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102-year-old California woman evicted so landlord's daughter can move in: report
Fox News ^ | May 24, 2019 | Brie Stimson

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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To: precisionshootist

was this an apartment complex? If so, there was nooen else they could have given notice to? A Younger person or couple?


41 posted on 05/24/2019 10:24:32 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: vette6387

Legal doesn’t mean right.

I wouldn’t want to belong to any church that would have a heartless person like that as a member. Nor would I want to patronize any establishment they were part of; that is legal, too.

I said nothing about having government do jack, but societal shame is a perfectly valid mechanism for modifying behavior.

There are plenty of things that are legal and that government has no business in, that should have societal repercussions.


42 posted on 05/24/2019 10:30:20 AM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca. Deport all illegals. Abolish the DEA, IRS and ATF,.)
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No worries, compassionate Nancy ‘this is not who we are’ will take the lady into her compound rent free....


43 posted on 05/24/2019 10:33:43 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: FLT-bird
“Blame the idiot legislators who imposed rent controls in the first place.”

Rent control laws end up having the kinds of adverse effects you enumerated. We have Liberal friends who just sold their five unit Telegraph Hill building in San Francisco. They originally purchased it so that they would have a place to stay when they visited because they live in Nevada. You cannot imagine the hoops they had to go through and the years and bucks they had to “invest” in order to have an apartment in their own building. In the end, thanks to SF’s idiotic rent control ordinance, they had to sell the property because they could not afford the uncovered expenses. Each year, under RC in SF you can only raise rents 60% of what the market shows. That is a recipe for financial ruin. And yet here in this thread we have "conservatives' on the warpath against this landlord for being "un-Christian!" One guy even said he'd not belong to the same church as the landlord. As Pogo said:"We have met the enemy and he is us!"

44 posted on 05/24/2019 10:34:45 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: antidemoncrat

That is one of the risks for a month to month rental, it goes BOTH ways.

It’s sad that she’s 102 and being given the boot, but there is little recourse.


45 posted on 05/24/2019 10:36:13 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: RedStateRocker

“I said nothing about having government do jack, but societal shame is a perfectly valid mechanism for modifying behavior.”

What bothers me about your statement is the fact that you actually think this landlord deserves public shaming. You are either delusional, or you are really just a Democrat pretending to be a “religious conservative!” Might want to pick up a copy of The Constitution and read through it. The Bill of Rights too!


46 posted on 05/24/2019 10:38:00 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: Bob434
It might be a small complex. It sounds like the owner had already been accommodating to the elderly lady by going month to month. Now he is in a jam with his daughter who may not be able to pay rent at all for some reason, in other words a total loss for that unit. So he may not be able to afford to get rid of a profitable rent tenant so he is forced to take the lowest and least stable unit. Now with that in mind he could have given the women only to the end of the month but he has a heart and is giving her an additional two full months to make arrangements. This reporter should be ashamed of this slanted victim mentality tripe.
47 posted on 05/24/2019 10:43:26 AM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: Vendome

Says you !


48 posted on 05/24/2019 10:44:36 AM PDT by Churchillspirit (9/11/2001 and 9/11/2012: NEVER FORGET.)
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To: vette6387

Again, since reading comprehension doesn’t seem to be your forte, please tell my what the Constitution or bill of rights have to do with identifying and shaming people who behave disgustingly but within the law?

It is every bit as much my right to join in societal disapproval of someone doing something *I* consider heartless and disgusting as it is anybody’s right to do anything.

Your apparent general level of mental retardation keeps bringing you back to incoherence about this somehow being a legal or constitutional issue, you might try to follow along- No one said anything about using the power of government (and I sure as HELL don’t support rent control), but some things SHOULD bring shame on a person even if they are acting within their rights and the law.

If you don’t agree, fine, but don’t be such an idiot about it.


49 posted on 05/24/2019 10:45:09 AM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca. Deport all illegals. Abolish the DEA, IRS and ATF,.)
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To: precisionshootist

“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.”

+1

Add to this that she has lived in a “rent stabilized” apartment, stealing from the landlord as expenses rise every year.


50 posted on 05/24/2019 10:52:48 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: antidemoncrat

Calling Hot Bench...

Calling Judge Judy...

Calling People’s Court....

Calling Judge Mathis.......


51 posted on 05/24/2019 10:55:17 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: RedStateRocker

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.
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A little vindictive for not knowing much about the situation or the people.

This article was written with an agenda and you bit, hook, line and sinker...................................


52 posted on 05/24/2019 10:57:14 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: vette6387

I will bet you an ice cream bar that that daughter NEVER pays rent anything close to $1600 a month....

UNLESS the daughter is on Section 8 & then the taxpayers are footing 80% of that rent bill.


53 posted on 05/24/2019 10:58:05 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: precisionshootist

It seems most assume that all landlords are wealthy and all decisions are made to increase that wealth regardless of the poor tenants’ needs.

Not all who own rental properties are wealthy. My dad bought some as a long term investment and much of my childhood was spent barely getting by ourselves. There weren’t piles of cash to rely on when tenants didn’t pay or were late.

I know several people who have bought a rental property in a college town so that their kids could live there during their college years. Before and after that time, the properties were rented to others.

For all we know, this landlord bought the property years ago with the intention of having his daughter live there at this time in her life. Why should his plans for his property change? And at 102 she must have grandkids and great grandkids, why aren’t they helping an elderly family member?


54 posted on 05/24/2019 11:02:35 AM PDT by NorthstarMom
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To: EdnaMode

The guy is within the law, and it is his right as the owner. But, he is still an @sshole for kicking out an 102-year old woman so that his Law School graduating daughter has a place to stay. He (and his daughter) could have made other arrangements for whatever remaining time this woman has left on Earth.


55 posted on 05/24/2019 11:03:10 AM PDT by Mozzafiato
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To: EdnaMode

And the problem with this is???? It’s their property, not hers.


56 posted on 05/24/2019 11:09:39 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: NorthstarMom
Exactly! like another poster said this story was written with an agenda and some on here took the bait. I especially like the CYA the reporter took by disclosing the month to month status knowing full well most would still fall for it. This property owner may well have been losing his shirt on this unit for years but kept renewing out of compassion for his elderly tenant. Public shamers need to think about that for a second.
57 posted on 05/24/2019 11:11:57 AM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: EdnaMode

This would make a good “Go Fund Me” the lady could be living in nicer digs than the landlord in short order. Sweet revenge.


58 posted on 05/24/2019 11:12:15 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (A gentleman arms himself for the protection of others.)
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To: EdnaMode

I suspect the landlord is losing money on the 102 year old tenant. And he now faces the additional costs of helping his daughter pay for her housing.

Perhaps I’m wrong, but that’s what the sniff test suggests.

And so, since he doesn’t have a tree that grows money, he faces:

1. Abandoning / selling the property
2. The only other real option.


59 posted on 05/24/2019 11:16:20 AM PDT by mbarker12474
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To: precisionshootist
> This property owner may well have been losing his shirt on this unit for years but kept renewing out of compassion for his elderly tenant.

Yup. But damn him to hell anyway.

60 posted on 05/24/2019 11:17:52 AM PDT by mbarker12474
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