Millions of Americans skipping payments as wave of defaults and evictions looms

Post by paulcole » Thu, Jun 04, 2020, 12:34 AM UTC

ianlevesque wrote: post #183

jungletime wrote: post #153

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You're very lucky. Rented to a single mother with two teenage sons. The teenage sons that decided to strip down living trees of their branches, to make bonfires for parties in the backyard. Two trees are severely damaged, and anything that was burnable in the landscape is burnt. I don't even know how to go about pricing out the damage. Insurance is paying for their rent, because the last house they lived in burned do…

These stories that come out of the woodwork every time tenants are mentioned are why I’ll never be a landlord.

Post by somewhereoutth » Thu, Jun 04, 2020, 12:36 AM UTC

staycoolboy wrote: post #182

avancemos wrote: post #13

Lockdowns are effective as tourniquets, but indefinite or long term use was never logical. There should have been more forward-thinking and pragmatic options pushed earlier. We will now see the natural repercussions of lockdown-centered policies.

I think you may have misunderstood the point of lockdowns. Lockdowns are/were intended to prevent jamming hospitals with COVID patients which would lead to non-COVID emergencies being put at risk. The idea is to lockdown an area not to STOP, but to SLOW the trickle of new patients into hospitals at a rate they can be serviced: e.g., balancing the pipeline. In anticipation of the huge surges seen in the North East US,…

Post by bitbuilder » Thu, Jun 04, 2020, 12:37 AM UTC

shock-value wrote: post #199

bitbuilder wrote: post #129

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>Is there a dashboard which shows increase in testing capacity over that same period Here's the best resource Ive found for comparing all the relevant data: http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/ Playing around with the data there, it looks like yes NC has had an increase in cases recently, but it tracks an increase in testing. Test positivity rates are about flat. It really is completely pointless to discuss…

Be careful not to swing too far the other way and assume that a flat positivity rate implies a flat actual infection rate. As states increase testing capacity, lower risk individuals will start to become part of the testing pool (e.g. those without severe symptoms, those with only fleeting contact with someone infected, those with no connection at all as part of a disease surveillance measure, etc.). Thus a flat test…

Post by amiga_500 » Thu, Jun 04, 2020, 12:39 AM UTC

mikem170 wrote: post #80

aphextron wrote: post #36

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>If there is no spike in infections within two weeks, from areas which had large public protests in the past week, can millions of Americans be helped by restarting the economy? Daily new infections have more than doubled here in North Carolina in the last two weeks since "reopening" [0]. We have had more new cases in the last two weeks (2200) than in the entire length of lockdown from March until then (2000). The de…

There are more tests than there were a month ago, and that affects how many positives are seen (by some amount). Also the increase in deaths you link to is not statistically significant, given it is in the rage of 10-30 over the course of several months in a state with 10 million people. Those numbers don't prove your point.

Post by kuzimoto » Thu, Jun 04, 2020, 12:40 AM UTC

sfj wrote: post #310

inetknght wrote: post #234

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The largest insurance claim I've had was for a little over $5k for a vehicle repair after collision while avoiding a pedestrian in the street. I'm not sure if you think that's "large" but it was very painless to do IMO.

I wasn't able to collect on insurance for “damage not due to a collision” on my motorcycle when it blew over in strong wind, because the insurance agent said, “There was a collision. When your motorcycle fell over it collided with the ground.”