<story><title>Worst Roommate Ever</title><url>https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/jamison-bachman-worst-roommate-ever.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maaaats</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;I lived in mortal fear of the day one of them realised that they could just stop paying me rent, and there&amp;#x27;s nothing I can do about it whatsoever&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That is of course false. It may be a hassle, but you can absolutely to something.&lt;p&gt;And giving people housing is important, that&amp;#x27;s why the laws often favor the person renting, not the owner. The laws is a risk you have to take if you want to rent out your place. Price it into your rent. Or just don&amp;#x27;t live in &amp;quot;mortal fear&amp;quot; by not being a master tenant..</text></item><item><author>whack</author><text>The kind of tenancy laws I read in articles like these, sound absolutely idiotic. If you let someone into your home, and they aren&amp;#x27;t on the lease, you should be able to kick them out anytime they overstay their welcome. If you do sign a lease with someone, and they haven&amp;#x27;t paid their rent, you should be able to throw their stuff out and change the locks as soon as their security deposit has run itself out.&lt;p&gt;As a former master tenant who had to deal with 4 sub-tenants, I lived in mortal fear of the day one of them realised that they could just stop paying me rent, and there&amp;#x27;s nothing I can do about it whatsoever. It boggles my mind the amount of legal BS you have to wade through, just to reclaim your home from someone who thinks they are entitled to free housing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>whack</author><text>Realistically, there&amp;#x27;s nothing I can do about it because the eviction process is so long and time consuming, that by the time I finally evict the person, my lease would be over and I&amp;#x27;d be moving out anyway. After having given my roommate free housing for many months of course.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Giving people housing is important&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I agree! So let&amp;#x27;s make the government financially liable for any missed rent payments, while the eviction process is pending. After all, if providing its citizens with housing is so important, it should be the state&amp;#x27;s financial responsibility, not that of a random landlord whose contract was violated. I&amp;#x27;m all for universal basic income, but not income-appropriated-from-a-few-random-landlords.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Price it into your rent&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ah, now we get to the real rub. Everyone already does this. If you&amp;#x27;re a rich, successful individual, you have the luxury of living anywhere you want, at market prices. If you&amp;#x27;re down on your luck, but want to turn things around, you&amp;#x27;ll find that many places will refuse to accept you anyway, because the risk is too great. Or they will offer you housing at significantly higher rents, because of the additional risks involved. Either way, you&amp;#x27;re getting screwed, just because some other deadbeat thinks he&amp;#x27;s entitled to free housing at the landlord&amp;#x27;s expense.</text></comment>
<story><title>Worst Roommate Ever</title><url>https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/jamison-bachman-worst-roommate-ever.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maaaats</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;I lived in mortal fear of the day one of them realised that they could just stop paying me rent, and there&amp;#x27;s nothing I can do about it whatsoever&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;That is of course false. It may be a hassle, but you can absolutely to something.&lt;p&gt;And giving people housing is important, that&amp;#x27;s why the laws often favor the person renting, not the owner. The laws is a risk you have to take if you want to rent out your place. Price it into your rent. Or just don&amp;#x27;t live in &amp;quot;mortal fear&amp;quot; by not being a master tenant..</text></item><item><author>whack</author><text>The kind of tenancy laws I read in articles like these, sound absolutely idiotic. If you let someone into your home, and they aren&amp;#x27;t on the lease, you should be able to kick them out anytime they overstay their welcome. If you do sign a lease with someone, and they haven&amp;#x27;t paid their rent, you should be able to throw their stuff out and change the locks as soon as their security deposit has run itself out.&lt;p&gt;As a former master tenant who had to deal with 4 sub-tenants, I lived in mortal fear of the day one of them realised that they could just stop paying me rent, and there&amp;#x27;s nothing I can do about it whatsoever. It boggles my mind the amount of legal BS you have to wade through, just to reclaim your home from someone who thinks they are entitled to free housing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BrandoElFollito</author><text>&amp;gt; That is of course false. It may be a hassle, but you can absolutely to something.&lt;p&gt;It depends where. In France you are completely stuck when someone dies not pay. It can take over a year to finally kick someone out.&lt;p&gt;And this is just if he is not paying. If someone  pays, it is simply impossible. Every three years you may take back the house for your or your close family use only. You cannot sell it empty. You cannot end the contract.
You are awfully stuck.</text></comment>