A nation of deadbeats
I'm sorry to say it but reading the news today made me embarrassed of my country.
For Tenants Nationwide, a Scramble to Pay Months of Rent or Face Eviction When did we become a nation of deadbeats that can't pay the rent on properties, such as the ones I inherited? It seems a direct consequence of the moral failing of giving away free money to people to sit on their ass. Make them work or die of hunger and they will pay the rent, I guarantee it. So come on, dig deep America and make me proud of my dual nationality. |
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I work my tail off telling the people I hire how to do their jobs cleaning my apartments. I also pay good money to lawyers to find ways to squeeze the maximum possible income out of my renters. That's my job. And in return I expect a reward, not a tax hike to pay for the losers.
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These people are always complaining that they can't afford to pay their rent. Well, if that's true, then why don't they just buy their properties like the rest of us do? It's not as though the sort of places they choose to live in are expensive.
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At the risk of going off-topic, what about the maintenance of accommodation in different places? When absent, the cost of getting someone to look in periodically, turn lights on and stuff, doesn't grow on trees. Otherwise a busload of pot-smoking derelicts can turn up and set up shop knocking out goodness knows what and (since they're your premises) saying, “I had no idea they were there!” is a lead balloon: “Oh yes well you would say that wouldn't you; were they paying rent? No? So luxury accommodation provided rent-free and you weren't taking a cut? Pull the other one, Mabel, it plays Merry Christmas.”
OK, ok, perhaps that's hyperbole: the cops would never use a semi-colon. And when you do spend time there, what about the place you were before? By registering oneself as an alcoholic mental drug addict in some places free rooms are provided by the government. Of course then you have to live with actual inebriated psycho druggies (lice, fleas, scabies, TB, you name it they've got it) which reminds me, the cost of fumigation never seems to go down. Or so I've heard, and rats. They come in from under the bus and find things so much more agreeable – decide to stick around. Talk about a nation of deadbeats! |
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