Berkeley landlord association throws party to celebrate restarting evictions (San Fernando: rent, eviction)

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by GotHereQuickAsICould

This thread is nonsense.

Landlords everywhere are celebrating getting rent paid again, regardless of their political persuasion.

Welcome to the Bay Area and California forums, where any excuse to bash "libs" is pounced upon and exploited to the max for propaganda purposes. Never mind that some of the situations seized upon and thrashed around like a rabid dog with his favorite chew toy have little to do with reality. To wit:

Originally Posted by pathrunner;

People assume, assume, assume. Simply because someone owns a home in Berkeley, they're a liberal? Not only that, a mercenary liberal? Funny how conservatives are not accused of being mercenary, they're lauded for being "business-savvy".

Not everyone in Berkeley is liberal, just like where I live not everyone is arch-conservative.

[Hermit12]

Yeah, a lot of landlords are scumbags, but they shouldn't be held back from getting their rent money.

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by Hermit12

Yeah, a lot of landlords are scumbags, but they shouldn't be held back from getting their rent money.

A lot of *people* are scumbags (and a lot aren’t) … some scumbags become landlords (lots of quality people also become landlords). Everybody should get paid for services fairly provided.

[mattja]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

This. I'm surprised none of them had to sell their property. If it had been me, I'd have been forced to sell, due to the loss of income with which to pay the mortgage.

A lot of them did sell. There's reports on local Bay Area news about it.

[mattja]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

Antifa from Oakland.

"Tenant advocates."

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by mattja

A lot of them did sell. There's reports on local Bay Area news about it.

That's very sad. Thanks for that bit of news. The LL's I got to know were just average people trying to get by. They weren't big operators, certainly not slumlords ripping off students desperate for housing, and that kind of thing.

[Monello]

While I don't own any California rental properties, I will celebrate with the landlords.

The government should not be in the business of picking winners(tenants) & losers(landlords). The moratorium caused immense financial hardship to many property owners. And it went on way too long given the imagined threat. Notice that the government didn't suspend income tax collection? Car payments still had to be submitted. Utilities didn't get exempt from payment. Neither did mortgages, property tax, insurance and a bunch of other payments. So what caused rents to be some sort of sacred cow during the pandemic?

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by Monello

While I don't own any California rental properties, I will celebrate with the landlords.

The government should not be in the business of picking winners(tenants) & losers(landlords). The moratorium caused immense financial hardship to many property owners. And it went on way too long given the imagined threat. Notice that the government didn't suspend income tax collection? Car payments still had to be submitted. Utilities didn't get exempt from payment. Neither did mortgages, property tax, insurance and a bunch of other payments. So what caused rents to be some sort of sacred cow during the pandemic?

… the specter of sudden additional mass homelessness.

The moratorium did cause immense financial hardship to the LL class. Brutal.
At the same time, the pandemic shutdown caused mass hardship on renters as well.
The difference between the two classes is that the LL own equity value … renters have zip.
Not saying that makes it ok for the LL to lose equity (by selling / refinancing). Just making the observations of the circumstances. Landlords had more opportunity to ride the storm. Not fair, of course.

[sav858]

Originally Posted by pathrunner

People assume, assume, assume. Simply because someone owns a home in Berkeley, they're a liberal? Not only that, a mercenary liberal? Funny how conservatives are not accused of being mercenary, they're lauded for being "business-savvy".

Not everyone in Berkeley is liberal, just like where I live not everyone is arch-conservative.

Correct, it's probably more around 80-90%......

[Hermit12]

Originally Posted by Tulemutt

A lot of *people* are scumbags (and a lot aren’t) … some scumbags become landlords (lots of quality people also become landlords). Everybody should get paid for services fairly provided.

I saw a study ... and you are wrong.