Cold.
Tell her to sue. Put me on the jury. Will make sure she then owns all of the apartments.
awesome- good to see nice young caring civil landlords still around s/
Half the time it’s fake news...not sure here though.
I just found the problem.
“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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I’m sure Larry Gross will be opening his home and renting part of it to this woman for a very low, very reasonable rent. What? He won’t be doing that?
As cold and heartless as it is, it IS their property and they aren’t breaking any laws.
Do we really want government trying to write rules and regulations to somehow “fix” this?
It may be cold, and we should have sympathy for this woman but, the owner of the property has a right to earn higher rents or allow a relative to take over tenancy or bequeath the thing as part of estate planning...
Not buying this story. First she has a Month to month lease and she is getting a 3 month notice. The landlord is simply not renewing the lease and is giving a 3 month notice. That is not an eviction in any way shape or form.
This action was morally reprehensible, but I have to take the side of property rights.
People are evicted for a variety of reasons. And those reasons are valid from the perspective of the owner of the property.
It is not an eviction.
It is a month to month lease.
That means at the end of any month that any party can just not renew the lease.
If grandma wanted to be there 5 years. Then she should have signed a 5 year lease.
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.
No problem. They’re in LA and it’s all liberal and, thus, loving. So it’s OK.
I have no problem with this.
1st amendment protects the right of freedom of peaceful assembly. One of the reasons people assemble is for the conduct of business. In this case, rent of a property. In order to be Free to do something, you also need to be free to NOT do something.
If the landlord no longer wishes to rent to someone, they have that right. Granted there needs to be sufficient time to adjust living arrangements - a notice period. But the owner of a property gets to determine the how and why of the use of that property.
“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.
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?
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.
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.