[SeekAndFind]

One liberal professor takes advantage of another liberal professor.... What’s not to like?

[Red Badger]

Neocon:

A liberal that’s been mugged.................

[rlmorel]

Hahahahahahaha...HOISTED ON OWN PETARD!!!!!!

[PGR88]

Abel didn't bother to ask for references ...the fact that he was an academic was essentially good enough for her.

In my experience, so-called "Academics" are often the most narrow-minded, vicious, bureaucratic and political people you will ever meet. I believe Henry Kissinger once said - its because there's so little at stake.

[Carl Vehse]

It’s California. That’s what they voted for; that’s what they get.

[GraceG]

[ Mother Jones writes, “It’s not easy to evict someone in California… Generally that’s a good thing.” ]

Written like a idiot starbucks employee with a PhD renter and not a Landlord that has had to put up with property destroying tenets.

[Navy Patriot]

A UC-Berkeley Professor Couldn’t Evict Her Tenant Because of California’s Insane Rent Laws

Couldn't have happened to a nicer gal.

[lee martell]

This is a good article, and it uses a rather mild circumstance to illustrate the folly of that Eviction Protection Law. Believe me, it can get far worse when the renters cannot be shamed into moving, or even into discussing the issue without feigning harassment.

[donna]

Good movie:

Pacific Heights Trailer (1990)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrVtU25MSqQ

[Tennessee Nana]

Michael Keaton in Pacific Heights...

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Take the front door off, for maintenance, and they typically move out soon there after?

[tired&retired]

[arthurus]

FL: My next door neighbor took pity on a co-worker whose husband left her and somehow excluded her from their home and gave her a month's free rent in the house where heh ad not lived for some time. He had been sprucing it up to rent and was just finished with that project. The woman made a good living but at the end of the month she declined to leave, or to start paying rent. It seems there is a law that a single mother with a child cannot be evicted and the landlord is not permitted to let the utilities lapse.She got him for a year before he was able to get her out and then only because the state took her child away.

[arthurus]

FL: My next door neighbor took pity on a co-worker whose husband left her and somehow excluded her from their home and gave her a month's free rent in the house where he had not lived for some time. He had been sprucing it up to rent and was just finished with that project. The woman made a good living but at the end of the month she declined to leave, or to start paying rent. It seems there is a law that a single mother with a child cannot be evicted and the landlord is not permitted to let the utilities lapse.She got him for a year before he was able to get her out and then only because the state took her child away.

[muleskinner]

Abel told Mother Jones that she's hoping her ordeal could persuade policymakers to reform Caifornia's eviction laws.

Ridiculous. She must not be aware of what political party runs this state. There is no chance. None.

[Strac6]

No legal problem here in Florida.

In addition, I get first months, last months and two months security, and start eviction 10 days after late rent.

Also, my maintenance man is 6’ 8”, a former Bolles High School football 3-season starting lineman, and I gave him my old Glock.

No problems!

[glasseye]

I have a few units in Silicon valley.
I am VERY careful who I rent to.

[jeannineinsd]

Here in California, in 2002, I had a tenant cease paying rent. It took 6 months to evict him. He and his friends and family caused more and more damage to the property in the time the court kept granting him extensions, and I was getting no income from unit, while I still had expenses I had to meet.

With no income from the unit, I still had to pay the property’s mortgage, insurance, taxes, and water bill. I had to pay the lawyer to handle the eviction. I had to pay the sheriff to actually deliver the final eviction notice to force the family out. I had to pay the locksmith to meet the sheriff to get into the unit. Animal Control had to come get the dogs (which weren’t allowed under the lease), but I don’t think I had to pay for them.

After the sheriff finally got him out, it took a couple of months to repair the damage and then the property was SOLD! I will never again be a landlord in California.

When people complain about the high price of renting in California, I just shake my head. Landlords are taking an enormous risk, and the state laws are stacked against the property owners. Landlords have to try to get every possible dollar out of their property, as they are always running the risk of a bad tenant and months of no income to get the tenant evicted.

[Organic Panic]

The sharing economy

You can always count on liberals to wrap up communism in flowery words. Who can be against sharing?