"Landlords from Hell"; not the kind you want
Evil landlords damage own property to run off tenants: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Alleged-Landlords-from-Hell-Stuck-in-Jail.html And, the most recent update:...
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Lord Lieutenant wrote:Otherwise, why put up with the BS? Because sometimes you're just not in the mood to be #$**#$ about with. And some people need to be taught a lesson.Easiest lesson to teach is...
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Cody2 wrote: Why would you stay in a building where the land lord didn't want you?You mean let yourself be forced out of your home? Also, why is it difficult for the land lord to evict? . . .Maybe...
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Dave AAA wrote:Cody2 wrote: Why would you stay in a building where the land lord didn't want you?You mean let yourself be forced out of your home?Maybe that's were I'm seeing things differently. The...
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Cody2 wrote: The land lord never would have been nasty, as the tenants would have been gone. Of course that is all in Texas, so I guess it's a whole different shooting match.All too often, landlords...
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It's not a privilege when you're paying for it. It's your legal right as long as you're within the terms. And people can argue the pros and cons until their blue in the face the fact is what the...
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Lord Lieutenant wrote:It's not a privilege when you're paying for it. It's your legal right as long as you're within the terms. Your right ends at the end of the contract, no? After that it's your...
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Do people forget this little fact? It is not as simple as that as you know. We're talking people's homes and people tend to become quite attached to them whatever the economical reality of the...
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Dave AAA wrote:I don't know about San Francisco and California, but in Ontario where I live, a residential lease is more or less forever. San Fransisco does have a rent stabilization law. And such...
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Texas requires a cause for eviction: non-payment, destroying the property, expiration of the lease. Menacing the renter because the owner doesn't like the lease? Not acceptable.
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Of course this is the land of tolerance social paradise.
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In San Francisco, rent-controlled apartments are as prized as pieces of the True Cross. With the highest rents in the nation outside of Manhattan, long-term tenants who had their leases locked in...
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Rantttttt ON This rant is not specifically about evil/deranged landlords per se, but about the politics and vagaries of SF, and only a minor scratch... Part of SF's problem is its beholdenness to...
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Catharthism at work here! There needs to affordable rental housing. Landlords will always push their luck and their rents and at least in the UK renting is once again a burdgeoning market. And a lot...
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Why is it a problem that rent rates change? Everything else changes. Gasoline prices change daily. Milk, bread, coffee, electricity, water, just about everything changes in price. Why is it a big deal...
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Sorry, Cody, this one is long, but not as long as my preceding one, hehehe: Every major city will have people who will pay egregiously expenisve prices for a view, an altitude, or for exclusivity...
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Your missing my point daetaku. Rent control is a price controls scheme. It is has the identical effect as the old price controls on gasoline in the 1970s, or bread price controls in the USSR. In a nut...
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Cody2 wrote:1. Why is it a problem that rent rates change? Everything else changes. Gasoline prices change daily. Milk, bread, coffee, electricity, water, just about everything changes in price. Why...
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The two cities with the most stringent rent controls in the USA are New York and San Francisco. Strangely enough they are the two most expensive rental markets in the USA. A similar thing happens here...
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SF is similar to Canberra in that a lot of the land around it is zoned for farmland or "green space". That drives up prices on the rest, before you even get to the rent control lunacy.
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