Governor Ivey no eviction until pandemic over.

[crimson fan man]

There is a problem with this because there are to many renters that will take advantages of this. They should have some way to get rid of losers that will just tell the landlord to go to hell. I know because I rent houses and duplexes. A lot of renters are good people but there are a number of them that will take anything to not pay and it takes time to get rid of them while they tear your property apart. This just prolongs it.

 

[BamaHoHo]

A guy I know had been trying for months to evict a person. Finally gets a date. The problem was that the date was a couple of days after the Tuscaloosa tornado. Judge rules that he cant evict. The process starts all over. I think it took him another 3 months which made it over a year without a rent payment. Some of these THIEVES know how to work the system.

 

[B1GTide]

As a renter, it is a risk that you assume when you decide to let someone else help you amass wealth. But most tenants are people just like you and me - they want to pay their bills.

 

[Moro Creek]

Back in the 70's, I managed approximately 2000 units of apartments and generally had about 50 units to evict per month (not bad really). For some reason, the units up for eviction always had a mysterious problem with the heat and/or AC not working. I did not have enough service men to take care of their problem very quickly. Many left on their own.

 

[Crimson1967]

This is why I would never own rental property.

 

[B1GTide]

This is why I would never own rental property.

It is a great way to build wealth, but there are risks. The tenants are human beings and have rights that must be respected, and those rights are just as important as our rights as renters. But most people who get into renting properties do not take those risks into account.

If you rent, you are taking the same risk as loaning money to a complete stranger. You can run credit checks on the stranger and perform some due diligence, but what happens when he cannot pay you? How much risk can you afford to take for profit? Like a bank, sometimes you will choose wisely, sometimes you won't, and sometimes you will lose out even if you choose wisely through no fault of anyone (fate).

 

[TIDE-HSV]

This is why I would never own rental property.

I wouldn't now. In 2009, Alabama adopted a version of the Uniform Landlord and Tenant Act. I've been trapped a couple of times moving off and leaving properties where it made sense to rent them out because of market conditions. I got out of them when that act became law. There were some inequities which needed remedying but I could see that there were loopholes big enough to drive a van through for unscrupulous tenants to take advantage of. I can think of one girl who'd probably still be in and not paying rent...

 

[Bodhisattva]

The law in Alabama favors the deadbeats, and government has incentivized more theft. My Mom has been trying to evict several non-payers for months. It's a slow process in normal times. Now that the government, in its retard wisdom, has blocked evictions, several more tenants have decided they prefer living rent free. The entitlement mentality is strong with many.