Evil rich landowner gets comeuppance

[Jezcoe]

@DougBH

@Jezcoe

@Ben_Natuf

so people with bad credit in maine usually fly confederate flags… hmmm

To be fair… it is kinda the same where I grew up in Virginia.

From the AP article:

Diane Yentel, CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, said in a statement.
“State and local governments are working to improve programs to distribute emergency rental assistance to those in need, but they need more time; the Supreme Court’s decision will lead to many renters, predominantly people of color, losing their homes before the assistance can reach them.”

So black people do revere the confederate flag. Good to know.

I am talking about in Maine.

The people who tend to be credit risks are also the same people who fly the Confederate Flag… In Maine… because Heritage.

[tzu]

Which skippy de dandy flitters away from the singular argument I’ve made, as usual, again, because all you people do is look to take positions against what you perceive liberals are arguing.

Something illustrated quite well in this very thread by multiples of you conservatives, so-called.

You are all now literally taking the interventionist position, arguing that a woman who allegedly was ■■■■■■ over by government - which is not actually the case, as relief was made available to her - be rescued from her bad business decisions, and through the most destructive and punitive option possible. Had she just had the sense to rent to a few people who weren’t precarious, she wouldn’t be ‘living in her car’.

Just a wee bit of the personal responsibility, right?

[DougBH]

You were also talking about Virginia.

Just thought I’d provide the opinion of someone who’s business it is to know…as an alternative.

My guess as to Maine…it has a shortage of either blacks or confederate flag wavers.

[tzu]

And ■■■■ Lewiston, Madawaska, Millinocket and Medway anyways.

[DougBH]

The courts should be open to her and everyone to exert their property rights. That is the point I have been making. Others can type for themselves.

[tzu]

You would, like the rest of the monolithic southerners and midwesterners, be guessing wrong.

[Jezcoe]

@DougBH

You were also talking about Virginia.

Just thought I’d provide the opinion of someone who’s business it is to know…as an alternative.

My guess as to Maine…it has a shortage of either blacks or confederate flag wavers.

Well… where I grew up in Virginia… the people who fly the Confederate flag these days are the types who are not prone to understanding their own history.

As for Maine… there are quite a few Somalis here… hence the Confederate flags.

[tzu]

Sure. She should have access to courts. Who is arguing otherwise?

But they don’t exist to save her from failing to do credit checks, or a ■■■■ judgment of character.

[DougBH]

@tzu

You would, like the rest of the monolithic southerners and midwesterners, be guessing wrong.

“Monolithic southerners and midwesterners”. Wow. Talk about guessing wrong.

[tzu]

If you are south of Stamford, you’re a southerner.

[tzu]

Esp. Lewiston. New England’s actual armpit, the poor sods stuck there, facing the yokels’ LePage-fed ire

[DougBH]

@tzu

Sure. She should have access to courts. Who is arguing otherwise?

But they don’t exist to save ger from failing to do credit checks, or a ■■■■ judgment of character.

You do realize that if the head of the coalition for low income housing is correct that these renters are “predominantly people of color” that the long term effect of what you are proposing is increased difficulty for those “people of color” to find affordable housing? It is the equivalent of requesting a return to redlining.

[DougBH]

@tzu

You would, like the rest of the monolithic southerners and midwesterners, be guessing wrong.

World population review 2021: Maine 94.31% white, two or more races 2.23%, black 1.38%

Texas: non Hispanic white 45.3%, black 11.8%, Asian 3.8%….

“Monolithic southerners and midwesterners”…hahahahaahahaha…

[tzu]

I don’t care about your generalizations. I am not and have not been making a point about any renters. That is a fraught estate, from go.

Nothing about the OP passes the smell test, but what stood and still stands out for me - because this is in my wheelhouse - is the claim that she is a multi-unit owner ‘sleeping in her car’.

It smells wrong, unless she is so bad at her chosen business that nature should take its course and a better owner comes along to take those units off her at a fire sale discount.

The only way all of your units are so deliquent you personally end up homeless is if you are so bad at renting you only let to junkies without references with credit scores in the low 500s.

Or, you know, an Australian owned media outlet is pushing a rile-up-the-base story about a Trump program they now want to blame on Biden…

[wiley8425]

It doesn’t pass the smell test anyway. The government hasn’t been at any time saying people don’t have to pay their rent. There was a similar offer to hold off on paying our mortgage under the same program, with the entire amount coming due at the end of six months. It wasn’t at any point in time a waiver of money that was due. All it did was postpone when it was due. And it didn’t stop the amount from racking up in the mean time. I opted out of it because I saw no point in taking advantage of it if we could just keep paying on time. I also kept working throughout the pandemic. Not everyone was so lucky.

While the national eviction moratorium prevents the loss of a home for unpaid rent, it does not forgive the rent (or unpaid fees) that is owed. It pushes the debt into the future. Once the moratorium ends, tenants are expected to pay back rent, unless they’ve come to some other agreement with their landlord.

Anyone who actually thought the moratorium was a pass to keep from paying their rent, put simply, is a ■■■■■■■ moron.

[tzu]

Right. No argument from me. If you read any of stories about her ‘plight’ except the one from a certain Aussie magnate’s business fluffer, Lacasse owns three properties and only lists one tenant in arrears. She also refers to her rental units as her personal property that she should be able to occupy as she pleases, which is not technically nor legally correct. She is only owed $23k, which I am not dismissing as insignificant, but she has multiple properties.

Further, the party failing to disburse funds is The State of New York, which has an obligation to cover this particular renter’s debt. The renter has been afflicted by covid and has an autistic son, and would be difficult to evict under even more ideal circumstances. Esp in NY.

So…

…maybe a base-riler about a VETERAN111!!!1!!!..

Or something.

[tzu]

And here’s the thing. If any of those properties, multi or not, were covered by her initial VA loan, and trebly so for the one she listed as a primary residence, she is often only obligated to provide a notice to occupy.

Subject to the vagaries of state, county and municipal statute, of course.

[Ben_Natuf]

predominantly people of color…

so all that credit checking, back ground checking and employment history stuff is just redlining.

good to know

[Ben_Natuf]

except of course for that pesky 18 month no eviction thingy

[tzu]

One tenant. The rest of the income, and the primary residence explained away how?

What 120 year dead German idealist will you fault for that?