Posted on 08/15/2021 6:52:04 AM PDT by Not_Who_U_Think
For thousands of people who get evicted in metro Atlanta, a motel has often been the last chance to avoid a homeless shelter or life on the street.
But with many “extended stay” motels nearing capacity, there might not be enough room for tenants who lose their apartments when the federal moratorium on evictions comes to an end.
“I don’t see how that is not the case,” said Jennifer Yankulova, managing attorney for Legal Aid Atlanta in Cobb County. “And it was already hard to find housing here.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered a new ban on rent evictions on Aug. 3, days after a previous, pandemic-triggered ban had expired.
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A renter or two that I am aware of have used the money saved from not paying rent have made major purchases, like new cars.
Don’t forget the bigger big screen TV, cause 50” doesn’t cut it anymore
The eviction moratorium strikes at the sanctity of contract, but that train left the station on the Acela Express on Jan 20. I am no lawyer, but my reading of the Constitution seems to prohibit the states from interfering with contracts, though having the Congress do it seems like economic folly.
The most perverse thing is that many people who never missed a paycheck are telling landlords to pound salt, knowing they have no recourse. And the debt incurred is uncollectable.
One magical effect will be to discourage investment in rental housing, and to increase homelessness, a defect that will be a attributed to “capitalism” and called a market failure.
If I had a nickel for every problem caused by government and blamed on markets, I’d be a big fat filmmaker in a baseball cap.
Here is a idea so crazy it might just work.......how’s about people who rent actually pay their rent.
If they used the rent money to purchase new cars, the landlords should seize them in partial satisfaction of the debt. They will probably only recover a fraction of the actual debt, but at least it’s a start, and it may encourage other deadbeats to pay up.
Involuntary Section 8
If you have funds to pay for a motel, why didn’t you put that money towards your rent. I’m reading case after case where the renters owe thousands of dollars. Obviously there was no attempt to even pay part of the rent.
Gee, perhaps we should pay or bills before all the fun stuff.
No sympathy here.
I think those additional stipulations are actually from the state or local governments, not the Fed. But I agree, no reasonable landlord would do that for a one time shot, and I believe in Atlanta it’s only 60% of the rent currently owed as well.
“This ‘eviction moratorium’ will turn into huge problem once it ends.”
No,”This ‘eviction moratorium’ turned into a problem once it started...
Typically they get behind at current place, realize the end is coming no matter what, and just stiff the last month or three and save a bit for a few weeks in a hotel/motel without much thought being given to the long term. The government stimulus and rent eviction ban has distorted this even further.
never enough free stuff
A landlord should file a negative credit report to the credit reporting agencies every month the renter fails to pay. That would or should prevent the lowlife tenant from profiting from being a deadbeat.
Guarantee that 99% have the money to pay rent. The got bro-biden handouts and spend the $$$ elsewhere. This is not about filing motel rooms, again with biden $$.
“A landlord should file a negative credit report to the credit reporting agencies...”
As a landlord I am under the impression that I have to pay $$$ to report anything to the horrible three. And I am unwilling to undergo anal verifications that they will put a ‘landlord’ through. My SSN not getting tied to any reporting.
I saw a brother attempting to load an 82” flat screen into or onto his Chrysler 200 at Costco yesterday. I’m not sure what surprised me the most, the gargantuan TV or the silly and dangerous method trying to get it into a car not fit for transporting people much less a big, big, big TV.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution should be housing people - they have a big building.
Hummm, costs money to file a report but the landlord isn’t getting paid either? And having the landlords SSN being used for reporting?
IMHO, this landlord should not be in business. He sounds like he is his own worst enemy.
Why on Earth in today’s litigious society would anyone go into the property management biz without first forming an LLC? This bizness without LLC or other protections puts that biz and their personal well-being in serious jeopardy.
No sympathy. Perhaps they should have used those covid government checks for the rent instead of big screen tvs and street drugs.
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