12-01-2009, 02:04 PM
The laws all over the US are too tenant friendly. But whose fault is that?
Politicians didn't wake up one morning and say lets make harsh laws against landlords to protect tenants. It originally evolved from abusive acts by landlords. But it spiraled out of control at the hands of ordinary citizens.
You go to any landlord tenant court and out of 100 cases heard, 90% are landlord trying to legally remedy a bad situation. In almost all cases the court rules for the landlord because the law was followed. The other 10% are tenants going after the landlords and often times, the landlords prevails over the tenant. But you don't hear any outcry to award triple damages along with pain and suffering to the landlord who had to endure the hardship. You don’t have mass protest at the capital by people demanding tough laws to protect landlord’s investments and property. You don't hear people demanding that a tenant be sentenced to live in a dump because he trashed the landlord apartment.
BUT, god forbid a landlord attempts to evict little old granny Jones who hasn't paid rent in 11 months because she’s addicted to buying from the home shopping network and lives in filth with 5 poor little kitties. You will have mass protest from ordinary people shouting death to the landlord for being so cruel and death to the politicians if they don’t pass a new law requiring at least 365 days of non payment before even being able mail a postcard saying the rent is overdue! People don’t care how badly a landlord is treated but if a tenant puts on the right show, they have people crawling out of everywhere jumping on the bandwagon.
Politicians didn't wake up one morning and say lets make harsh laws against landlords to protect tenants. It originally evolved from abusive acts by landlords. But it spiraled out of control at the hands of ordinary citizens.
You go to any landlord tenant court and out of 100 cases heard, 90% are landlord trying to legally remedy a bad situation. In almost all cases the court rules for the landlord because the law was followed. The other 10% are tenants going after the landlords and often times, the landlords prevails over the tenant. But you don't hear any outcry to award triple damages along with pain and suffering to the landlord who had to endure the hardship. You don’t have mass protest at the capital by people demanding tough laws to protect landlord’s investments and property. You don't hear people demanding that a tenant be sentenced to live in a dump because he trashed the landlord apartment.
BUT, god forbid a landlord attempts to evict little old granny Jones who hasn't paid rent in 11 months because she’s addicted to buying from the home shopping network and lives in filth with 5 poor little kitties. You will have mass protest from ordinary people shouting death to the landlord for being so cruel and death to the politicians if they don’t pass a new law requiring at least 365 days of non payment before even being able mail a postcard saying the rent is overdue! People don’t care how badly a landlord is treated but if a tenant puts on the right show, they have people crawling out of everywhere jumping on the bandwagon.