• Koraboros@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I had to do a double take and make sure they weren’t talking about tenants… weren’t there plenty of problematic tenants who don’t pay rent because they couldn’t be evicted?

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      1 year ago

      I was a tenured property manager when all the shit went down initially and I didn’t have a single tenant out of ~220 “take advantage” of the moratorium. I left the industry for lower paying work because of the owners’ amorality.

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      1 year ago

      This is the same as the “welfare queen” argument. Yes, there are a few people who take advantage of something that helps many others. That doesn’t mean you stop doing it. At best, you make the system more robust.

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      There were, yeah. My neighbor tried using COVID as an excuse and ended up skipping state instead of going to court.