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kleinbl00  ·  1547 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trump Administration Bans Evictions

Thing is, it's not a rent forbearance, it's an eviction forbearance... if you lost your job in March, and your rent is $2000 a month, and you haven't paid since April, you're in your house but you're also $10k in the hole. This adds $6k to that total. Come January you're likely evicted and also bankrupt unless something else happens.

I've been thanking my lucky stars that we don't have tenants anymore. We'd be down double digits. Except I think the way our contract was written our property manager would be eating it - the main point of hiring a property manager, from our perspective, was to have someone else deal with late rents and evictions. Which I think is true more often than not.





uhsguy  ·  1547 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I would assume that they just go bankrupt and you eat it anyway

kleinbl00  ·  1547 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah and have to fix my own washing machine. Which frankly would have meant not paying $600 for a spray-painted piece of cardboard held over a giant hole with masking tape.

I'm really enjoying not thinking about it.

mk  ·  1547 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Right. It makes more sense to use the $6k for other things. Same outcome, but you can put $6k towards fixing the car that will be your home, food, etc.

uhsguy  ·  1547 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Absolutely, though if I were a ruthless trump I would come out in November saying if I loose I’ll lift the eviction ban and then you will truly feel the blue wave in the winter outside. Abuse of power? Probably? Legal? Probably...