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Originally Posted by Gatordash
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The eviction moratorium was pretty much what everyone thought. Reports here in Las Vegas are that people just didn't pay rent for a year because they didn't have to. And now that the moratorium is up, instead of staying where they are and going through this whole government assistance program that we have heard politicians tout as necessary because these poor people couldn't pay rent due to coronovirus, they are just moving out and leaving landlords to pay for everything for the past year. The next breaking story will be when we discover that sending checks to people to do nothing makes them sit at home instead of go look for a job. Then the breaking story after that will be having a population that doesn't produce any GDP turns out to be bad and just printing money may not be the solution. |
Yup, all good points
I remember politicians like AOC seem to think that landlords are like evil money-grabbing sociopaths, and she just doesn’t seem to understand or care that landlords need rent payments from their tenants to stay in business themselves, and to keep their staff employed. AOC probably doesn’t realize that in my state in the southwest almost all apartment maintenance crews are Hispanic workers. Fuck all them right? Yeah let’s get them all laid off because AOC thinks their boss is fucking evil, because she’s a dumb bartender
I go into a lot of apartments in my job, ones that range from HUD/Section 8 ghettos to some of the nicest luxury $3000+/mo ones. I mostly go into poor apartments. I’ve seen the entire gamut of landlords, and just like any job in the USA, there are more good ones than bad ones. I’ve seen landlords that even before covid would let people stay after they’ve missed a payment. I’ve seen landlords work with people on taking whatever payment they can and rolling overdue payments into the next month. No landlord is just going to offer this, a person has to come to their office and ask for help, and then what helps them make a case for their situation is a history of reliability and no past issues
I’ve also seen the flip side, where a landlord will post an eviction notice after usually a couple missed payments. This still has to go to court; a lot of people misunderstand how evictions work and think a landlord can just change the locks or tell the police to trespass someone who has an established history of living there off the premises….nope. Police might ask the person to show them proof of residency such as a letter/bill for rent, and if they do, police tell the landlord to take them to court and then police fuck right off
The worst I ever saw was HUD housing where the landlord was completely MIA, and the apartment had like 3 kids inside where the mom showed us huge black mold sections in the kitchen and bathrooms under the sinks from damaged walls/plumbing. So yea terrible landlords exist too, but not to the degree AOC thinks they do. And even if the landlord is terrible, that doesn’t mean their staff is always terrible