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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How would you feel if it turns out this landlord has lost $300 a month for the last ten years but he kept renewing month to month out of compassion for his 92 year old tenant? Still want revenge?
You’re free to take her in.
why does that matter?
I dont see a problem here.
the apartment belongs to the owner.
Sad? That’s silly. She rents, she does not own the apartment.
The people who own it should decide who live in it.
That cannot be emphasized enough.
I despise the *It's legal* argument.
Wow.
I mean of course the landlord is completely within their legal rights...
But, I would certainly like to see them named, and shamed. If they are pretending to be a Christian then hopefully their entire church would ostracize them, if they own a business perhaps it could be named and boycotted.
Just because something is legal doesn’t make it right. Heartless folks who would do this should be outed so that non governmental societal good old fashioned SHAME can be brought into play.
I would not belong to a parish or congregation with a person who would do this, nor patronize any establishment they were part of- just as much my right as kicking the 102 year old lady out.
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are you joking?
Do you have any idea of how expensive it is to run a building rental in a community like that?
Month to month is a contract and if a landlord does not have his own, then it reverts to the state models .
I see a camel's nose being shoved under the edge of the tent.
the state took the right of choice of who this landlord can do business with.
therefore the landlord is exercising his right to move his daughter into what I would imagine is his lowest rent apartment.
I cannot blame him.
we did not renew a lease so our daughter could move into our townhouse rental. Not elderly, but family of 3 kids. We gave them plenty of notice.
My kids come first!
I would guess they have been waiting for a number of years now.
While it’s all legal, the civilized way for the landlord to handle this situation would be to give the old lady some help in finding another suitable and reasonably priced place.
Yep. While it may not be “nice” she has a month-to-moth lease. In that case you know that at nay time the landlord can say, no more.
Yes.
I own a rental property.
“...there are far too many baby fur seals...”
That’s right. More of ‘em than you can shake a stick at.
In a community like that??
Yes you do.
It is the almost the only way to remove someone whose low rent does not cover the skyrocketing insurance and property taxes.
Because moving on a month’s notice sucks, and sucks more when you’re 102?
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