Posted on 09/30/2023 11:05:52 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU
A D.C. landlord who tells the News4 I-Team he hasn’t been paid rent in three years will have to wait at least another four months to get a trial on evicting the tenants.
John Jones owns a single two-bedroom unit in Southeast D.C. The I-Team first met him when he complained he was missing $14,000 from a COVID-era rent relief program. City documents show a check was sent in 2021 to the tenants, and that check was cashed — but the tenants never sent the money to Jones.
He says they hadn’t paid rent for a few months before, and haven't since. He says he's now owed $46,800.
Jones waited for D.C.’s eviction moratorium to expire and months later filed an eviction petition. His first case was dismissed, he says, because the judge told him he needed to hire a lawyer. His second petition was filed this spring. Six months later, he got his first hearing, which happened Wednesday.
In court, one of the tenants, Dimonte Cosbert, told the magistrate judge he hadn’t paid rent “due to a lack of conditions. That’s one possible reason the rent wasn’t paid.”
Cosbert, who attended the hearing remotely, said the stove, outlets and smoke detectors weren’t working. The other tenant, Shandell Whren, initially called into the hearing but dropped off after Cosbert said her phone died.
Magistrate Judge Stephen Rickard told the tenant he may be able to reduce a portion of the rent due to the appliance issue and set a hearing in mid-December, three months from now.
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Landlords getting the same treatment as local businesses getting looted and having the government let the ‘criminals’ off easy.
Let’s call it, legalized ‘rent looting’. The government is on the side of the ‘looters’.
Deep State hates competition.
City documents show a check was sent in 2021 to the tenants, and that check was cashed — but the tenants never sent the money to Jones.LMAO! What the hell did they think would happen? The city government and the recipients of the payment check are members of the same tribe. LOL.
And who would be so stupid to be landlord in jungle-land anyway?
Enjoy dealing with Big Rental ya deadbeats.
more like the shiv at this point
Was Hunter Biden the tenant?
democrats hate private property so much they rushed headlong to block landlords from evicting tenants for not paying. That action was illegal because it invalidated a valid contract.
The purpose was to eliminate private property by giving it to tenants - but without ever saying the words. The landlord kept the mortgage payments, the utility bills, the insurance, the taxes, but lost the right to the use of his property.
THE ONLY RENTAL I WOULD EVER CONSIDER OWNING IS STORAGE RENTALS-—After 3 missed payments-—I can sell the contents.
Well, what’s happening in California to these mom-and-pop owners of rentals is they’re increasingly selling out to developers - who come in, renovate the property, turn it into condos and push out the original tenants who now cannot afford to live there.
The eviction moratorium was issued by the Trump administration.
I am a small time landlord and rental income has made me a little rich
Honestly at this point I might just shut off all the utilities and walk away from the place.
Rental housing thieves, commonly know as deadbeat tenants, should have an Amendment VI right to a speedy trial and eviction.
Landlord across the street threw in the towel after the last 2 tenants didn’t pay. He’s selling the property to the next sucker.
The first tenant used the rent money to put a down payment on a Mustang and he blew up the engine when they threatened repossession for non-payment. Idiots everywhere.
Dimonte, Shandell: I think I see the problem here.
Yes the Deep State authorized it and sadly, President Trump did not recognize it as a plot to wreck his presidency until much later.
pResident Pedo kept it going even though it was found unconstitutional.
Those darn Amish.
Yep the rent checks were sent to the renters not landlords which of course many never got paid. Dems wrote the bill saying renters had to pay landlords.
Whatcha bet ol dimonte broke those things.
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