He needs a side hustle tbh. If he’d just drive for GrubHub than he wouldn’t need to evict!
FSS When did people get the stupid idea that landlord is supposed to be full time job?
Prediction for 2021: Tenants not paying rent to landlords will be a BIG news topic and Republican talking point in 2021. Conservatives will talk about it constantly.
Republicans will frame it as "Democrats make everyone else pay for their policies and don't take responsibility."
Democrats will blame Republicans for blocking the 2K stimulus while completely ignoring the virus is ongoing. They'll propose a special tax deduction for healthcare policies purchased through the ACA healthcare exchange, which will narrowly pass. Then they'll say "mission accomplished" and not do anything else.
Everyone always does tom cotton for this, but I know nothing about him
is he a big bad? or is it a joke
He's a Arkansas senator, that's bad enough, but that shitbag also wrote this:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protests-military.html
That will quickly become a subsidy for corporations that bought up all the houses people lost so more can be rented out.
But who the fuck else is he going to rent to during a fucking pandemic? I don’t get the hot to trot nature on evictions generally... yes, I understand that in gentrifying areas why they’d force people out the moment they can, but it’s better to have someone who is behind on rent that will probably get caught up in a year than no tenant for 6-12 months on average? Right?
When your hatred for the poor is that strong, you prioritize wrecking their lives over making profit. See: Wasting millions of dollars criminalizing homelessness instead of funding public housing. (REAL housing, not loopholes for ghouls to build condos cheaply and sell them at imposible prices)
maybe they look at it like cars. unoccupied it's like a car in a garage with the fluids removed covered in a tarp. occupied it's driving constantly putting on mileage? lol fuck that seems like the dehumanizing kind of think they might come up with down the road
Because if you don't evict, you don't have power. Eviction is coercion and that's how they make their money.
The poor baby can't sully his pristine hands with PEASANT work! Oh the indignity of it all!
How do you argue against libs who make the argument of "well the landlords need to pay their bills too". I've tried to have this argument with my Mom and it's very difficult to get my point across because she doesn't see the landlord tenant relationship as parasitic. They always try to say that landlords take care of the property but we all know that landlords hire someone else to accomplish that and will generally do the bare minimum for tenants.
The landlord made an investment, and investments come with risk. An investment is not an entitlement to an endless stream of free money. Sometimes investments go south, and the investor gets fucked -- that's the free market in action. Don't like it? What are you, some kind of commie?
On the other hand, only a barbaric, illegitimate government would force millions of its own citizens out onto the streets in winter, in a pandemic. And only a depraved, callous person would support that to artificially guarantee the returns on landlords' investments.
She would likely be angry with me for a while if I said this lol
The usual response to this is that "the landlord manages the property and deserves to earn money". They consider hiring people to do the work to be work itself unfortunately.
That they pay someone else to hire people, or that they pay someone else to do the work of maintaining the property? Because my issue is that they consider paying someone else to do the work to be work itself because they're "managing" things.
if the tenant doesn't pay rent, they don't lose the benefit of the landlord's (or more likely, their hired super's) managerial services; they lose their home. there's no way around it: landlords are leeches who want free stuff for nothing.
This is actually a nice point. They're not paying for the service, they're paying for housing.
Honestly I think you're going at it from the wrong angle. Some people have been fortunate enough to not have to deal with a bad landlord before or have people close to them that are landlords. You won't get traction with these people by coming at them with "landlords are inherently coercive" unless they already resent landlords.
Instead I think you need to hammer home that housing should be a human right, nobody should have to pay for housing. Homelessness kills people. America has more unoccupied homes than homeless people. We absolutely have the resources to house every person in the US, it is the morally correct thing to do. Evictions kill people. By not housing people, we are killing them. Get them on board with "nobody should have to pay for housing" and they will much more easily come to the idea that landlords are parasites.
Ok thank you, this is probably a good idea. I think there are a lot of people who will still object because they believe that someone deserves to make money off the homes, but it is probably an easier approach.
My bathroom is missing a towel rack and the toilet paper holder is a glued on replacement that’s falling off.
I fixed one door by adding some shims and have another to do.
