Wouldn’t leasing or renting be more accurate depending on what’s involved and the circumstances?

  • silly goose meekah@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Well, we do have the words leasing and renting.

    The difference between owning games on steam and actually owning a game? When steam shuts down, you suddenly don’t own any games anymore.

    When you own a house, you can do whatever you want with it. If you choose to use it without utilities, you can for no extra cost. And paying taxes doesn’t really have anything to do with ownership.if anything taxes are proof of your ownership.

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      16 hours ago

      What are you talking about? “Taxes don’t have anything to do with ownership”

      Your county sends the person on the deed to the house a tax bill every year. For me, it works out to over $300 per month for a very modest house. If you have a mortgage, it’s bundled into the mortgage payments.

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          Functionally, there’s no difference. The amount they demand is based off your house’s value, and they take it away from you if you don’t pay. The label is just a detail. And it’s not a trivial cost, I inherited a small, aged, worn out house and I pay over $300/mo just to exist in it. The tax office wildly overestimated it’s value and there’s nothing I can do about it.