• Hello_there
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    1852 years ago

    “Landlords entering the party were greeted with shouts of “Parasite!” and “Get a job!””
    Some good news for today.

      • Hello_there
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        22 years ago

        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.

          • Hello_there
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            12 years ago

            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.

              • Hello_there
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                12 years ago

                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.

          • LousyCornMuffins
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            12 years ago

            We’ve been trialing an arbitration system out here that’s rather successful.

    • @Koraboros@lemmy.world
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      -1092 years ago

      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?

      • @psycho_driver@lemmy.world
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        692 years ago

        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.

      • Flying Squid
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        662 years ago

        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.

      • @WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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        -252 years ago

        There were, yeah. My neighbor tried using COVID as an excuse and ended up skipping state instead of going to court.