LANDLORDS SUE TO END EVICTION BANS

Landlords around the U.S. have filed at least 26 lawsuits challenging the federal ban on evictions, claiming the moratorium violates their property rights and places them under undue hardship.
Seven landlords managing more than 5,000 apartments in Memphis, TN, are suing the federal government for denying them due process and pre-empting state laws.
The National Apartment Association has joined a similar suit in Georgia and another case is pending in Ohio.
The federal eviction ban was mandated by an executive order from President Trump and enacted by the CDC on 4 September under the CDC’s broad authority over public health.
Housing advocates worry that removing the ban would cause hundreds of thousands of people to become homeless in autumn and winter amid the COVID crisis.
TRENDPOST: Yesterday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo tweeted:

“The State moratorium on COVID-related residential evictions will be extended until January 1, 2021.

We must do all we can to provide stability to New Yorkers who are struggling financially so they will not be forced from their homes as a result of COVID.”

Absent from his declaration of forgiveness of rent was a moratorium on landlords’ state, city, and school taxes and their mortgages.

Comments (3)

Yup, I’m slowly having tenants default. Most are getting pay bonuses for covid; they are fully taking advantage of this…. Cities here want the taxes with the yearly increases, no penalties are being waved. I still have to pay all these occupancy taxes and mandatory inspection fees, plus all trash services. I already know my broker isn’t paying her property taxes, she’s just going to extract the equity and walk away. I stopped renting for a bit, now I’m increasing my qualification requirements on the applications.

September 30, 2020 John Sudimak

Government intervention has caused many problems and now further government intervention is causing more problems. It is time for people to stand up and tell their CON-gress person that they should “LET FREEDOM RING.” The governments reach into every aspect of our lives has gone too far. The public needs to tell them to back off, especially to demand and encourage those who believe in smaller government to run for office.

October 3, 2020 lvblasiotti

The obvious. When the landlord goes belly up the property is foreclosed and someone will have to deal with the tenants. The rent moratorium and extended unemployment benefits will ultimately end in an environment of reduced job prospects and a flood of unemployed entering the saturated market because their benefits ran out. Optimism is a positive trait until it interferes with acceptance of reality. I have to wonder how many renters are cashing their government checks and thumbing their noses at the landlord because they can. They don’t have to pay and can’t be evicted. Apartment renters in Indianapolis are very mobile as shown by the endless influx of new children each term in the public schools because their renter parents have moved to a new school district. . They will take advantage of a free month, pay for a month or two then stop, knowing that it will take months to evict them. The local Sheriff department is kept busy with evictions. A maintenance supervisor at a nice clean complex here in Indianapolis told me that on average they have to “punch out” apartments on average twice a year due to evictions and issues with tenants. The cost is enormous. The light at the end of the tunnel that they keep talking about is an oncoming freight train. The old phrase from back in the day applies nicely. Screwed, blued and tattooed.

October 3, 2020 mikelaz18@comcast.net

LANDLORDS SUE TO END EVICTION BANS

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