Some commercial landords are demanding full rents from businesses who are closed, while others see that times are tough and cut their renters a break. Most stores are leased or rented to businesses, and naturally with lockdowns and such business is down. If you want to see some real fun, though, take away any emotional attachment and go into the commercial sector. Property management companies are just in it for money so they tend to be fairly inflexible because of it, while the small time landlord generally is more understanding. Whereas a long term renter who just fallen on hard times recently (like many other people) is a known quantity and rules may be bent because it's better to keep them occupying the property than leave it empty and requiring upkeep (and constant checking for squatters etc). Renting out is stressful - new renters come with new headaches (are they good people? Are they there to scam you? Will they pay? etc). Mass layoffs may mean you want to keep your renters because collecting money while you still can, even if you have to give them a break, is still better than tossing them out on the street and having to potentially make less money because the market rate plummets as no one can afford your property. In this case, you are not strictly in it for the money, and can adapt to business conditions as they change. If you consider housing to be more a human need and treat the renter as someone going through life, the outlook changes. If you consider renting out a house as a strictly business transaction, then raising rents even unoccupied makes a lot of sense - you consider even full occupancy at rates less than market to be leaving money on the table. It isn't if you strictly consider some landlords to be in business, whereas housing is more of a human need. It's arguably a minority of owners that are quite so stupid, but most of them do this bad math to some lesser degree. They'd rather hold rents up on a unit that is unoccupied for 6 months out of the year, than lower the rent slightly less and keep 100% occupancy. Oh, yes, don't forget about fucking over the USPS being an issue.
Hell, they almost didn't get the last one that passed because some Senators didn't want any $$$ going to retired people. they can only give money to lobbyists not to Americans. Furthermore, they want far far less money in the 1st place.
They had some poison pills in that crap last week as well. When one side already made a concrete offer and the other won't even consider it, how can the side who does NOTHING be the hostage?Īlso, it is the senate and Trump who have made extreme demands the Democrats are willing to cave on their stuff like they USUALLY do but they are mostly just asking for more money to prop up the system while the other side wants 100% immunity from employers who kill people if they are incompetent, neglectful or sociopaths. They passed something back in MAY that doesn't even get any time in the Senate which has held up everything until they did a no-go shame bill like a week ago. The Democrats did not hold renewal hostage. Given the fact that Civvl is advertising all over the country and that OnQall, though not popular, does exist, it seems as though Civvl actually is an attempt to simplify the process of evicting people who cannot pay their rent during a pandemic. But Civvl is connected to a larger - and real - gig economy company called OnQall, which describes itself as an app that provides "on-demand task services to non-urban communities beyond main city areas." OnQall is the developer behind other, more believable TaskRabbit-esque apps, like LawnFixr, CleanQwik, and MoveQwik. "Literally thousands of process servers are needed in the coming months due courts being backed up in judgements that needs to be served to defendants." The company, at first glance, appears to be some kind of _Nathan For You-_esque prank: siccing precarious gig jobs onto vulnerable people. Seizing on a pandemic-driven nosedive in employment and huge uptick in number-of-people-who-can't-pay-their-rent, Civvl aims to make it easy for landlords to hire process servers and eviction agents as gig workers.Ĭivvl aims to marry the gig economy with the devastation of a pandemic, complete with signature gig startup language like "be your own boss," and "flexible hours," and "looking for self-motivated individuals with positive attitudes:" "FASTEST GROWING MONEY MAKING GIG DUE TO COVID-19," its website says. Instead, it is the following call to action, from a company called Civvl: "Be hired as eviction crew." During a time of great economic and general hardship, Civvl aims to be, essentially, Uber, but for evicting people. The button below this statement is not for a GoFundMe, or a petition for calling for rent relief. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: SINCE COVID-19 MANY AMERICANS FELL BEHIND IN ALL ASPECTS," reads the website copy.
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