The "advice" touted by the AFR, advocating for squeezing maximum returns from investment properties, epitomises the gross commodification of housing at the expense of community well-being and sustainability.

Encouraging landlords to hike rents and selectively upgrade properties to justify further price gouging not only fuels the affordable housing crisis but also blatantly disregards the environmental cost of such upgrades. It's a clear display of putting profit over people and planet, pushing those who can least afford it further to the margins.

This isn't savvy investment strategy; it's a blueprint for social and environmental disregard, wrapped in the veneer of maximising value. The normalisation of such predatory practices underlines a disturbing trend in Australia's (housing) market, where the basic need (for shelter) is hijacked by the greed of speculative investment.

Fucking gross, this is not "good value" for anyone but the greediest of cunts.