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She has spoken to tenants, housing organizers and the assembly member behind AB 2179- the housing relief program that protects tenants from getting evicted until June 30 while they wait on state's aid. On Wednesday, she spoke to a landlord who hasn't gotten paid in over 20 months.
In 1986, Gary R. bought his dream home in Pleasanton. A four bedroom house with a pool and a view of the mountains.
36 years later, his dream home is now an income property, but for the past 26 months he hasn't made any income.
Oh, no. This is the government literally demanding one person directly pay the living expenses of unrelated adults. We are small landlords, renting out former homes. We had one family that struggled at times to pat rent due to the wife being unable to work because the schools were closed, but they tried so we did everything we could to work with them. We had a single guy who paid not one dime even though he had his job the whole time. When the moratorium finally ended owed us over $15,000. We had his crappy immoral butt in eviction court the minute we were allowed. He seriously wanted to just start paying rent as if he didn’t owe any of that back rent. Then he wanted to work out staying in our place and slowly paying us back. I told the judge I didn’t care if it was vacant for years, no way was that guy staying in my property. They evicted him and issued a judgement against him. Then he turned around and damaged stuff on his way out. Back to court we went.
By the time the back rent, damage, and legal fees were added up he owes us over $25,000. This isn’t about class warfare, it’s about doing the right thing.
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Perhaps I missed where any investment was entitled and guaranteed to result in profitability. Maybe Gary R should have considered other financial instruments that offered less risk...
And who suffers, but the average person, who now will be charged higher rent, because "the rich" property owners are losing their shirts
And also, that will just be another property off the market if they decide renting out isn't worth the trouble anymore due to State interference. Less options, less places to live. Only the upper end people will be able to afford whatever is left out there; higher demand = higher prices. Little guy loses out, can't move closer to better work.
People will need to stay living with parents longer( which they probably should be doing if they aren't ready).
It's all just gonna slow the machine down to a crawl for awhile.
Oh, no. This is the government literally demanding one person directly pay the living expenses of unrelated adults. We are small landlords, renting out former homes. We had one family that struggled at times to pat rent due to the wife being unable to work because the schools were closed, but they tried so we did everything we could to work with them. We had a single guy who paid not one dime even though he had his job the whole time. When the moratorium finally ended owed us over $15,000. We had his crappy immoral butt in eviction court the minute we were allowed. He seriously wanted to just start paying rent as if he didn’t owe any of that back rent. Then he wanted to work out staying in our place and slowly paying us back. I told the judge I didn’t care if it was vacant for years, no way was that guy staying in my property. They evicted him and issued a judgement against him. Then he turned around and damaged stuff on his way out. Back to court we went.
By the time the back rent, damage, and legal fees were added up he owes us over $25,000. This isn’t about class warfare, it’s about doing the right thing.
And the underlying cause was due to governmental interference at the city, state and federal level, where people were locked down in their homes, forbidden from going to private businesses, except for the really large super chains like Walmart, home depot, etc... Government destroyed our economy, and then plastered band-aids on it by handing out hundreds of billions of free COVID relief money, then allowing everyone to skip their rent payments, even if they still had their jobs.
And also, that will just be another property off the market if they decide renting out isn't worth the trouble anymore due to State interference. Less options, less places to live. Only the upper end people will be able to afford whatever is left out there; higher demand = higher prices. Little guy loses out, can't move closer to better work.
People will need to stay living with parents longer( which they probably should be doing if they aren't ready).
It's all just gonna slow the machine down to a crawl for awhile.
Yes indeed, what government did to landlords is enough to convince people to get out of that market. Landlords already have a severe uphill battle. I know people who had small rental properties and got screwed over by lazy worthless freeloading tenets. Some even caused a lot of damage to the landlord's property, forcing the landlord to pay thousands of dollars to clean and renovate it, just to make it a presentable place to rent. It's like pulling teeth to evict really bad tenets. I remember a landlord in CA lowered my rent, when I told her I'd fix up her backyard, which was completely ruined and cluttered with trash and illegal chicken coups and random unfinished brick work and dead trees.
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