06-14-2018, 06:32 AM
The real reason there are few long term rentals is because the owners of those properties are not well protected under the current laws. It's almost impossible to recover the costs of damages done by tenets
How many stories have we heard over the years on Punaweb about a property owner trying to evict a tenant or squatter who won't leave or pay rent? It doesn't make me want to go out, buy a house, and get into the landlord business.
I alternate between thinking of the planet as home — dear and familiar stone hearth and garden — and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners. Today I favor the latter view. The word “sojourner”... invokes a nomadic people’s sense of vagrancy, a praying people’s knowledge of estrangement, a thinking people’s intuition of sharp loss: “For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.” - Annie Dillard
How many stories have we heard over the years on Punaweb about a property owner trying to evict a tenant or squatter who won't leave or pay rent? It doesn't make me want to go out, buy a house, and get into the landlord business.
I alternate between thinking of the planet as home — dear and familiar stone hearth and garden — and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners. Today I favor the latter view. The word “sojourner”... invokes a nomadic people’s sense of vagrancy, a praying people’s knowledge of estrangement, a thinking people’s intuition of sharp loss: “For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.” - Annie Dillard
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