NYC tenant owes $20,000 in back rent
as millions face possible eviction during
pandemic: "Can happen to anybody"
CBS News,
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
3/1/2021 1:15:32 PM
A federal moratorium on evictions runs out at the end of March, potentially forcing people who owe back rent amid the COVID-19 pandemic out of their homes. An estimated 10 million renters were behind on payment at the beginning of 2021, owing a combined $57 billion in rent and utilities. New York City resident Allilsa Fernandez said the situation has left them hanging on by a thread. Fernandez told CBS News' Jericka Duncan they owe nearly $20,000 in rent, and described the last 11 months of the pandemic as "traumatic." "I've never had an eviction issue. Never had a rent
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 3/1/2021 1:20:08 PM (No. 711500)
LOOK OUT!!!
Rent Stimulus 2021 - $1 Trillion dollars, $10 billion to cover only part of the backlog, $990 billion to Wall Street to ease their suffering.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
stablemoney 3/1/2021 1:29:03 PM (No. 711510)
You don't pay the rent, everybody gets an eviction notice. You don't have a job, find one. Can't find one, then move to where you can find one. Man up. Put on your pants, and get busy.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
SALady 3/1/2021 1:32:55 PM (No. 711514)
I feel for both sides in this. The renters are in deep trouble thanks to the fascist government officials who cost them their jobs and livelihoods due to over-reaction and Gestapo-style shutdowns over a glorified flu virus that has killed less than 0.05% of the US population!!! Of course, it hurt the most vulnerable among us, those making minimum wages, and who can't work from home (because those tables in those shut down restaurants can't be bussed from home).
But the property owners are also in deep trouble. They have mortgages payments, insurance, taxes, repairs, utilities, etc, etc, to pay to pay on these properties, while they are not getting any rent payments from their renters. They stand to be foreclosed on, and have their credit ratings destroyed, if they can't make those payments.
The government needs to get the heck out of this, and let people work again!!!!!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
justavoter 3/1/2021 1:58:44 PM (No. 711533)
There is an entire pool of investors waiting for the eviction notices and foreclosures to begin. Truth be known, I think the entire Covid 19 shutdown was encouraged for just this effect and opportunity. California passed a law that gives the State first right of refusal on any mortgage foreclosure so the State can become the Landlord.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
skacmar 3/1/2021 2:16:07 PM (No. 711547)
One thing that I do not understand: Many renters who were not working were actually making more not working by getting their State and Federal Covid Unemployment benefits. I had an ex-employee who made more in 6 months on unemployment than she made in 1 1/2 years working. Her annualized unemployment benefit would have been over $50,000 per year! If these people were collecting more in unemployment than they were actually making when they were working, why were they unable to pay their rent? Do not believe all of the sob stories. Some people are just taking advantage of this situation to get out of paying their bills! Call me mean, but I know of people who are taking advantage of this to not work and suck up as many benefits and as much money from the government for free as they can.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
planetgeo 3/1/2021 2:29:11 PM (No. 711555)
How is this not the taking of private property by the government? The landlords are ordered by the government that the renters don't have to pay rent, but the owners are not forgiven their property taxes. And when the property is foreclosed, the banks or the government take possession of the owner's property. How is this constitutional?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
chumley 3/1/2021 2:33:24 PM (No. 711560)
$20K for apartment rent? Good grief I live in a two story farm house on two acres and the payments were well under 10K a year. I wouldn't pay 20K for Buckingham Palace, let alone an apartment in that crime infested cesspool.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Nimby 3/1/2021 2:40:35 PM (No. 711566)
How about asking the "single ready to mingle" and de blatherer to pay
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 3/1/2021 4:26:30 PM (No. 711636)
Watch the debtors and connected rental owners get a big bail out.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
49 Ford 3/1/2021 5:11:40 PM (No. 711670)
# 7, that 20K is not untypical for a 2BR in that area.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 3/1/2021 7:11:48 PM (No. 711755)
**"Can happen to anybody"**
Especially anybody where an oppressive, dictatorial, leftist government that wishes to destroy the Middle Class rules.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bad-hair 3/1/2021 7:27:42 PM (No. 711765)
Can happen to anybody ??? Not me I''ve got (undisclosed amount) acreage in Texas Hill Country and you can't come here. Guess I'm missing out on the closed restaurants and silent Broadway spectacular shows. Ho Hum.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
MickTurn 3/1/2021 7:34:59 PM (No. 711778)
Most landlords take care of this by having 'problems' crop up in the unpaid apartment...
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 3/1/2021 8:28:48 PM (No. 711818)
No, it can't happen to me. I haven't rented in the last 48 years.
Homes have been paid for for decades.
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#4 Is correct. During the Obola administration when so many lost their homes to foreclosure, investors bought up houses and neighborhoods went downhill from renters.
#5 What did they do with the money ? Bought new cars. They had tax refunds about the same time.
There are millions of dollars available for renters but here they have to prove they can't pay the rent because of COVID job loss. Anybody else need help-too bad.
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Home many will ever pay the back rent and utilities? Someone is taking a bath with all these unpaid bills.