points by lotsofpulp 1 day ago | 0 comments
I don’t see why rental agreements can’t be registered with the county like house sales are. It would also eliminate the need for squatter laws, as it would be trivial for police to pull up the county website and see who belongs in the home.
[–] zhivota 1 day ago
Americans are too privacy focused to accept this, but I could easily see a cottage industry of "registered agents" popping up around it who sign leases on behalf of individuals and shield them from public scrutiny.
Alternatively we could keep the names private. A cryptographic solution would easily serve the need of authorities verifying the right person is in a place without identification, but good luck figuring out how to ensure the tenant has their keys somehow since in the US there are zero pieces of identification you can ensure every citizen has.
[–] tmpz22 1 day ago
Are we privacy focused? Look at products like Facebook Muse, or Facebook, or Instagram, or Whatsapp, or the perv glasses, or or or
[–] wyre 1 day ago
American's seem to only care about privacy from the government, but wanting privacy from trillion dollar corporations? They keep the stock market high and provide value to their major investors and everyone's retirement accounts so obviously its fully within their rights to spy on us 24/7. /s
[–] eru 1 day ago
I think publishing your own rental contract is already legal?
(Unless the other party to the contract deliberately asks you in the contract to keep it quiet. But that's something you need to actively agree to.)
[–] lotsofpulp 19 hours ago
It’s more credible if it’s in a government database like property sales are, plus there would be a lot more pricing data.
[–] eru 5 hours ago
Governments ain't magic.
Abundance of pricing data depends on whether you make the registration mandatory more than who runs the database.
[–] nicbou 1 day ago