A UC-Berkeley Professor Couldn’t Evict Her Tenant Because of California’s Insane Rent Laws

Reason ^ | 01/03/2017 | Robby Soave

[SeekAndFind]

One liberal professor takes advantage of another liberal professor.... What’s not to like?

[Red Badger]

Neocon:

A liberal that’s been mugged.................

[T-Bird45]

Wonder if it’s going to be like the old saying about a conservative just being a liberal who’s been mugged?

[T-Bird45]

Ten seconds...a mere ten seconds for GMTA! LOL!!

[rlmorel]

Hahahahahahaha...HOISTED ON OWN PETARD!!!!!!

[PGR88]

Abel didn't bother to ask for references ...the fact that he was an academic was essentially good enough for her.

In my experience, so-called "Academics" are often the most narrow-minded, vicious, bureaucratic and political people you will ever meet. I believe Henry Kissinger once said - its because there's so little at stake.

[Carl Vehse]

It’s California. That’s what they voted for; that’s what they get.

[GraceG]

[ Mother Jones writes, “It’s not easy to evict someone in California… Generally that’s a good thing.” ]

Written like a idiot starbucks employee with a PhD renter and not a Landlord that has had to put up with property destroying tenets.

[Navy Patriot]

A UC-Berkeley Professor Couldn’t Evict Her Tenant Because of California’s Insane Rent Laws

Couldn't have happened to a nicer gal.

[livius]

Academics never think they should have to pay for anything. I remember teaching a computer class to a bunch of them once, back in the dawn of mobile devices, and they were all “too poor” to buy their own and wanted their universities to buy them. They were earning about 5 times what I was earning, many of them had subsidized housing, they had great medical care...but they still felt that somebody else should pay for everything they did.

Including the rent, of course. And if nobody else paid for it, then it was owed to them and theirs by right anyway.

[lee martell]

This is a good article, and it uses a rather mild circumstance to illustrate the folly of that Eviction Protection Law. Believe me, it can get far worse when the renters cannot be shamed into moving, or even into discussing the issue without feigning harassment.

[donna]

Good movie:

Pacific Heights Trailer (1990)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrVtU25MSqQ

[Tennessee Nana]

Michael Keaton in Pacific Heights...

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Take the front door off, for maintenance, and they typically move out soon there after?

[tired&retired]

[fhayek]

I have observed that the harder it is to get out of something, the less people are willing to get in it. Stocks are attractive because you can easily liquidate, you don’t have to go through any closing process. Same with job. If you make it hard to fire people, you will find that employers are reluctant to hire new people. Or take this case. If you can’t get rid of a bad tenant, fewer property owners are willing to rent out available space. And they wonder why there is a homeless problem.

[arthurus]

FL: My next door neighbor took pity on a co-worker whose husband left her and somehow excluded her from their home and gave her a month's free rent in the house where heh ad not lived for some time. He had been sprucing it up to rent and was just finished with that project. The woman made a good living but at the end of the month she declined to leave, or to start paying rent. It seems there is a law that a single mother with a child cannot be evicted and the landlord is not permitted to let the utilities lapse.She got him for a year before he was able to get her out and then only because the state took her child away.

[arthurus]

FL: My next door neighbor took pity on a co-worker whose husband left her and somehow excluded her from their home and gave her a month's free rent in the house where he had not lived for some time. He had been sprucing it up to rent and was just finished with that project. The woman made a good living but at the end of the month she declined to leave, or to start paying rent. It seems there is a law that a single mother with a child cannot be evicted and the landlord is not permitted to let the utilities lapse.She got him for a year before he was able to get her out and then only because the state took her child away.

[Navy Patriot]

Take the front door off, for maintenance,...

and you'll go to jail until you have it put back on.