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I saw that post from 2017, where OP blames the LL for going after him in court for the unpaid rent, saying that the LL should have evicted him sooner. And now he again has not paid rent for over a year, and is blaming his landlord.
So, OP, if you really want to try to get your life back on track, do this. Ask your current landlord if he would be willing to apply together for the program to pay off back rent for those at risk of eviction, and then both do so. Then, ask if he would be willing to continue renting to you if you arranged for your rent to be direct deposited straight from your paycheck or employer, into his account, so that you never see that money. If he won't, you will need to find a new place to live, but that's going to be REALLY tough now, because all landlords are wary of renting to people just like you, who hid behind the eviction moratorium and didn't pay their rent. It's not that the LL wants to live in the unit he was renting to you - he's just saying that because it's been one of the few ways that he can evict you, and he wants you out, probably for the same reasons that the LL wanted you out in 2017.
Another possibility. See if you can afford to buy a trailer in a trailer park, and move there, in order to stop paying rent. You won't build equity, but you can take your pets with you, and it's sort of a roof over your heads. if you save like crazy and work to clean up your credit, you might be in a position to buy a house years from now. But honestly, if you haven't paid off your back rent, either on your own or through a pandemic program, your current landlord is likely to sue you in small claims court for it, and win, and you will be paying him for years, plus your credit will be horrible for years.
Those were the good old days! I bought 3 properties with no money down and cash out at closing and never got in trouble. Rented them all out to tenants then sold them couple yrs later.
Agreed, not all of us are walking financial clusterF's.
We moved on a no-doc loan with savings and no income coming in (yet, we got jobs soon after moving) and had no problems. Sold the house 4 yrs later and made money.
I wish we could do it right now, we're in an even better situation than the first time.
I'm guessing so you don't look like a newbie? Kind gesture.
Anyways, curious about why the landlord won't accept rent, unless the case has already gone to court?
In reading New England (NY) chatter from multiple sources, apparently some LLs have stated if you accept rent from the tenant or the COVID relief funds, you are resetting the eviction clock.
In reading New England (NY) chatter from multiple sources, apparently some LLs have stated if you accept rent from the tenant or the COVID relief funds, you are resetting the eviction clock.
Meaning the amount of time it takes to evict someone. This is NY I was reading about, and my grandmother and a friend's parents both had this trouble.
In reading very heated discussions in NY about accepting either money from the tenant for back payments from the COVID tenant relief, or taking the payments from the state via the COVID landlord relief funds (while using your tenant info which the tenant has to agree to provide), you are accepting that you are starting over anew and this tenant can essentially stop paying again at that point forward, and it will take another 30/60/90/120 days or whatever the processing time is to start it all over again and you cannot evict the tenant just because *back* payments have been made.
So that tenant is getting a reprieve to stop paying again is what the LLs were implying, and that's why they weren't accepting the back payment funds. They just wanted tenants out.
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