Fremont landlord says tenant who owes $101K is using COVID laws to avoid eviction

Goes to show that renting out homes is no longer a passive income investment but now a liability…

I keep repeating that the small landlords in California need to file a class action lawsuit against all of California.

The minute the landlords lose their ability to collect rent (that is not actually being paid) based on government moratoriums, should be the minute the landlords no longer need to pay property taxes (and possibly mortgages).

The lawmakers who put this policy in place should all be held personally liable for landlords losses.

What really gets me is there are people who actually need help but can’t get it. Then you have predicators like this misusing people & the system🤬🤮😡

This tenant is going to make landlords less understanding of future tenants who may fall on hard times. SMH.

Now, I understand why my brother sold his apartments. He was afraid that tenants use covid protection for not paying rent. Also, property taxes here are ridiculous. On top of that landlords need to pay a percentage of the earnings. This sux 😔

Exactly. This is happening to me, too. I have a housemate who won’t pay, won’t sign her portion of the rental assistance, and hasn’t signed a declaration of hardship. Me and my kids (I’m a single mom trying to hold on to my house) have to live with this person with no money and she refuses to leave. And there is literally NOTHING I can do about it because of the eviction moratorium! This is messed up!

I live in NY. And I had a tenant who I would see leave for work everyday..his wife and son wear working daily as well..nothing changed during the pandemic yet they refused to pay me rent because they “ could”..as soon as I was able to , I kicked them out..the wife started crying and said she would pay me the full amount in cash immediately…that actually made me more furious because they were saving money instead of paying me..they had a very affordable rent for a house that I could have EASILY gotten 1500$ MORE but I felt bad because they had small kids ….but they were saving all the money, and causeing me to lose my income while they lived in my property for FREE for. A year…I will never ever rent to struggling people…the tenants I have now are a younge professional couple who worry about their credit score and I learned my lesson to never help losers again

This is EXACTLY why there is a housing crisis. As more of these things happen to the mom and pop landlords, they are taking their houses out off the market. Then all that is left are the corporate landlords who can charge those outrageous rents. Those are the same corporations buying up the houses with "cash".

The landlord shouldn't have relied on the tenant providing the credit report, which turned out to be fake. They should have done a credit check themselves. Live and learn. Still even when a potential tenant checks out good, they can still fall into hard times, then their problems become your problems. One of the perils of being a small landlord.

If you’re not paying rent you’re not a renter, you’re a squatter. It’s a welfare issue not a landlord issue. Wait till landlords stop renting, then you’re going to see a real housing shortage.

If the city extends the covid rules, then the city should pay the rental owners!

These cases make me so mad. My mother's life has been turned up side down due to these type of tenants during the pandemic. People don't have compassion for landlords. My mom has huge bills to pay and because of these type of tenant she can't sleep, she's suffering from severe anxiety, and other medical problems due to anxiety. Hiring a lawyer is no good, just more money the landlord has to pay. Essentially these people can literally take over someone's property without any consequences. People like my mom and the family in the video save and borrow money to buy these properties as a financial investment, you hope you will be able to use the rent to pay for debts or your retirement. lawmakers have to do better for small landlords. It's infuriating.

Better to not leave it to chance and hire a real estate management company to properly vet the applicants. It's not cheap but I think it is better long term.

as someone living in California all their life, 50 years, I can say it's the most screwed up backwards state! It sucks here and I can't stand it!

Wow! $101k over 2yrs is $4200 a month; for that house?

$100,000 for 2 yrs of which 43,000 has been paid on top of that. So $144,000 for 2 yrs is $6000 a month for rent??? Different questions need to be asked here.

He gave us fake income documents and credit report? This really sucks but honestly with such a valuable investment I would never cut corners in processing someone's application. A simple credit report and verification of the information on the application could have possibly saved them the trouble.

This is why my friends and family took their properties off the market. Now you have even fewer options