“Landlords entering the party were greeted with shouts of “Parasite!” and “Get a job!””
Some good news for today.Interesting, I never want to be a landlord, because it seems like way too much work and risk. I’ve heard some stories and it makes me want to stay far away.
I feel like a lot of problems in the US could just be solved by improving the courts. Eliminate the wait times, offer streamlined hearings, and evictions for fault, like nonpayment, could be a lot simpler.
Personally, I’d like to see some solutions that didn’t encourage Americans to be even more litigious than they already are. Not that courts can or should be eliminated, but having hyper efficient mega courts sounds terrifying.
I think it makes sense to do what it takes to make sure that trials can start quickly, and you aren’t waiting months or years for your trial to begin.
I don’t know much about the legal system, but I have to assume a lot of that is because the courts are busy and there are only so many judges. That isn’t a job where I want them to lower the bar to allow more people in who wouldn’t normally be considered.
Courts are only so big. So many clerks running things. I’m sure there’s more qualified candidates for judges than there are funding for those judges.
We’ve been trialing an arbitration system out here that’s rather successful.
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?
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.
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.
Chants of “See our might, see our power, landlords get no happy hour” … “Parasite!” and “Get a job!”
Love it!
About an hour into the rally, the picketers entered the venue … Witnesses said a male attendee of the BPOA event [landlord] then slapped a female TANC member [protester] in the face and pushed her.
Thuggish landlords throwing their weight around? I’m shocked. Interestingly, police who were monitoring refused to enter the venue.
No one’s profits are more important than anyone’s right to shelter. While there’ll never be justice in a world with landlords, at least there can be some nice music:
Landlords being massive pieces of shit? Well I never
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Good. The petite bourgeois need to remember that they are part of the problem.
Petit bourgeois.
It’s all French anyway. I prefer to avoid using the academic terms when possible in first place, but there really isn’t a replacement I can use in English
Little snobs? Shit head minority? Something like that comes to mind
Do you mean a room full of narcissistic people couldn’t get along?
I’m curious, are you calling all three groups narcissists?
They only read the title and thought the landlords were digging each other.
Outside the pub, tenant advocates were having conversations with passerby who disagreed with the protest. “Wouldn’t it be bad if we were celebrating landlords losing their homes?” one protester (left) said.
what a strange thing to say outside an event where landlords are celebrating being able to evict people again.
edit: i misread the article when i made this comment
Well that’s the point. It’d be bad to celebrate other human beings losing their homes.
That’s why they’re protesting outside the landlord celebration of people losing their homes again.
oh it looks like i misread it. i thought the people who disagree with the protest were saying that it’s bad to celebrate landlords losing their homes. thank you for clearing that up
Would rather know which properties these people own and work full time to ensure they are empty at all costs.
Local clerk of court website can help you with this.
If you can get their names, you can know the property they personally own.
And if they’re big enough to have a corporate name on the deed, then they will probably be registered with your secretary of state or whichever department handles business filings.
in the bay? you’re hilarious.
It’s nice to see positive news once in a while
She said she then stepped out to request the presence of the police, who had been observing the protest, but they refused to enter the pub.
Interesting… police refused to step in at the request of the landlords.
They were landlords, so no pigs were allowed inside the building.
I wondered about the wisdom of having a high profile landlord party in Berkeley, of all places. Not sure if they could have chosen a much worse place.
Which muppet thought that having a celebration party was a good idea ?
