Posted on 12/23/2023 5:40:02 AM PST by AbolishCSEU
We all deserve a place where we can hug our loved ones, cook, bathe, make memories, tuck our children into bed at night, and live without fear — a home. Currently in Colorado, a stable home is out of reach for people evicted by landlords without reason. As a result, each year, thousands of families facing eviction across our state are launched into a cycle of temporary housing or homelessness.
A recent point-in-time (PIT) Count conducted by the Metro Denver Homeless Initiative found the top self-reported cause of homelessness in Denver is an inability to pay rent. The number two cause is eviction.
The most immediate and devastating consequence of an eviction is a family’s loss of stable housing. Families evicted from their housing are more likely to experience first-time homelessness. As a result, it is harder for them to find or keep a job, and their chances of being institutionalized, incarcerated or visiting the emergency room dramatically increase. Even worse, children in displaced households experience poor health, developmental delays, food insecurity and inadequate care.
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This legislation will effectively kill non-renewals. I had one person recently who paid her rent late twice in a row, tried to make her own rules, refuse to obey the parking rules, complained about the good, paying tenants and called me a slumlord because A yellow jacket wasp got into her unit. I non-renewed and she basically was daring me to evict her.
She put holes in every screen of the brand new replacement windows left a bunch of junk in the house and hair clogs throughout after only 8 months of tenancy. She also held over 11 days past the non-renewal date. Had “good cause” legislation been in effect I would not have been able to non-renew.
No paying rent is no longer cause to evict?!
you have a right to housing provided your willing to work for it.
No, we don't. You deserve what you work and/or pay for. Nothing more, nothing less.
I manage a property.
First and foremost, there is no evicting without reason. Strike one.
Second, all property owners that rent have to absolutely follow the rules in the federal Fair Housing Act. No discussion. You follow or get fined big time. Strike two.
Third, if you sign a lease, it's a binding contract. Before you sign that lease, you should be reading the fine print. Maybe strike three for these authors.
Where I work (for the last 2 and a half years), we've only evicted two tenants who were behind on their rent. And I'm talking 3 months or more.
People like Mejía and Medrano should go buy property and see how it works. But that's asking too much of a leftist.
In the early part of the 2000’s I lost money in the tock market, twice. I decided that was it and put most of my stock portfolio into rental properties.
I think I made a good decision, I still have the properties and they are worth more than I paid for them, and certainly more than the value of the stocks I would have had had I not sold them. On top of that I get a good 10% or more return. I never got close to 10% in the market.
All this being said, I don’t kick out tenants for no reason. I like that that they pay me rent each month. I don’t like to have to rehab a house when they leave so the longer they stay the better for me. I doubt that I am any different than any other landlords. When a tenant moves out I often have to get new appliances, paint and replace carpet and tile floors, it gets expensive. The government already takes the equivalent of a months rent in property tax and there is another month equivalent in insurance.
If a tenant is bothering neighbors, doing something unlawful, tearing up the property or not paying rent, then yes, they will be evicted. It is a last resort. When I evict someone they often have not paid their rent for months and once you start eviction proceedings you can guarantee you will not see any more rent and the court system takes months to get put on the docket. All this can be stressful and make you want to get out of the rental business. The vast majority of renters simply live peacefully and pay their rent on time and don’t bother anybody. The last thing I would want to do is force them to move to somewhere else and let someone else collect their timely rent.
Yes but you are talking about good tenanrs most likely in red areas. These bleeding hearts are talking about protecting bad tenants in blue areas. I have a three bedroom single family house newly rehabbed for rent I have now gone through about 60 inquiries only one made the prequal and she was a no-show.
The place is in a small upstate New York Rust Belt area. Definitely not an urban hood. About 3/4 of the people are on some sort of housing assistance program almost all vape/smoke and are tatted up.
Around here property taxes and school taxes take easily 3 months of rent out of the year and that is market rate rent. That’s not even counting insurance or utilities... definitely not counting rehab or maintenance.
Literally every sentence contains a lie, illogical statement and or illusion.
“We all deserve a place where we can hug our loved ones, cook, bathe, make memories, tuck our children into bed at night, and live without fear — a home”
Yup—that is why I never wanted to be a landlord—didn’t want to have to make anyone homeless.
;-)
What’s the worst that can happen? Private rentals go away. To a central planning apparachik that is a good thing, because government housing is the only alternative they can see.
In a land of the stupid, the busiest stupid person is king. DemocRat central planners are busy as beavers on cocaine.
It appears that the left now has illegal aliens writing their propaganda for them. What did anyone ever do to deserve a free “place to go hug each other”.
I am a landlord. There is no such thing as a “no cause” eviction. I’ve put up with all kinds of shenanigans except failure to pay the rent. It all comes down to failure to pay. People who say there is no cause are lying. My most recent eviction believed I had no cause because, up until he lost his job he always, eventually paid the rent. He thought that because he would eventually get another job I should take into a account that he had paid in the past. Every time I went over during prime hunting hours he was so stoned he didn’t recognize me. Still, he told everyone I had no cause.
Forgot to mention the reason I only evict for failure to pay. A turnover costs thousands. Especially if they are bad renters. I’ve had to replace walls, doors, windows and repaint. If they stay there I can continue to collect the rent. The worse the place is the less likely they’ll complain. Some people can only live in trash. If you cleaned the place up they will instantly trash it again.
Nobody in the world “deserves” anything.
Not even the grace of God.
Who runs Colorado? It sure ain’t the Republicans.
Yep, as a landlord I know that maybe keeping the rent a hundred dollars less than what I could charge, will keep a tenant longer, and save money over the long-haul.
I never evict someone unless they are substantially behind in their rent and it’s clear that they won’t be able to catch up, and or they are creating problems for me and their neighbors. I generally do not raise rents on tenants who are good stable renters. A good stable tenant who takes care of the property is like gold.
Getting someone out is a pain and I won’t do it unless I have to.
Really..? Well, Thomas Jefferson said, “The government you elect is the government you deserve.”
If your City and or State is run by demonrats, you have no j-o-b and your living in squalor, think about that next time you go to the poles to turn in your (illegal?) vote.. :(
Your experience is similar to mine. I’ve twenty rental properties for twelve years, probably 100 different tenants in that time. I’ve never evicted anyone. In three cases, I chose not to renew the lease because they were causing problems. I’ve never had a tenant stiff me on rent.
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