Posted on 07/30/2020 6:10:41 PM PDT by Vendome
Some are, many are not.
You can’t pay rent? Then get out. Landlords have to pay property tax, mortgage, upkeep, utilities... and they need to make money to feed their families. Non paying tenants are not good people.
17 million people get thrown out of work because of these insane lock downs and that makes them bad people?
Typical of the Mitch McConnell attitude of many here.
40 to 50 million unemployed and underemployed (we really don’t know the true number), millions potentially homeless. Millions of new unemployment claims each week. The $600 per week brought me up to 45% of my former wages. Base Colorado unemployment (for me) was only 24% of my former wages.
Good jobs being replaced by subsistence-level McJobs. Whole industries devastated. The US is a service-oriented economy, and those jobs are either gone for good or won’t come back for many years. 60% of small businesses shut and won’t be returning (estimates vary).
I’m wondering why the attitude of some here is that we are all just to lazy to work and we are just trying to game/ cheat the system. It’s basically tough shiite, we got ours, so fsck y’all.
OK, so the landlords will be prevented from evicting them, in which case, many landlords will be foreclosed and it will be the bank evicting them.
SPELL CHECK!
It does when they sit around and accept it. If people were rising up with serious civil disobedience, these tyrants would be looking for ways to mitigate the damage, but too many people are all very comfortable getting huge unemployment checks, and being told they don’t have to pay their rent.
I have been told California is a liberal paradise.
abigkahuna wrote:
“You know...there is that old testament tradition of Jubilee Year....just have the Government declare 2020 a Jubilee Year. I don’t know how all the details would work but it makes as much sense as anything else and at least it is rooted in some sort of tradition.”
That is what keeps coming to my mind.
How did they implement it, how did they prepare for it?
Do self employed folks get social security?
I feel bad for everyone that lost their jobs and businesses.
There have been a few insensitive Richards here but, most of us understand
Good luck
Yup..Self Employed to get Social Security.
I was a landlord for almost 40 years. I don’t understand the thinking of evicting otherwise good tenants who can’t pay due to COVID.
First off, if you evict, it will take weeks to get a court date, and the judge will give the tenant another 30 days or more to vacate. Then the landlord has to disinfect and clean the unit, fix all the things that have broken that the tenant never mentioned, probably paint, and rent the unit, probably to someone who just got evicted nearby.
Crazy.
Come up with a temporary low rental amount that defrays basic expenses like utilities, insurance and taxes. Not all landlords can pull that off for long, the mortgage may not be affordable. But you have to weigh the knock-on effects of an eviction and re-rental. Banks should make deals with landlords for deferred payments, as banks are the absolute worst at managing foreclosed rental properties.
“Do self employed folks get social security?”
Yes.
Air travel is still only 10% of what it was.
I stayed in a hotel last night that had just 10 rooms booked out of 427 rooms. Anything associated with the travel industry is near bankruptcy. We will be bailing out industries and people for years. Either that or there will be widespread homelessness, commercial real estate collapse and worse.
I certainly would not buy a home at this moment.
The ignorance on this website is truly astonishing - forgive them because they are truly ignorant.
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