• Hello_there@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    “Landlords entering the party were greeted with shouts of “Parasite!” and “Get a job!””
    Some good news for today.

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        I feel like a lot of problems in the US could just be solved by improving the courts. Eliminate the wait times, offer streamlined hearings, and evictions for fault, like nonpayment, could be a lot simpler.

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      I had to do a double take and make sure they weren’t talking about tenants… weren’t there plenty of problematic tenants who don’t pay rent because they couldn’t be evicted?

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        I was a tenured property manager when all the shit went down initially and I didn’t have a single tenant out of ~220 “take advantage” of the moratorium. I left the industry for lower paying work because of the owners’ amorality.

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        This is the same as the “welfare queen” argument. Yes, there are a few people who take advantage of something that helps many others. That doesn’t mean you stop doing it. At best, you make the system more robust.

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        There were, yeah. My neighbor tried using COVID as an excuse and ended up skipping state instead of going to court.