Evicting For Dollars

Evicting for Dollars
(aka Circumventing Rent Control)

2016 by David v. GOLIATH [a-]
Back in the good old days, it used to be that good tenants were defined a bit differently
than they are today. The real landlords dominated the landscape and sought out renters who
were looking for long term residence, ones who paid their rent on time, took care of the
property, didn't cause problems for other tenants or the owner, and reported needed repairs
and other problems that required attention.
Today those people are considered the undesirables by the crooks that have taken
over most of the big apartment buildings and numerous smaller ones. They want the exact
opposite: people who will leave at the slightest provocation, give them good reason for
eviction, won't bother the owner with anything, and tend to be transient. Ideally they want
tenants that can be replaced in six months or less, tend to leave on their own, or at least will
not resist vacating when they are unhappy about anything.
Long-term renters are considered to be the trouble makers, the headaches, the
problem tenants because they stand in the way of exorbitant rent raises, deposit thefts, and
other excess profits. They also complain to appropriate agencies when repairs are neglected,
which costs the crooks even more money. In other words, they are the very people that have
to be removed to maximize the lawbreakers illegal income. That makes them the prime
targets of the Bad Unscrupulous LandLord Imposter, Embezzler & Extortionist (aka
BULLIEE.). The longer renters stay in their home, the bigger the bullseye on their backs
becomes.
These good turned bad tenants are the very people that are the most beneficial to the
neighborhoods, the real landlords, the properties, and the communities as a whole. If the
entire city was populated by them exclusively, Los Angeles would be the greatest place in the
country to live, not one of the worst and an ever increasing renters nightmare. Therefore, they
are the most valuable ones that should have the greatest protection, not the people who
should be the prime targets for eviction by the greedy BULLIEEs.
The only way renters can achieve any kind of longevity is by being good tenants in the
first place. Otherwise they wouldn't be there for long to begin with. The longer they stay in
one location, the more protection they should be entitled to receive. It ought to be harder and
harder to displace them, and the penalties should get higher and higher for phony evictions.
Instead, all a BULLIEE has to do to dump a long term undesirable is to simply file an
eviction and write in the appropriate place that the tenant was served with the proper notice,
and he wins by default because it is uncontested. How could the tenant possibly contest
anything at a court hearing that he knew nothing about? The first he finds out about it is when
he discovers that the law is coming to haul away his possessions and lock him out of his
home. This can lead to a complete disaster for many people, from family break-ups to
homelessness, and even to premature death for the disabled and elderly, who are a large
percentage of the victims.
The penalty to the crooked owner for doing this is not only non-existent, but the rewards
are that he gets everything he wants and gets clean away with it Scott free! Does that sound
like any kind of a deterrent to prevent him from repeating his crime, or more like a motivator to
continue doing it to others? Which do you think is going to be the result? Rooting out the very
best citizens is hardly the way to strengthen and stabilize communities. It doesn't exactly give
others something to look forward to, either.
The BULLIEEs claim that rent control is the biggest problem they have to deal with. But
the actual problems are the lack of enforcement with adequate penalties, excessive built-in
rent increases, insufficient coverage of the program, and the complete lack of protection for the
qualified residents who are the most subject to the abuse. That in turn continues to attract
more crooks to foul the landscape by joining the ranks of those white collar criminals. It's like
the wild and woolly Wild West here in this business, and it's only going to get worse until some
kind of positive action is undertaken to stop them.
Rent control needs to be expanded, not reduced, and it needs to grow some teeth by
way of stiff enough penalties to discourage violators from continuing to ignore it. When was
the last time a BULLIEE was ever prosecuted for circumventing rent control around here?
Ever??
The annual allowances for rent raises also need to be reduced to reflect a reasonable
cost of living for renters. The mercenary landlords complain that it doesn't cover the cost of
doing business. Yet the greatest cost to owners is their mortgages, which don't tend to
increase anywhere near the amount of permitted rent raises, if at all. The longer an owner
holds a property, the greater is the increase in their profit percentage gain from rent hikes,
especially from re-renting empty units, and there should also be strong limitations on that. The
only way they can lose that built in advantage is if their mortgage contract calls for such
increases, which would be their own fault for accepting it, so that argument doesn't hold water.
This is not even considering the appreciation value of the property itself, which likely is greater
than the amount they paid on their entire previous year's mortgage above their rent income.
The way things are now, the whole system is designed for failure, so nobody should be
surprised when it does. It was not intended to be that way, but someone forgot to consider
that, due to the human nature of greedy men's greed demons, that would happen anyway.
The point is that this problem has to be intentionally fixed because it can't naturally correct
itself. If the people in authority don't take responsibility for that and do something to fix it,
disaster will eventually occur on a much larger scale.
You can't just say The towers are still standing, so don't worry about it. If you don't
think about crossing that bridge while it is still standing, you may have noticed that when they
came down, it was a little bit too late to stop it then.
Until something is done to change this situation, it will do nothing but escalate the real
problem, which really is the ever increasing number of units held by the BULLIEEs themselves.
If the laws were such as to deny BULLIEEs the opportunity to turn illegal profits by abusing
tenants rights, the crooks would have no reason to enter this field in the first place. That is the
ONLY way this assault on our communities will ever be resolved in favor of the law abiding
citizens. As long as the meat on the table remains available for the taking, the wolves are just
going to continue to feast!

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