Posted on 01/31/2004 7:10:45 PM PST by GeronL
This came from the Mises.org website BTW
I didn't say that. In fact, I didn't say anything about not evicting someone who doesn't pay rent. Please reread my post.
Making a sport out of evicting someone is right up there with laughing at the blind man who walks off a bridge.
a phenomenon well-noted by many large businesses: the formation of "profit centers" and "cost centers". The workers in the cost centers are still paid well, to perform a service for the profit centers, but are valued by other means than their direct revenue brought to the bottom line.
In 20 years of property management, we have done 2 set outs. In one of the evictions, the guy had really nice stuff and nearly everything was gone as soon as we set it out. He didn't come back to ask about his things because he was in jail.
The second one, these people were experts at being evicted. They sat there and watched while our employees carried all there belongs out. When someone came by with a truck, they loaded their possessions in his truck and paid him to move their items to another apartment complex up the road. They didn't realize he was the property owners' son. He moved their things, called me and told me where they moved. I called the manager before they could sign the lease on their new apartment. She refused to let them move in.
The laws in Chicago are skewed against the landlord, the property owner, yet the landlord is the one who is gouged with property taxes. We get screwed twice by the freeloader - by the actual loss of income from them occupying a unit in the building and from the government's confiscatory tax system.
You, being from Ireland, should be very familiar with confiscatory taxes.
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