Posted on 03/15/2017 10:52:12 PM PDT by Java4Jay
Known as the "first in time" rule, the mandate forces landlords to rent to the first qualified applicant, rather than choosing the best fit from among prospective tenants.
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I guarantee, I can unqualify anyone through the application process.
Yeah but either way there will be a million lawsuits and cases.
We NEVER needed congressmen at the city, state OR federal level Full Time!
They’ve got nothing to do but spend our money and pass absurd laws.
Black Lives Matter miscreants.
Fresh off the Syrian delivery bus.
they also don’t want the landlord to discount income from unemployment or welfare...
A first objectively qualified, first-served model might not sound so terrible if that same city weren’t doubtless doing a zillion things to make it harder to be in the rental market in the first place.
Sounds like that discriminates against a multitude of applicants who were not first.
Maybe an applicant works two jobs and can apply only on certain days and at certain times.
Maybe an applicant is speech impaired and postpones making the initial phone contact.
Maybe an applicant has a sick child and can't leave home.
The only fair way to do it is to accept all applications for a specified enrollment period, assign numbers to each application, then select them with randomizer software.
We used to rent houses and had a small trailer park.
It was an effing nightmare!
People would get behind in rent and it was hard to get them out.
They all seemed to have a hatred of windows because they were always breaking them.
Good point... once the illiberal “liberals” get hold of a process like this, then they forever have to keep patching it to make it “fairer.”
Why not just help the rental market to be as large as it practically can be, and then let competition do its thing. If one landlord is too pinched, others will step in to fill the vacuum.
Who would want to be a residential land lord today? When others dicitate nearly every aspect of your rental properties, is it really worth it? Then the left will wonder ehubtjrrr is no afforadable housing.
Yep.
So now soon, all the recently unemployed due to the $15.00 per hour minimum wage will have no chance of finding a place to live because the rental market will cease to exist.
Leftism is delusion but is killing people in reality.
The market will respond to this lefty “initiative”.
The risk of being a landlord has been raised by some unquantifiable amount.
That amount will have to be compensated by an increase in rents.
Ridiculously high and unaffordable Seattle rents will get a little more unaffordable.
That is what your lefty genius calls “compassion”. :-(
Of course. Communists and Progressives need to destroy the right of free association. They have almost done it, especially in the big Democrat cities.
That’s why every new apartment building constructed in my area in the last 20 years has been a high-end place where you pay a lot of money to live there.
Seattle should try that approach for hiring employees before they force that crap on private citizens.
This type of control over personal property is the basis of fascism, government control over personal property.
End the torment: make renting mandatory ...
‘This type of control over personal property is the basis of fascism, government control over personal property.”
When you see what our courts have become, you realize that perhaps President Trump’s greatest challenge is the re-making of our entire court system, starting with the SCOTUS. We will know if G-d is still on our side, if he gets to make three or four SCOTUS appointments in his first term. Furthermore, he MUST do something about the Ninth Circus. It would be very interesting to see a list delineating the ages of our Federal District and Circuit Court Judges to better understand who will be going and how their replacement will affect the balance of each and every judicial entity. Beyond that there needs to be legislation that lets the other two branches of government deal more effectively with judges who legislate from the bench.
People seem to forget that many suburban areas only exist today because of mismanagement and idiocy in the governments of the cities they surround.
Lets pass a law that allows low income housing, section8, in senator and congress peoples areas. Make is if they own any realestate that it is posted and that they to can enjoy renting to the first qualified
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