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Eviction notice downloads soar after federal moratorium ends

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Re: Eviction notice downloads soar after federal moratorium ends

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Post by tehwebguy »

q1w2 wrote: post #38
HarryHirsch wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are missing that the pandemic is very much ongoing, despite the government pretending the opposite. At my institution, the semester is starting. We are serving the lower income bracket (read nursing school). Enrollment is down 20 %. This is going to have long-term consequences.

The number of nurses that are willing to quit so they aren't required to get the vaccine is insane, and I think that might be what is driving the enrollment reduction.

Just because the number is insane doesn’t mean it’s big.

Re: Eviction notice downloads soar after federal moratorium ends

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Post by bserge »

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #22

These headlines are some of the weirdest backwards stories I’ve seen lately. It’s like everyone is desperate to make this into a crisis yet reality isn’t delivering the eviction catastrophe the headline writers wanted. Obviously we’re seeing more evictions now that they’re literally not banned. That’s not news. However, this is shocking: > The rates of evictions served are approaching pre-pandemic levels in certain a…

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Re: Eviction notice downloads soar after federal moratorium ends

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Post by cyberge99 »

olivermarks wrote: post #17
HideousKojima wrote: post #10

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Unless you're suggesting that tenants should be able to live in someone else's property for free (at which point it effectively ceases to be the original owner's property) or you're referring to some wider societal problems that lead to rents being too high/tenants being too poor then I'm not really sure what problem you're referring to.

This is the old fantasy that 'landlords' (one of the most inaccurate words in the English language) lounge around extracting money from the peasants living in their properties. This mom and pop rentier idea is specious, but that is exactly what the big global corporations who are hoovering up North American properties are doing this year, under a Democrat controlled administration. Small landlords are losing not only…

What does the current administration have to do with any of this?

Greedy corporations are the problem and they’ve been doing since before the current Pres.

Re: Eviction notice downloads soar after federal moratorium ends

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Post by hermannj314 »

bdcravens wrote: post #12
wayoutthere wrote: post #8

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Not if you’re a landlord.

Landlords don't like to evict. They prefer to receive rent.

I was a landlord. I preferred to receive the rent late from someone that didn't want to be evicted.

The maximum profit is renting to someone that can barely afford to pay, but also desperately doesn't want to leave. In total, I probably made a 13th months rent each year in fees. You are leaving money on the table renting to people that can afford to pay on time.

Re: Eviction notice downloads soar after federal moratorium ends

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Post by endisneigh »

maxmamis wrote: post #63
q1w2 wrote: post #54

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As a landlord, I can tell you that the government does NOT replace ANY of the missed rent. Moreover, while many tenants have continued to pay their rent - MANY have gradually started realizing that I am unable to evict them, and have completely stopped paying rent. Moreover, they have started collaborating under the assumption that there is more protection if they do it together. Like other landlords, I have lost a t…

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I wonder why people think being a landlord is not a job.

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Post by mywittyname »

oblio wrote: post #68
q1w2 wrote: post #38

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The number of nurses that are willing to quit so they aren't required to get the vaccine is insane, and I think that might be what is driving the enrollment reduction.

That's a very strange approach to the situation, I'd say. A much safer bet is that no one wants to be doing a job where they're practically front line fighters during a war, for measly pay. I think a lot of doctors and nurses were reminded during this pandemic that unlike most other jobs, in case of major emergencies: a) they can be conscripted to work in dangerous conditions b) everyone expects them to actually do i…

> a) they can be conscripted to work in dangerous conditions

I have lots family that left direct patient care because of how terrible the job had become (pre-pandemic) and I constantly worry, if the crisis gets any worse, that they will be drafted/conscripted back into service.

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Post by djrogers »

maxmamis wrote: post #63
q1w2 wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a landlord, I can tell you that the government does NOT replace ANY of the missed rent. Moreover, while many tenants have continued to pay their rent - MANY have gradually started realizing that I am unable to evict them, and have completely stopped paying rent. Moreover, they have started collaborating under the assumption that there is more protection if they do it together. Like other landlords, I have lost a t…

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Personal attacks are not warranted here.

Also, it's quite common in the US for retired people to have a lot of their retirement savings invested in rental property.

Re: Eviction notice downloads soar after federal moratorium ends

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Post by bserge »

tjr225 wrote: post #67
PragmaticPulp wrote: post #22

These headlines are some of the weirdest backwards stories I’ve seen lately. It’s like everyone is desperate to make this into a crisis yet reality isn’t delivering the eviction catastrophe the headline writers wanted. Obviously we’re seeing more evictions now that they’re literally not banned. That’s not news. However, this is shocking: > The rates of evictions served are approaching pre-pandemic levels in certain a…

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. The current state of things appears to be that internet and media/ad revenue AI machine seem to have come together to put us in an sort of shepard tone of fear and impending doom. Pandemic, war, inflation, division, shortages, crypto, every storm has a name, everything is record breaking. I have more to be grateful for than I've ever had before, in spite of all of this some…

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Re: Eviction notice downloads soar after federal moratorium ends

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Post by II2II »

cletus wrote: post #19

I'm all for providing a social safety net in exactly the way the US doesn't. Housing (aka shelter) is a key part of that but the way the US does this is completely backwards. The government saying you can't evict someone is basically telling people they don't have to pay rent anymore regardless of need . Rent control is the same way: you can't raise the rent regardless of need . So these programs don't really help pe…

> If the government didn't want people evicted due to pandemic circumstances, what they should do is assess this on a case-by-case basis and pay the rent for people in genuine need.

The question is, did the government have the manpower to do a case-by-case assessment. One of the issues faced in Canada was getting employment insurance money out to people in a timely manner. Their approach was very much loosen the criteria and take claims at near face value until they had time to sort things out. Fortunately, the government can sort-of do that in that scenario. Unfortunately for evictions, things have to be sorted out before a person ends up homeless.

As for "f*ck landlords", I never quite understood it. Then again, I've always dealt with small landlords and usually had some form of reference for them before signing the lease.

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Post by function_seven »

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #22

These headlines are some of the weirdest backwards stories I’ve seen lately. It’s like everyone is desperate to make this into a crisis yet reality isn’t delivering the eviction catastrophe the headline writers wanted. Obviously we’re seeing more evictions now that they’re literally not banned. That’s not news. However, this is shocking: > The rates of evictions served are approaching pre-pandemic levels in certain a…

Indeed. This is like an article screeching that daytime temperatures have plummeted from 6 months ago, and are "approaching pre-summer levels in certain areas"

If a moratorium was placed on evictions, it was an obvious fact that once the moratorium were lifted, evictions would rise again. It would be unbelievably weird if that didn't happen, and the fact that they haven't rebounded (yet) to levels above "normal" is the real news here, right?

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