Posted on 08/18/2024 5:30:05 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The Syracuse Common Council is looking for community input before they vote to opt in or out of the state's Good Cause Eviction Law.
The policy aims to protect tenants, requiring landlords to have a legitimate reason to raise their rent or evict them. The law is mandatory in New York City, but local municipalities outside New York City have the option to adopt the policy or remain without it.
Outside Syracuse City Hall on Monday, the Syracuse Tenants Union voiced its support for Good Cause Eviction at a rally, arguing it would help more tenants stay in their homes.
"They're being evicted out of retaliation a lot of times, simply for calling code enforcement or asking for basic repairs to be made to their home. The landlords currently don't need to give a reason," explained union member Jocelyn Richards.
Richards said passing the law would be a start but some adjustments should be made locally, "That means closing something called the LLC loophole, so we want them to set a portfolio exemption at one unit. So basically a landlord that’s renting out one unit would still have to abide by Good Cause."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnycentral.com ...
Will cause rents to skyrocket as mom and pop landlords sell out and exit.
They do not even need to enact anything—if they are just talking about it the smart landlords will bail rather than risk seeing their property lose value.
harris has already stated that if she were President she would have NO PROBLEM with government seizure of patents so why would private land ownership be any different to her and her administration? “you can vote your way into communism but you can’t vote your way back out”.
It is how they force the sale of property. They make it unaffordable to own as the current owner wished.
No wonder the Indian laughed at the white man when the white man boasted about owning property.
Lesson #1 on the eve of my 18th birthday, “Avoid residential tenants.”
I have never forgotten the horror stories, and since then have seen some additional ones, suffered by friends who are (were) landlords.
As Mom put it, “First buy a pig farm, then you have a place to relocate them.”
good cause ....................YOUR NOT PAYING THE RENT, the only cause.
That doesn’t guarantee an eviction. I’ve seen judges demand that the unpaid rent be WAIVED in order to get an eviction otherwise a myriad of leftists organizations will run to the tenant’s aid prolonging the agony. Giving the non paying tenant, who is usually trashing the place, that much longer to continue to trash it, run up utility bills and the like.
Eviction records are already sealed ala Cuomo and Peekabo.
I actually screen because we completely gut rehab from the onset. The tax code punishes us for doing it this way as opposed to the lipstick on a pig approach.
I have one vacancy since April. Can’t find a qualified tenant who as a credit score above 600, clean rental record and doesn’t smoke. I’ve actually had 3 prospects out of 150 good tenants are at a PREMIUM so they can be picky and find a reason to go elsewhere.
Oh, but coming to a neighborhood near YOU! Even in solid “RED” areas. Especially if Kamalama Ding Dong gets in. She will make these laws go nationwide and make an EO to eliminate federalism.
THE TENANTS UNION””””
THAT SAYS IT ALL
YOU ARE DEALING DRUGS
YOU ARE THREATENING FEMALE TENANTS SEXUALLY
LOUD PARTIES
TRASH LEFT AROUND
I can think of many reasons to get them out
I regularly buy distressed properties, and the one reliable source of them is rental housing. You would not believe the filth I have seen. In one community I bought, over a period of five years, three different houses that had been rented by the same family. They ruined all three, and ruined three different landlords in the process. Trash heaped to the ceilings, rats, fleas, animal excrement, water damage from bathroom floods...They're not the worst, they're just typical.
Even when landlords finally get rid of the tenants, they are on the hook for repairs required by the code office. Penalties if they don't hurry up. Threats of condemnation of the place, of demolition for which the municipality will send a bill, or confiscate the property.
I spot a trashed house, locate the owner and offer him peanuts. Most are too bitter to negotiate, and grateful to be relieved of the burden. The neighbors are even more grateful.
I own a second home in Southern California; I was asked recently why I don’t rent it out by a property management employee, I told the woman “I WOULD RATHER BURN IT DOWN THAN DEAL WITH A SCUMBAG RENTER”.
Yeah that’s how we buy ‘em too. We’ve seen it all as well. However we screen to the MAX. We’ve had secret shoppers aka HUD testers call us to find out if we are “discriminating.”
I’ve had a vacancy again since April and refuse to rent it out to the 98% of dirtbags out there.
Look up LawNY.org. They want to eliminate all those reasons you listed as reason to evict. Or reasons not to rent to someone.
I play it safe and assume they are all dirtbags. I never rent out anything, I just sell it.
...And, I owner fi everything. No banks. No realtors either.
Here’s what prospective tenants can do to sell themselves to a landlord...
Consent to backround checks.
If I were a landlord, I’d give preference to anyone who volunteered.
I get their consent on their application IF they make it that far. 98% of responders don’t and get struck out using my automated prequal system. There are several “trick” questions on there to ascertain if they:
1.smoke
2. trash their current landlord
3. have a menagerie
All disqualifications.
I am also testing for cooperation so if someone gives up and doesn’t bother filling out the required forms, oh well, they probably would have been uncooperative to begin with and I don’t want those types.
yeah we don’t do banks or realtors either, but I have to ask, with the cost of building materials, how extensive are your, I’m assuming, flips?
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