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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Good grief.
Really
Is there some moral imperative that says a person cannot earn a right and proper profit renting something they own or give it to their daughter?
No, she's not and that's the problem.
The abide by the terms of the MONTH TO MONTH lease.
Or if you are a grandma - contract law doesn’t apply?
“That is just sad. Some people have no respect for the elderly.”
While perhaps the tenant’s age should be taken into consideration, for the most part I’m with the landlord, who is following the rules imposed on him by the city. It’s his property and he should be able to do what he wants with it. And who knows, maybe his “relative” is also of advanced years. Without knowing all the circumstances, it seems that some here are jumping to conclusions. I know from experience that rent control ordinances really screw up a landlord’s ability to earn a decent return on his investment. Our daughter has been living in a rent-controlled apartment in Oakland, CA for 7 years. She’s paying less than $1,000 per month when the apartment would be rentable at about $1,600. to a new tenant. She’s getting a deal, while her landlord has his costs going up each and every year. Actually, this is the sort of problem for homeowners here in CA that Prop 13 addressed. It limits property tax increases to 2% a year on an original 1% of assessed value at the time of purchase. Having government able to “legislate” market forces is never a good thing.
She’s 102
She might find a place to live her remaining days or months.../s
Doh!
Long-term, low-paying tenants?
Sounds like some sort of rent control that the landlord is using the family loophole to get out from under?
So I guess you’re really a Democrat at heart HA!
Actually, month to month isn’t a lease at all! When you are month to month, you don’t have any contract at all!
“Tell her to sue. Put me on the jury. Will make sure she then owns all of the apartments.”
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Baloney——it’s the landlord’s property,he/she can do what they want.
Just because she’s old doesn’t matter.
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We have some closet ‘humanist’ Commies on thread who do not respect the property rights.
If I owned the place I might do the same if my kid needed housing, but I would be very nice about it. I would help her find new housing and help her move. I get that she’s 90, but she could live for another decade. I should be able to do as I wish with my property in the absence of a signed lease.
I hope so- there are far too many baby fur seals- Too many spotted owl eggs too- need to make more omelettes
I read that wrong. She’s 102, not 90. Still...
“Tell her to sue.”
For what exactly?
Ding! Rent controls have several adverse effects.
1. Why maintain the property? It’s not earning much. You may not even be able to maintain it if the rents are way way low because you have long time tenants locked in at now ridiculously low rents.
2. Why build rental property if you can’t earn a decent return thanks to rent controls? The result of this is a housing shortage.
3. You give landlords every incentive to try to get rid of long-standing renters so they can charge something approximating market price.
Blame the idiot legislators who imposed rent controls in the first place.
Wow, you’re the second Democrat on this post! You think like a DemoRAT! You would “name and shame” a man ( or possibly a woman) for following the law. Guess you’d also allow Mexican illegals to camp on your front lawn too? When I read posts like yours, I understand why Trump isn’t as popular as I hoped he’d be.
You get it!
90 days non-renewal notice on a month-to-month lease is a luxury. Most places it’s 30 days. That is one of the risks of a month-to-month lease. There is no penalty if you leave, however, your rent can be raised at anytime and the lease can get cancelled at anytime.
If the tenant was 52 and not 102 would this be the same story? It is sad for the lady, but unfortunately the landlord has the right to do this.
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