Comments by "Ficus-lovin\x27 Capybara N\x27 pals • 🌟 • 25 yrs ago" (@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago) on "Landlord arguments suck (Debunking Arguments Landlords Use to Justify Their Existence)" video.
-
Just a word about the crazy dancing betsh at first- She does NOT have the right to confiscate the personal belongings/ personal property of her tenants EVER, regardless of what she thinks she's owed. No landlord does. That is THEFT. She has the right to pursue legal or personal measures to collect unpaid rent, but that is all. It is illegal to help yourself to the physical possessions of your tenant just because you feel they owe you. THAT IS EXTORTION and that is theft. Only if the apartment is deemed abandoned, or in the case of intentionally left behind property does a LL then have the right to take possession. We definitely need that to be codified into stricter law, even though it's already technically illegal, but LLs are scandalous and get away with illegal and crooked behavior all the time.
There are actually some very shameless for-profit car towing places here in the States that will try to pull the same shit. They will claim that they have the right to hold on to your personal property until you pay their bill. It's organized crime, it's extortion, it should be grossly illegal but it's not in most places (for car lots), and they get away with it because the local Pigs are always in on it (this is true everywhere. Local tow shops would go out of business if they didn't have the local Blue bangin' hoods and Pig gangsters collecting cars for them. It's a tag-team affair). Happened to me. I was willing to give up my vehicle (it was a hoopty, no big deal) and they STILL tried not to give my personal belongings back. Talk about about non-stop grand theft! But I kept on it, I wouldn't let it go and eventually they had to relent. I kept bugging the cops, I kept threatening to bring a lawsuit, I kept harassing the business, etc etc. They actually had the gall not to feel ashamed about what they were doing and acted like there was nothing wrong with it when we spoke. When I was told I would finally be allowed to get my property it was either a person at the police station or someone from the business that said "we've decided to make a one-time exception in your case" as if they were doing me a favor. These criminals.... Amazing. I was in a small town too so this shamelessness isn't always confined to a big city. People everywhere are crooked and thugged out. Money does pretty sorry things to people.
(BTW for my friends in the States, this was Medford OR. Watch out for those criminal Talent PD filth, they have nothing better to do than try to lie in wait and snatch you for doing nothing wrong. Once they got you pulled over then they'll try to take anything and everything from you they can. Street Pigs are the devils own servants but what can you do; you can't escape the filth, they're everywhere. The US is a goddamn rotten Police State, you can't even escape these thugs in a small town. I forget the name of one of the major car tow lots but they're the one who held my vehicle. They're located on a street corner. They are definitely criminals. Pretty sure they're the biggest car tow salvage ring in town. The local corrupt judge is most likely in on it, or at least one of them is. He won't help you. He didn't help me and I had a perfect case to have my car released without pay, a false stop and a violation of my fourth amendment rights. But then at the he lied like the dog that he was and said that the cop did nothing wrong, after already admitting I was making my case, and therefore couldn't release my vehicle. Lol... you gotta love it. These judges and Pigs ALWAYS got each other's backs in their theft rackets. It is amazing. They feel NO shame.)
3
-
3
-
3
-
3
-
@joshualfalken as I said I'm not totally against landlords but you have to understand, most rental contracts today are signed under what is essentially duress. People need a place to live more than a landlord usually needs someone to occupy their space, and most people do not make great money and therefore their choices are limited in some degree. So when faced with a contract with a bunch of stipulations that they don't want and don't prefer to agree to, they really don't feel like they have a choice to say no. Same for the obscene or excessive rent many people are getting charged today. High rent is very unfair to those who are in the middle, lower middle, or lower income bracket.
I want to be fair. If a landlord conducts himself responsibly I usually don't have a problem with them. However, acting like landlords and prospective tenants come together and equal ground is disingenuous. Usually that is not true (unless the tenants are well off).
So the solution is of course to have more tenant protections, more tenant rights, fairer rules in general, and the like, so that when tenants DO sign that contract they actually are signing it out of their own free will, not under a feeling of pressure or duress, and not signing to things that they do not want but feel they don't have a choice to refuse because they need a stable place to live.
I'm happy to sign a contract where my rights and my wants matter just as much as the other party's. A truly equal contract. Right now landlords are given all the power and all the control. As a landlord no doubt this is a great deal but obviously they're not the only ones who matter. So yes, as a current tenant I do have a problem with this and this is what needs to change.
Again I'm not against considerate and responsible landlords per se but I do not feel that tenant rights and wishes are adequately protected or respected under the law right now.
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
2
-
1
-
1
-
I think that there should be two groups of housing, the not-for-profit sector and the for-profit, tho it should be strictly regulated. But I think if we simply forced a large amount of the available housing a fall under the non-profit heading we could easily solve this issue.
The truth is there are always going to be businesses and people who want to profit off others. I don't see this ever going away. We're never going to have a pure world where we all just work for each other in harmony. That would be lovely but we have to face the reality that some people rightly or wrongly just aren't built like that. All they care about is that next dollar. I'm not saying I support that, I'm not saying that our government or our laws should be built around that at all... I consider myself very left but I do recognize that not everyone is the same as I and we do live in a diverse world.
I believe there's a place for the for-profit sector including a limited amount of for-profit housing. However the majority should be not-for-profit and government provided.
I believe the solutions to our housing issues are simple but diverse. I don't think there's a one-size-fits-all model. I think multiple approaches will ensure that everyone has safe comfortable desirable housing that they can afford.
Life isn't black and white. Sometimes there have to be a multiple multi-pronged attack to a problem to fully solve it.
Effective rent control, tenant protections, landlord licensing requirements, fairer rules for tenants, a sharp increase in public housing, housing with supportive services, limits on the maximum numbers of units a private or corporate landlord can own, and a sharp increase in private but not-for-profit housing will get us to a fully housed society IMO.
I have seen a lot of great private housing in my lifetime. The only issue with it where I live is rent. Obviously the cost of a basic necessity should not be allowed to increase to set an obscene level that it is in many places now in this country. Ergo, effective rent control is needed.
Also those other things I mentioned could stand to be sharply improved as well including eviction protections and distressed renter protections.
If we can get these measures passed, and in the US, and that's a giant IF, then I believe this problem will rapidly start resolving itself.
1
-
1