Posted on 05/07/2020 1:24:00 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Thursday that no one in the state can be evicted for not paying rent due to the coronavirus until August 20. "New York State will extend the moratorium on evictions for those facing COVID-related hardship for an additional 60 days - until August 20," he tweeted.
"The No. 1 issue that people talk to me about probably is rent, and fear about being able to pay their rent, and this just takes that issue off the table until August 20," he said at his daily coronavirus briefing.
Cuomo also said officials will ban any late-payment fees and allow renters to use their security deposits as payment.
"Everyone is just making do, and everyone has hardships, et cetera," he said. "We just want to make sure that those people who are most vulnerable are protected."
Cuomo said he doesn't know what is going to happen two or three months down the road. "But I can tell you: Whatever happens, we will handle it at the time. And that's what we've been doing with this situation all along, literally in two-week increments."
He said the state is working on relief from banks for landlords.
"There is no doubt a tradeoff between the tenant and the landlord," he said. "We are helping the landlords also, but on a human level I don't want to see people and their children being evicted at this time, through no fault of their own."
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I’m assuming there are more Republican land and rental owners than Dumocrats.
You don’t have to pay your property taxes. But if you don’t they will either take the money from your bank accounts or seize your property and sell it - or both.
Proving once again that even when you own your property, you really don’t own your property.
How about no landlord mortgages to be paid until August? As a landlord, I need the rents to pay the mortgages.
Our Republic is pretty much done with anyway. Rule of law is gone.
It would be interesting to see how this affects property vakues
I was thinking about that. And I now have a guess. LOANS Bank loans for landlords that will have to paid back. That is BS. Only a fool landlord would go even further into debt.
Since the majority legislators are Rats, they will pass whatever he wants.
... and where is the federal government? the federal courts? I know the states have autonomy under the 9th and 10th amendments, but that doesn’t include excutive orders of a governor overriding the rights held inviolate in the U.S. Constitution ... or are we learning first-hand that in a health crisis, the U.S. Constitution is only valid if the state governor says it’s valid ... and that in itself varies among the states. What happened to “equal justice under the law?”
Too bad if there power gets shut off.
No one has to pay rent until August 20? Then, few will.
I Duce has spoken.
One reason that I look forward to the end of the virus hoax is that Cuomo will be removed from the news. His talking with his hands and like a don to his henchmen is really tiring.
Only after when the rent piles up and they can’t pay it.
I think you got the picture. When people are cut off from their source of income, how do they do things like eat. The only successful people in this rent process is the lowest people on the totem pole, the renters. They have to work for a living to pay the rent normally. They will be the only ones that have an income. So the renting people won’t have to pay rent, but can’t buy food and medicine.
It’s that old slippery slope thing that liberals never can seem to understand. It’s bigger than the little guy.
But if the renter can’t pay the whole rent, can they pay any money to the cost. It’ll just drain them slowly as they can be put on a target to pay for their amenities like water, electricity, or garbage. That’s not rent, that’s costs.
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Sounds like New Yorkers need to stage another Runnymede.
The sad part of 1215 is that King John turned around and ignored all the things he agreed to in the Magna Carta.
The governor decides contract law. Got it.
The incorporated landlord will write this off as a loss against future earnings and will pay less taxes accordingly.
The landlord will request that if the tenants aren't paying the landlord, how could the city charge taxes and fees for permits for those buildings?
If the building lays off security, are the New York City Police going to cover the gap?
If it's Governor Cuomo's decision, are the New York State Police going to cover it?
Landlords will require a six month security deposit for new rentals and renewals, or raise all the rents, just in case the governor decides to give tenants six months of rent at the landlords' expense.
What about tenants of city and state buildings?
Sounds like the Quartering Act to me.
And this will lead to a chain reaction where the big fish (creditors of landlords) will eat the little fish landlords and ultimately renters because there will be new landlords who will demolish buildings because the land is worth more.
He would have felt right at home as the governor of a 21st century blue state.
An unlawful taking.
What I’d like to see is a landlord, preferably an elderly one who lives off of the rental income, file a lawsuit against the state demanding that they pay her the rent owed, which the state just took from her.
Also, this is an interference with an contract. Any contract lawyers able to comment on that issue.
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