Landlords: Evictions cancelled due to... "cold"? (renting, tenants)

[mrboltonman]

Originally Posted by james777

I heard that Baltimore City passed a law that required landlords to take an evicted tenant's belongings to a storage unit, rather than leave them on the curb in front of the property as they used to do. Is this true? Maybe the landlord should also put the displaced tenant up for a few nights in his home.

The law that I'm aware of is that the landlord has to take the tenant's belongings to the dump.

Maybe the landlord should also wipe their ass

[royalfortune]

You don't have to store the tenant's stuff, but you can't leave it on the curb like in the good old days.

When tenants are evicted, anything they leave behind is "left behind," and you have to do something with it. Haul it off (the dump, or bulk-pickup), or sell it, or throw it away.

Just becomes a part of the clean-up cost that you then sue them for.

MC

[Tinawina]

Originally Posted by K-Luv

I lived in Minneapolis for ten years. One thing I learned from living there, and not through experience, is that it is illegal for a landlord or utility company to turn off your heat between October and May. If I recall correctly, the same goes for evictions. I am fully aware that MPLS gets a heckofalot colder than Baltimore, but, perhaps the City of Baltimore has similar law?

This.

I'm assuming they don't want a situation where newly evicted people are freezing to death in the streets in the dead of winter. I guess homeless shelters are already full. One child found frozen to death huddled next to his siblings in an alley and the city will enjoy heaps of horrible publicity. Not to mention the morality of it. So yeah.

[picardlx]

It seems to me that landlords should know the rules before they rent and if they feel they're unacceptable then they shouldn't rent. No state planner is forcing you to be a landlord.

[royalfortune]

I'm unsure if you're writing with biting satire, or actually thinking that most landlords don't know "the rules," and that if they know "the rules" and choose to be landlords anyway that they are to blame for bad political choices that make it easy for the people they do business with (ie, renters) to not keep up their end of the business agreement.

No one forces anyone to go into business. Are you in business? Who forced you? And, when your business is adversely affected by political decisions that are out of your control... is it your fault? Did you make a mistake?

I think it's satire. You are an excellent satirist.

MC

[feck]

A warm stroke of humanity
in the cold heart of a skinflint
is sometimes worth your while.

[CSD610]

Originally Posted by royalfortune

Cancelled again!

No precip, just, ya know, too cold for the delicate little sheriff.

Another weekend of free livin' in Balt City! Why pay rent at all?

I wish I could just give the house to this tenant as punishment and let the tenant pick up the tax and utility bills and ultimately foreclose. What do I need this hassle and expense for?

Amazing system, Baltimore City is.



MC

Sign a Quit Claim deed, problem solved.

[james777]

Quote:
Originally Posted by james777
I heard that Baltimore City passed a law that required landlords to take an evicted tenant's belongings to a storage unit, rather than leave them on the curb in front of the property as they used to do. Is this true? Maybe the landlord should also put the displaced tenant up for a few nights in his home.

Originally Posted by mrboltonman

The law that I'm aware of is that the landlord has to take the tenant's belongings to the dump.

Maybe the landlord should also wipe their ass

It is nice to see that you and I think alike.

I can remember the good old days when one could put the belongings in the street. Then things changed and you had to put it on the curb. Then you had to wait for the sheriff to come there to tell you where to put it as they didn't want to block the sidewalk. Then there was a bill in the city council that would have required landlords to take the tenant's stuff and put it in a storage unit for at least thirty days to be paid by the landlord. The consolation to landlords was that you could sue the tenant for the removal and storage charges. I would imagine that bill would have been pushed by the owners of storage units. from what I heard, the bill had a very good chance of passing because community leaders were constantly complaining about piles of eviction stuff littering the neighborhoods. I did not know if the bill passed or not, which is why I brought it up. I wouldn't put anything past the Baltimore City council so the landlords may have to keep a lot of toilet paper for future evictions.

[kharing]

A landlord (with a history of renting substandard apartments to the poor) was attacked and robbed last month here in Remington. It was reported to have happened in the afternoon while he walked around collecting rent.

The idiot was jacked for over $3000! This was the second time he was robbed. I would bet that the three teenage delinquents that beat him down were related to one of his tenants.

As I read your post above, reminiscing about the good old days I got the feeling you might be a slumlord....

Bragging about throwing out peoples belongings in the street?

Oh, and no one that saw the attack was able to give the police a description of the attackers.

[mrboltonman]

Promote street justice. Great job!