Evictions - It's time to go.

[John Smith]

Have landlords started to evict non paying tenants?  It's my understanding that the eviction moratorium was struck down by a federal judge as being unconstitutional.  If that's the case, has anyone here had any luck getting non performing tenants out?

[Joe Splitrock]

The sad thing is it didn't have to come to this. States were given billions of dollars to spend on rent relief going back to the original relief efforts last summer. Some states failed to administer the money. New York was allocated $100M for rent relief and spent $40M of it last year. Over 50,000 applications for assistance were denied in NY alone because applicants couldn't show loss of income. They were collecting unemployment and not paying rent. The problem is the moratorium doesn't require proof of financial hardship, but qualifying for rent assistance does. Read between the lines, that means landlords are paying the price for fraud. The point is if people don't qualify for rent assistance, they should not be protected from eviction. Either you have hardship and need help or you are a scammer and need to be evicted. 

While landlords were victimized for the last year, the media has continuously demonizes landlords for simply asking for what is fair. Show me these "poor tenants who can't get help". Money sits at some states unspent, so either the state is to blame or the tenant is to blame. In either case, the landlord is not the villain. How about we start holding politicians and tenants accountable? Give landlords their day in court and let the tenant prove hardship and efforts to get help. Give the judge a checkbook and let them write the landlord a check on the spot. Landlords just want to get paid. They don't evict people for the fun of it.