Real Estate Broker · Austin, TX · Member since 2016 · 834 posts · 449 votes
The eviction moratorium has officially been extended through 30th! https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/pdf/CDC-Eviction-Moratorium-03292021.pdf
Rental Property Investor · Centreville, VA · Member since 2019 · 1k+ posts · 799 votes
5y
I am in Fairfax County, VA and we have a landlord assistance program but the requirement is that the tenant has to sign a form and submit pay stubs. I don't know how any tenant who has not been paying rent would help out a landlord to get funds. For example, my tenant has not paid rent in the past 3 months and has refused to answer calls, texts or emails and has not followed any of the notices we have posted on her front door.
The government is just kicking the can down the road. When the moratorium is eventually lifted, there will be a deluge of eviction filings. Tenants and their advocates will howl and demand that government do something. And government probably will do something that makes the problem worse for landlords because there are a lot more tenants than landlords.
Rental Property Investor · Centreville, VA · Member since 2019 · 1k+ posts · 799 votes
5y
There were stimulus checks that went out that support the people but there is so much paper work involved for landlords to get assistance. I am going to lose more than $7000 on a tenant I am currently trying to evict and I can't do anything about it because the county has refused to provide assistance.
More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle said that in a democracy, the poor have more power than the rich because there are more poor and the majority rules in a democracy. His point remains true. In a democracy, tenants have more power than landlords because there are more tenants than landlords, and in a democracy the majority rules. America's founders understood this point, and that is why they established a constitutional republic to prevent the passions of the majority from violating the rights of the minority. Unfortunately, that lesson has been forgotten over the past 100+ years.