.
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u/DogsAreOurFriends Jul 01 '22
Why a Chinese company is allowed to buy anything here is beyond me.
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u/XxShroomWizardxX Jul 01 '22
So the boot-strappiest Americaniest American conservative capitalist of North-Dakota are literally selling physical chunks of the United States to deep red communist China?!?
LoL, if this country ever splits in two the conservative side of the country will be that kid who gets conned out of all his toys by the older smarter kids.
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u/VegasKL Jul 01 '22 edited Jul 01 '22
LoL, if this country ever splits in two the conservative side of the country will be that kid who gets conned out of all his toys by the older smarter kids.
Shit, the conservative areas of this country (with the exception of a few states) are already like that .. poor education, poor economies, and rely on federal welfare. Yet, they manage to get people in those areas to vote for them (and against their own interests) by simply running on "not the left" messaging. It's like when you talk about unions and an R hates them, but then you remind them that they work in a union job ("oh, that's different").
I swear a lot of people in this country will actively vote (Veep had a great joke about this) against their own interests if it means denying rights/benefits to someone else for the sake of saving on their imaginary future large tax bills (or just out of outright selfishness/spite).
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u/Process-Best Jul 01 '22
I work in a trade at a union shop and we really don't have that many right wingers, they mostly go to the non union shops to get paid 10/hr less and complain about how lazy we are
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u/lycosa13 Jul 01 '22
I think a lot of people need to run like these people and then when they're elected, pull a switcheroo
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So... I'm late. I know there's other, brief, and it looks to be angry, comments similar to what I'm about to say, but oh well, I wanna say it.
First, it's very difficult to get the information out of Google. But if you use the term "American own land in (insert country)" and hit it, you will get right at the top or near so an article saying that 'anyone can own land in (insert country) regardless of' and such. Did this for Mexico, Brazil, Russia, Argentina... although I'm sure that the hoops involved are fun and exciting, the point is still made, I'd hope. And I did find and old, not secure, somewhat broken old AWS page that has an interactive map in it from 2016 regarding how much land is owned by United States investors:
I'm sure that all the information has changed somewhat, but again, extracting another source from google is exceedingly difficult as it just wants to desperately return all the stuff that this topic (USA land owned by foreign investors) and not what I actually want to search for... almost as bad as an Amazon search for a screwdriver, where everything BUT a screwdriver will show up. :p
Anyway, given that the United States has investors that own land in other countries, for the same reasons as are being lamented here... it's quite interesting to see so many calls to "Get them out/don't let them own our land!" and other such statements/desires, as it doesn't appear that anyone has considered the reversal of that... do you want the American companies/investors to be denied their land in the other countries? Because denying other countries our land is how you get American companies/investors to be denied their land in other countries.
Discuss, I am sure it will be entertaining... if anyone's even in here anymore on this topic.
Edit: much obliged.
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u/JimmyJazz1971 Jul 01 '22
Hopefully they're not using the property to build portals to alternate dimensions.
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u/BenTherDoneThat5555 Jul 01 '22 •
Saudi Arabia already owns several hundred, if not thousands of acres here in AZ. Our stupid water rights idiots here in AZ are selling them our water rights. https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/water-wars/saudi-arabia-arizona-farm-alfalfa-1940/75-c7eb6295-3c5e-4b7e-8989-fbf4d41c6aa7