<story><title>Millions of Americans skipping payments as wave of defaults and evictions looms</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/06/03/867856602/millions-of-americans-skipping-payments-as-tidal-wave-of-defaults-and-evictions-</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>olivermarks</author><text>I think you have a very misguided idea of what it&amp;#x27;s like to be a landlord....and perceptions of who&amp;#x2F;what &amp;#x27;landlords&amp;#x27; (a very unfortunate term) are from some tenants... no good deed goes unpunished etc. Plenty of great people around but you have to be very careful who you rent to...</text></item><item><author>tyre</author><text>&amp;gt; when things come easy to people&lt;p&gt;I think you have a very misguided idea of what it&amp;#x27;s like to live in poverty.</text></item><item><author>dmarlow</author><text>&amp;gt; if they can&amp;#x27;t pay the hundred bucks the government won&amp;#x27;t I sure don&amp;#x27;t care&lt;p&gt;I used to have this same mentality. Until the person who was renting one of my properties decided to lie about certain issues (like claiming a shampoo bottle lodged down one of the toilets was there for years). When I decided to not renew the lease with that tenant, they decided to cause considerable damage to our property.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, when things come easy to people, they don&amp;#x27;t appreciate it. Holding people accountable helps them lift themselves up too.</text></item><item><author>ngngngng</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m so extremely grateful that I accepted section 8 tenants into my rental units. Most of these tenants have nearly all of their payment covered by the government and they just have to pay $100 or $200 on top of that to cover what the government won&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;These tenants are often not accepted by landlords because they&amp;#x27;re thought to cause more issues. Mine are great. They keep the units spotless, mow the lawn for me on my multi unit properties. When I have a tenant like this, I never raise their rent, and if they can&amp;#x27;t pay the hundred bucks the government won&amp;#x27;t I sure don&amp;#x27;t care.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>esperent</author><text>For most of my adult life (now I&amp;#x27;m 34) I have spent 30-50% of any paycheck I&amp;#x27;ve received on rent.&lt;p&gt;In my country (Ireland) over the previous two generations, houses went from dirt cheap to extremely expensive. In the generation that came of age in the late 80s and early 90s, you could work a normal job and buy a house, easily. If you had a good job, you could buy several houses.&lt;p&gt;Now, my generation. We came too late. Houses now cost so much that you will be en-debted to a bank for life if you buy one. Now we have a rent crisis. For many people, they can barely even afford to rent a house and buy basics like food. Meanwhile, anyone who was lucky enough to be a bit older and smart enough to jump on the property wagon when it was cheap, they are rolling in money. They earn thousands of euros from doing essentially nothing except be born in the right generation.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s very hard not to look at them, look at the hardships of the people my age who struggle to pay rent, and not think of landlords as social parasites.</text></comment>
<story><title>Millions of Americans skipping payments as wave of defaults and evictions looms</title><url>https://www.npr.org/2020/06/03/867856602/millions-of-americans-skipping-payments-as-tidal-wave-of-defaults-and-evictions-</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>olivermarks</author><text>I think you have a very misguided idea of what it&amp;#x27;s like to be a landlord....and perceptions of who&amp;#x2F;what &amp;#x27;landlords&amp;#x27; (a very unfortunate term) are from some tenants... no good deed goes unpunished etc. Plenty of great people around but you have to be very careful who you rent to...</text></item><item><author>tyre</author><text>&amp;gt; when things come easy to people&lt;p&gt;I think you have a very misguided idea of what it&amp;#x27;s like to live in poverty.</text></item><item><author>dmarlow</author><text>&amp;gt; if they can&amp;#x27;t pay the hundred bucks the government won&amp;#x27;t I sure don&amp;#x27;t care&lt;p&gt;I used to have this same mentality. Until the person who was renting one of my properties decided to lie about certain issues (like claiming a shampoo bottle lodged down one of the toilets was there for years). When I decided to not renew the lease with that tenant, they decided to cause considerable damage to our property.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes, when things come easy to people, they don&amp;#x27;t appreciate it. Holding people accountable helps them lift themselves up too.</text></item><item><author>ngngngng</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m so extremely grateful that I accepted section 8 tenants into my rental units. Most of these tenants have nearly all of their payment covered by the government and they just have to pay $100 or $200 on top of that to cover what the government won&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;These tenants are often not accepted by landlords because they&amp;#x27;re thought to cause more issues. Mine are great. They keep the units spotless, mow the lawn for me on my multi unit properties. When I have a tenant like this, I never raise their rent, and if they can&amp;#x27;t pay the hundred bucks the government won&amp;#x27;t I sure don&amp;#x27;t care.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelmrose</author><text>&amp;gt; Plenty of great people around&lt;p&gt;No offense but bullshit.&lt;p&gt;In my experience most people serve their own interests. Commercial enterprises in fact select for those who serve their own interests over morality because those parties are most likely to succeed.&lt;p&gt;In America you are lucky if your interests coincide sufficiently with the owner class that you can both get along productively. Expecting beneficence as well is unproductive.</text></comment>