This morning in M. County Court, there were 170 cases before the
judge in Landlord Tenant Court for evictions. Many were dismissed,
but quite a few either defaulted (no show) or both showed.
>From the landlord side:
1. Don't rent what you can't afford.
2. If you're boyfriend or girlfriend move in, you should have the
understanding that:
a)they should be working)
b)they should be paying the rent.
I look in amazement when a women with kids has a guy living with them
and she tells me - well he's not payig the rent, I am. So i say -
yea, but he's working, right?
3) Beer is rent money. Skip your beer and pay the rent. Same for xmas
and flat screen tvs. You don't have the rent money, don't run off and
get a new tv. Especially if your landlord doesn't have one.
4) Work. Especially if the landlord offers you construction work and
you tell the landlord you can't pay, well, because there ain't no
work out there and you have a nice new truck full of tools that look
like they've never been used..... wake up and put those bedroom
windows in - and pay off your debt.
5) Don't get a pet, especially a large dog that eats $100 worth of
food a week. That's more then I spend on my own kids.
6) Turn your heat down. Turn your heat down and close the front door.
7) Wash more then one thing in your free washer. Hang dry.
8) Don't get roommates, charge them for their room and pocket the
rent money...
Another headbanger - a women never married the kids father, but have
lived together the kids 13 years....
THEY run up credit card debt etc under HER name. So now, taking some
good advice, file bankruptcy for about 50k in debt which cost her
$2500. Today, she's excited becuase her "not-husband" cased in an
annunity that will net about $42k. He's buying a new motorcycle, her
a used car that she wants....a new flat screen tv...
And you're in court, the tenant gets a legal aid attorney and the
landlord - the landlord can't afford an attorney because the tenant
hasn't paid rent....
Hopefully Mr. Obama can do more then stimulate us with money that
will then likely be pissed away -
Maybe I'll take that $1k and instead of making a payment towards my
kids schooling that I have to pay for, and say screw it and buy a new
tv, even though I really don't need it. The old one turns on and off
and I don't need to see much more detail. I usally fall asleep when I
turn the tv on anyway.
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