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Loophole in eviction moratorium lets landlords evict tenants
2021 Mar 4, 9:20am 9,781 views 48 comments
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HeadSet
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2021 Mar 4, 9:59am
HeadSet
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2021 Mar 4, 9:59am
Exactly what mentality is it that thinks it is an unfair loophole for a landlord not to renew a lease? When the lease expires, either tenant or landlord can choose not to renew. It is bad enough a tenant gets to live rent free for the duration of the lease anyway.
How about a law that says because of Covid, a tenant must continue paying rent after they move out? After all, cannot burden the landlord with a Covid caused vacancy.
“A lot of people are currently employed we find when coming to us, but they did have some kind of interruption into their income earlier on,” Mertz said. “They’ve just been playing catch up and may have been behind "
Yeah, "may" have been behind. More likely these employed folks are opportunists who think they are entitled to live at someone else's expense.
How about a law that says because of Covid, a tenant must continue paying rent after they move out? After all, cannot burden the landlord with a Covid caused vacancy.
“A lot of people are currently employed we find when coming to us, but they did have some kind of interruption into their income earlier on,” Mertz said. “They’ve just been playing catch up and may have been behind "
Yeah, "may" have been behind. More likely these employed folks are opportunists who think they are entitled to live at someone else's expense.
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2021 Mar 4, 10:24am
Ceffer
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2021 Mar 4, 10:24am
The lady that does my hair rents a space in a multi-space cosmetology building. She said the owners were getting a divorce, and the building was in contention. The building was in limbo. A lot of the cosmetologists pay their rent with a credit card. When they found out the owners were in trouble, they stopped paying their rent but still used the building. This went on for some months.
As I learned in my business, honor is not the strong suit of a high percentage of the human race.
When I had my business before, i always wondered why the utilities were high. I also wondered why I always saw the guy in the front suite, an insurance salesman, always checking the electrical box. When he moved out, somebody else renovated his suite and my utilities dropped to 40 percent of what they were before. Apparently, when they originally subdivided the suites, the electricity was combined for the two suites, and the tenants were supposed to split the bill. That guy up front just never paid his share, because he knew we weren't collecting and he never told us. He ran his air conditioning full blast all the time on my dime. The renovation separated the utilities for the two suites.
I always thought that guy was a sleaze. He also sold an employee an insurance policy that never paid out to her when she needed it.
As I learned in my business, honor is not the strong suit of a high percentage of the human race.
When I had my business before, i always wondered why the utilities were high. I also wondered why I always saw the guy in the front suite, an insurance salesman, always checking the electrical box. When he moved out, somebody else renovated his suite and my utilities dropped to 40 percent of what they were before. Apparently, when they originally subdivided the suites, the electricity was combined for the two suites, and the tenants were supposed to split the bill. That guy up front just never paid his share, because he knew we weren't collecting and he never told us. He ran his air conditioning full blast all the time on my dime. The renovation separated the utilities for the two suites.
I always thought that guy was a sleaze. He also sold an employee an insurance policy that never paid out to her when she needed it.
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RWSGFY
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2021 Mar 5, 9:53am
RWSGFY
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2021 Mar 5, 9:53am
mell says
Yep, it's basically government making you to house some deadbeats on your property. WTF? You want them housed - bring out these FEMA trailers I've paid for with my fucking taxes. Army has plenty of tents too.
It's completely unconstitutional to impose evictions moratoriums.
Yep, it's basically government making you to house some deadbeats on your property. WTF? You want them housed - bring out these FEMA trailers I've paid for with my fucking taxes. Army has plenty of tents too.
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2021 Mar 6, 8:52am
RWSGFY
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2021 Mar 6, 8:52am
HunterTits says
It's science, man.
zzyzzx saysthere is a correlation between those that still owe rent and those that are getting eviction notices.
Noooooooo shit! I am shocked!
It's science, man.
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OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) — While the federal government has continued to put a ban on evictions during the pandemic, there’s at least one loophole that is allowing landlords to evict some of their tenants, and it’s happening right here in Omaha.
Their landlord, Bill Stanek, used a loophole in the CDC’s eviction moratorium, something that was supposed to protect Williams and her boyfriend, Daniel Christian, after they lost their jobs due to the pandemic.
“We thought we were good and then we got another letter to appear in court,” Christian said. “He wasn’t asking for restitution and saying we were behind, he just terminated our lease and evicted us.”
Instead of evicting a tenant because of unpaid rent—which is not allowed—Stanek is removing renters because their leases were up and he decided not to renew them.
“It was sad to see him do that to people,” Williams said. “He got away with it and there was nobody to help.”
This exact scenario didn’t just happen to Williams and her family.
According to Scott Mertz, an attorney at Legal Aid of Nebraska, Stanek did the same thing—on the same day—to four of his tenants.
“It’s very common,” Mertz said. “We know this because of the numbers. There was a big dip in the evictions filed at the start of the CDC’s memorandum back in September and then in October, but the number of filings have crept up and up every successive month as more and more individuals are being sued for reasons not related to non-payment of rent.”
Mertz says although this loophole is legal. He’s found there is a correlation between those that still owe rent and those that are getting eviction notices.
“A lot of people are currently employed we find when coming to us, but they did have some kind of interruption into their income earlier on,” Mertz said. “They’ve just been playing catch up and may have been behind and that’s a very common experience many are having.”
Williams and Christian fall into that category. They are trying to save money to pay late bills after being in and out of work throughout the pandemic.
“Nothing has changed,” William said. “He (Stanek) just get to go around the memorandum and put us all out. I just did all this stuff from September to now with housing and I still don’t have nowhere to stay.”