Great move, Mr. Ali!
Love it! Decriminalize poverty.
Well as a person whoâs wife, brother in law and sisters in law inherited rental property, $5000 could be a shit load of money especially if the property is old and needs constant upkeep and is already in the hole from previous repair. I can appreciate people being poor and having a hard time paying rent, but some of us landlords ainât got enough money to be able maintain a place to let people stay for free. If it werenât for the fact that this rental property is supposed to provide money for my wifeâs stepmother we all be ready to sell the property and be done with the constant drain itâs been financially and mentally. A lot of renters suck!
You can be jailed for, essentially, owing money? WTF?!?
Itâs quaint that Taylor would absolve the Full Metal Jackass of any participation yet Westiminster is a subsidiary of Kushner Companies. To think Kushner Cos. was unaware of these strong-arm tactics is pretty rich. And then use the âthey all do itâ defense.
Still, the most precious bit of information is that Kushner received $1.6 million from his holding in what can only be described as a vicious, callous company.
Now I wonder, Did Ivankatoinette always want to marry a humanitarian or did she just get lucky?
Tossing tenants in arrears into prison is sort of counterproductive. (If theyâre in prison, they wonât earn any money to try and pay off the rent they owe.) Part of owning rental real estate is deciding on the likelihood that the prospective tenant will be able and willing to pay the rent. At some point, if you donât get your rent, you go to court and get an eviction order. This is a nuisance (even after youâve evicted the tenant, you need to try to collect the rent and most people in this situation have no assets to collect.
This isnât some small landlord. This is a large company which can make decisions about balancing the various policies. Arresting people doesnât give Kushner any extra rent. The likelihood of a tenant not paying and the cost and delay of evicting the tenant are something you take into account. Unless you are a gangster from a family of gangsters.
This article started the ball rolling. Pottersville has nothing on Kusherville. Or Kushner So Vile.
Tenants in more than a dozen Baltimore-area rental complexes complain about a property owner who they say leaves their homes in disrepair, humiliates late-paying renters and often sues them when they try to move out. Few of them know that their landlord is the presidentâs son-in-law.
I appreciate the work that goes into trying to run rental properties, but at some point youâve got to decide whether the money youâre making is worth the effort to keep the income, um, coming in. Unless thereâs some kind of stipulation in the will that says you absolutely canât sell the property, why not dump it on someone else? And if there is a stipulation, let the place go empty until that provision expires (lifetime of the stepmother?).
On Kushnerâs end, though, thereâs no way heâs in the same situation, although it sounds like heâs saddling his renters with substandard housing, then socializing the risk of being a landlord by sending his tenants to jail.
I wonder what it would take to turn one of his buildings into a poorly-run meth lab?
Wow. Heâs everything I thought he was â and more!
I was floored when I read it. NYT ran the ProPublica article at the time it came out, and Iâve been astonished but not completely surprised that other media havenât taken it up. PP sucks up way too much media oxygen leaving little breathing space for other equally important coverage.