Life as a Landlady in NYC
If your problems start to seem overwhelming, just be thankful you aren’t a landlord in a place overrun by moonbats like New York City. No task could be more thankless than providing housing to those who regard it as a human right, especially now that Covid has provided a pretext for the leftists in control to crank the ratchet toward utopia.
Via The Blaze, the New York Times reports on how the Covid eviction moratoriums that have been imposed on both the federal and state level have affected Queens landlady Vanie Mangal:
The first-floor tenants have not paid rent in 15 months, bang on the ceiling below her bed at all hours for no apparent reason and yell, curse and spit at her, Ms. Mangal said. A tenant in the basement apartment also stopped paying rent, keyed Ms. Mangal’s car and dumped packages meant for her by the garbage. After Ms. Mangal got an order of protection and then a warrant for the tenant’s arrest, the woman and her daughter moved out.
At least she managed to get them out of her house. These days, that isn’t always doable.
Ms. Mangal — who has captured many of her tenants’ actions on surveillance video — has not only lost sleep from the tensions inside her two-story home but also $36,600 in rental income.
Among the incidents captured on video, one tenant pulled up her oversized shirt to present Mangal with her buttocks, after screaming obscenities at her and accusing her of stealing the mail.
Odds of ever collecting the money her tenants owe her are slim.
Usually, after Big Government breaks your leg, it hands you a crutch that it forced someone else to pay for and then expects gratitude. However, to receive any financial assistance, Mangal would have to let her tenants stay for at least a year from the time she gets the aid, without raising the rent.
Even with the eviction moratoriums, she can take them to court for their behavior. She filed a law suit back in December. But there is a massive backlog. Big Government is quick to create problems, slower to provide redress of grievances.
Wait until all other goods and services come to be seen as human rights. Then everyone who provides them can expect the treatment landlords receive in liberal jurisdictions. By then, such people will be a shrinking minority.
On a tip from Mr. Freemarket.
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