Some people apparently think it is just fine that renters can flip their middle fingers and not pay rent and get off scot free, and the landlords, because they are evil, just have to suck it up and take it.
Government has no problem with this point of view, because it is all in on class warfare.
The guberment wants to break the Middle Class down to poor and have to rely on the guberment to survive.
When the landlords go broke a lot of banks will too that loaned the money to the landlords. More guberment control.
See the pattern?
RE: and the landlords, because they are evil, just have to suck it up and take it.
Many Landlords have to:
1) Pay property taxes
2) Maintenance
3) Mortgages
4) Other taxes
They get their ability to pay these through the rent.
How does it help the tenants of all of these are unpaid?
Are there big numbers of people who haven’t paid rent for an entire year? I know many lost jobs due to the economic shutdown. However, between many regaining jobs and the extended unemployment/stimulus payments, aren’t the majority able to pay their rent now?
I haven’t followed this subject too closely. But are we perhaps going to see rent forgiveness happen, in which case, the landlords lose out?
When people think of landlords, they may think of big real estate companies with big apartment complexes, and deep pockets to pay all the bills even if tenants don’t pay rent. But many rental housing units are owned by investors with just a handful of properties, who depend on tenants paying rent so they in turn can pay all of the property taxes and other operating expenses on the property.
This could get ugly.
“Government has no problem with this point of view, because it is all in on class warfare.”
Ah, the good ol’ days of class warfare. Today, the left are working overtime to start a race war. (That doesn’t rule out class warfare too.)