This isn’t some evil corporation, this is an individual who owns one rental property.
Imagine you put all your savings – your earnings from years of hard work – into some account, and then because of an unrelated event the government said you couldn’t have it for three years. You depend on that account for your own mortgage, food, insurance, etc. And at the end, while you have a claim to the money you might have otherwise withdrawn, that amount is gone and will likely never be repaid.
You’d be rightfully pissed. This guy is a person too, y’all. The zeitgeist reddit all-encompassing landlord hate is fucking pitiful. Learn to separate corporate ownership and human beings.
They haven’t paid the dude rent in 3 years, that is f’d up. But a hunger strike won’t solve anything. Homeless ppl die of hunger everyday and nobody cares.
Everyone in this thread who is telling this man to eat cake is fucking awful. Owning a property used to be the American dream. Renting a part of it is the only way to make that dream a reality for a lot of people who are not millionaires. I can see a year or even two of a rent moratorium to give people time to get back on their feet but three years is absurd. This man needs that money to do all the things any of us work hard to be able to do—pay a mortgage, send a son to college—and the state has given a family license to steal it from him. They are $120,000 in the hole. He will never see all of it.
I can hear you all cry mockingly “won’t someone think of the landlords?” Well, we all fucking should, unless we all want to be renting indefinitely at exploitative rates from an indifferent and careless property management company owned by hedge funds.
wish I was local to the bay area. I’d get those fuckn deadbeats out of that house. Cops aren’t going to do anything anyway. Stores over there get robbed in broad daylight with nary a cop in sight.
People are acting like this dude is raking in 100’s of thousands of dollars a month. He’s just some guy that decided to diversify his income by renting out ONE property and hasn’t been paid in years. Not every “Landlord” is some super mega corporation that owns half of downtown and lives off of their tenants rent.
MonaSherry says
He should go on a housing strike too. Go live in one of our lovely local tent cities, if they’ll have him.
Faux_Real_Guise says
I wish him commitment in this dark time.
SenorArthurVandelay says
Oh noes
CrJ418 says
He should take all of that money he’s saving on food and pay his other bills.
Fiscal responsibility is the key to success!
He can accomplish amazing things by giving up that avocado toast and fancy coffee.
Down_Low_7834 says
Let them eat cake!
ReginaldSP says
Hmm, sad. rest in peace.
DreadnoughtPoo says
This isn’t some evil corporation, this is an individual who owns one rental property.
Imagine you put all your savings – your earnings from years of hard work – into some account, and then because of an unrelated event the government said you couldn’t have it for three years. You depend on that account for your own mortgage, food, insurance, etc. And at the end, while you have a claim to the money you might have otherwise withdrawn, that amount is gone and will likely never be repaid.
You’d be rightfully pissed. This guy is a person too, y’all. The zeitgeist reddit all-encompassing landlord hate is fucking pitiful. Learn to separate corporate ownership and human beings.
Exciting_Compote_547 says
They haven’t paid the dude rent in 3 years, that is f’d up. But a hunger strike won’t solve anything. Homeless ppl die of hunger everyday and nobody cares.
jackofslayers says
Reddit is so fucking weird. Pay your god damn rent, this dude is not Jeff Fucking Bezos.
You are all seriously fucked up.
NotThatZachRoberts says
First step is buying less Starbucks and avocado on toast. Looks like he’ll be good in a couple weeks.
JiminyDickish says
Everyone in this thread who is telling this man to eat cake is fucking awful. Owning a property used to be the American dream. Renting a part of it is the only way to make that dream a reality for a lot of people who are not millionaires. I can see a year or even two of a rent moratorium to give people time to get back on their feet but three years is absurd. This man needs that money to do all the things any of us work hard to be able to do—pay a mortgage, send a son to college—and the state has given a family license to steal it from him. They are $120,000 in the hole. He will never see all of it.
I can hear you all cry mockingly “won’t someone think of the landlords?” Well, we all fucking should, unless we all want to be renting indefinitely at exploitative rates from an indifferent and careless property management company owned by hedge funds.
crimxxx says
Shit I can live in someone else’s house rent free for 3 years where do I sign up? Can they also cover water and utilities while where at it.
midnightJizzla says
wish I was local to the bay area. I’d get those fuckn deadbeats out of that house. Cops aren’t going to do anything anyway. Stores over there get robbed in broad daylight with nary a cop in sight.
Unfair_Isopod534 says
> Wu says the tenants owe him around $120,000 in unpaid rent.
That’s a fucking 20% down payment on a house.
clockworkdurian42 says
People are acting like this dude is raking in 100’s of thousands of dollars a month. He’s just some guy that decided to diversify his income by renting out ONE property and hasn’t been paid in years. Not every “Landlord” is some super mega corporation that owns half of downtown and lives off of their tenants rent.