Yeah but 2,000 in Canadian dollars is like what 250 in US?
Yeah but 2,000 in Canadian dollars is like what 250 in US?
The bottom line is that people have to work with each other. Landlords shouldn't be charging late fees to people in a really tough situation right now. I just find that disgusting.
We rent from a person who owns a bunch of homes in our town. We paid on time because our income is unaffected so far. We're not trying to impact our landlord who also has to pay mortgages and bills of their own. But I would hope she wouldn't screw us if we were in a tough spot.
Why do some people have such a hard time working together?
follow the money, plenty of price gouging now, will get worse
Ms of evictions, cars, houses repossessed
This is all generalization... people sometimes don't want to be in this loop of being in a place where they can't advance their career, or provide something better, and at the same time, they're stuck in it for a period of time due to innumerable reasons (having family and support around, job availability, training, etc).
Plus, we don't live forever, sometimes you have one shot at something, and sometimes you hit and sometimes you miss. Cir stances also change. Sometimes the economy isn't that great, and you have a family to support, so you have to thread lightly when making economic decisions that impact that.
When you're young and single, a lot of times that doesn't matter at all. When you have additional responsibilities, and you have to make decisions in a consensual manner, it's a different level of complexity. I mean, families brake apart for some of these decisions.
And yeah, I also came to the US with a bag on my shoulder, and not much more, but while I made it through and moved up, and I could probably do it again, that's not the place I want to be again, especially with a family now, and I work hard so that doesn't happen.
ignoring an awful lot of context there
We live in a divisive and prideful society where compromise is nearly impossible.
What's the saying? A good compromise leaves both parties upset? People with the mentality of " my landlord, they evil" are stuck there.
With the endless fear mongering of the media, lack of concrete and long-term security from the government and the realization setting in, they feel victimized tho it's no fault of the landlord so they lack the perspective of "oh , this dude is in the same situation as me" let alone the realization the landlord has far more to lose.
Yeah I'm losing money here.
If we could properly answer that we'd all have no problem getting toilet paper and hand sanitizer
It has to do with that dysfunctional part of the American psyche that believes your successes and failures are yours alone. I like individualism, but we fetishize it to a pathological degree and think every person is an island unto themselves who is fully responsible for their successes and failures, i.e. "the bootstrap myth." And this is probably why Liberals and Conservatives will never, ever see eye-to-eye (especially when it comes to taxation and social programs). The former doesn't completely discount individual effort, but also recognizes that the playing field isn't "equal opportunity" for all. If you took two identical people with the same innate traits and abilities, and raised one in a Detroit ghetto and the other in an upper-class household in Grosse Point, the latter case has a huge head start on their path to achieving the "American Dream."
Conservatives think everything can just be willed into existence through hard work and "personal responsibility." Factors like luck, nepotism, cronyism, etc don't exist in their world.
I aint even gonna txt my tenants if they miss one or even 2 payments tbqh
I did text them to check on them and make sure they are ok but thats it
but if this goes over 3 months then they gotta have damn good excuses
I've worked with s who think their "success" is purely because of their "Smarts" and "skills" while being completely incompetent. , people don't even hire/promote based off merits. You see Indians only hiring Indians in whatever Indian field etc.
compassionate af hate
How so? I'm not saying landlords can't be victims, but they do at least own a property they can sell for a solid chunk if hits the fan.
yeah, especially in Austin. When I was in Philly for college, my studio apartment right off campus was $700 a month, and I was annoyed because that was a good apartment in Austin. By the time I graduated, $700 was a studio in a bad part of town. In just three or four years, the rent doubled. Income didn't double. You go from being able to support yourself working 30 hours a week while going to school to working full time, going to night classes and having no savings (though tuition plays a part there too). It's not that you decided you needed a new iPhone every month. It's that rich ers who have nothing to do with you decided Austin was a great place to live and started moving in and driving up property values.
Obviously the reasons way more complicated than it just being ty landlords. A lot of them felt the property-value pinch even more than renters. Renters shouldn't act en led to live where they want and not pay for it. But the desperation to paint millennials struggles as being their own faults ridiculous. I wish millennials wouldn't feed into it with movements like this.
Don't disagree with this at all. No one does it alone.
No I know, it's also the east and south side hoodrats too. They have their iphones and fresh Jordans though.
The American Dream is relative though. You don't have to get a fancy degree or climb the corporate ladder to achieve it. I'd argue my dad achieved it considering where he started and it was all through hard, manual labor.
Outside of the really expensive markets, becoming a homeowner is really not that hard. Just takes a little bit of work.
Good thing there weren't any global pandemics then, it would have been tough to do construction work from home, as will be the case for anyone following your dad's footsteps right now...
I know lots of people who are struggling to pay rent right now (not the US), most of them aren't young people living beyond their means, they are business owners with families who are on the hook for tuition despite their children not being in class, salaries despite workers not being able to work, and having to pay rent on properties with their businesses shut down, with no end in sight
It's so annoying when people use their success story to dismiss other people's problems. Also, landlords can go themselves, and I say that as someone who owns multiple properties. Land ownership is the cornerstone of all economic injustice
Trump is asking for rent deferral from Palm Beach County.
Meanwhile I'm betting Jared isn't being so nice to his tenants
What good are apts/homes unleased? How much the landlords gonna get then? They talking 10%,20% even as much as 30% unemployment. You know that equity you thought you had in your house....gone....landlords as well as everyone else is gonna have to get used to the new American economic reality. For right now, it's just service industry workers, but soon, when they can't pay their insurance, or rent, or taxes,... it will be everyone else.
We can all go down this dark abyss together, or, finance companies, banks, and leasing companies can bite the big one and give everyone 3 months no rent. Pretty simple choice from where I'm looking.
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He would've been fine. It would've had to have been a perfect storm to really knock him off his feet. Right timing (when he first brought us over and his reserves were depleted), denied unemployment, denied employment elsewhere, etc. Either way, it would've only delayed what he accomplished not stopped it.
How many of these "I'm not paying today and I'm not making it up either" losers can you honestly say were on a good path before the pandemic?
Not the people I'm referring to. There will obviously be productive members of society that are legitimately affected by this. The people you described would fall in that category, imo.I know lots of people who are struggling to pay rent right now (not the US), most of them aren't young people living beyond their means, they are business owners with families who are on the hook for tuition despite their children not being in class, salaries despite workers not being able to work, and having to pay rent on properties with their businesses shut down, with no end in sight
It's also annoying when we act like every person at the bottom of the totem pole is a victim that just fell on hard times through no fault of their own.It's so annoying when people use their success story to dismiss other people's problems. Also, landlords can go themselves, and I say that as someone who owns multiple properties. Land ownership is the cornerstone of all economic injustice
Landlords don't create the demand for housing. They just provide the supply. If everyone just carried their own weight, there'd be a lot less opportunities for landlords.
Lol there's no way anyone's giving away 3 months rent. Especially the insured banks.
Oh cool. Anecdotes.
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