Posted on 05/24/2019 10:00:10 AM PDT by EdnaMode
A 102-year-old Los Angeles woman is reportedly being evicted from the apartment she has lived in for 30 years to make room for the landlord’s daughter.
Thelma Smith received a 90-day eviction notice for her month-to-month lease in early March and is now relying on friends and relatives who live on the East Coast to help her find a new place to live, The Los Angeles Times reported.
The Los Angeles Rent Stabilization Ordinance says that landlords in the county can evict tenants to accommodate a relative, but they must start with the most recent resident. Smith, however, lives in unincorporated Ladera Heights where the laws are weaker. “They use this law to target long-term, low-paying tenants,” Larry Gross, the executive director for the Coalition for Economic Survival told The Times.
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Cold.
Tell her to sue. Put me on the jury. Will make sure she then owns all of the apartments.
awesome- good to see nice young caring civil landlords still around s/
Half the time it’s fake news...not sure here though.
I just found the problem.
“They use this law to target long-term, low-paying tenants,” Larry Gross, the executive director for the Coalition for Economic Survival told The Times.
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I’m sure Larry Gross will be opening his home and renting part of it to this woman for a very low, very reasonable rent. What? He won’t be doing that?
As cold and heartless as it is, it IS their property and they aren’t breaking any laws.
Do we really want government trying to write rules and regulations to somehow “fix” this?
It may be cold, and we should have sympathy for this woman but, the owner of the property has a right to earn higher rents or allow a relative to take over tenancy or bequeath the thing as part of estate planning...
Not buying this story. First she has a Month to month lease and she is getting a 3 month notice. The landlord is simply not renewing the lease and is giving a 3 month notice. That is not an eviction in any way shape or form.
This action was morally reprehensible, but I have to take the side of property rights.
People are evicted for a variety of reasons. And those reasons are valid from the perspective of the owner of the property.
Tell her to sue. Put me on the jury. Will make sure she then owns all of the apartments.
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Will you be renting a room to her?
I hear the daughter is going to line the apartment walls with baby seal fur.
It is not an eviction.
It is a month to month lease.
That means at the end of any month that any party can just not renew the lease.
If grandma wanted to be there 5 years. Then she should have signed a 5 year lease.
Wow.
I mean of course the landlord is completely within their legal rights...
But, I would certainly like to see them named, and shamed. If they are pretending to be a Christian then hopefully their entire church would ostracize them, if they own a business perhaps it could be named and boycotted.
Just because something is legal doesn’t make it right. Heartless folks who would do this should be outed so that non governmental societal good old fashioned SHAME can be brought into play.
I would not belong to a parish or congregation with a person who would do this, nor patronize any establishment they were part of- just as much my right as kicking the 102 year old lady out.
No problem. They’re in LA and it’s all liberal and, thus, loving. So it’s OK.
Zactly
What of contracts were held to this standard, even though the cost of goods continues to rise you are bound by terms you have no power to alter because the givernment has decided what you and your property are worth and places their limits on you
Waste of time. It is legal in CA to evict a tenant if the unit is required for a family member of the owner.
Happened to me.
Hope this old lady finds a good home in which to live out her remaining years.
I have no problem with this.
1st amendment protects the right of freedom of peaceful assembly. One of the reasons people assemble is for the conduct of business. In this case, rent of a property. In order to be Free to do something, you also need to be free to NOT do something.
If the landlord no longer wishes to rent to someone, they have that right. Granted there needs to be sufficient time to adjust living arrangements - a notice period. But the owner of a property gets to determine the how and why of the use of that property.
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