Progressively Abolishing Landlords
Progressives work progressively because if the water starts boiling immediately, the frog will jump out of the pot. Not even Joe Biden is tyrannical enough to ban cars outright; the strategy is to force us to give them up gradually by driving up the price through regulation. Landlords will meet the same fate as cars as they are progressively driven out of existence through the erosion of property rights. For example:
Patti Peeples, 61, said investment properties were meant to subsidize her retirement, but after spending $5,000 in legal fees to remove squatters who occupied her home for 34 days, she is fed up.
Costlier even than the lost rent and legal fees is the damage the parasites have inflicted:
The two female squatters caused $38,000 in damage, including smashed walls and windows, cabinets off the walls, a washer and dryer missing, toilets broken, and fecal matter scattered throughout the home.
Also, the squatters are apparently raising deadly pit bulls.
In a civilized country, the squatters would be arrested for trespassing and vandalism. In ours, they have Big Government on their side. Consequently,
“I have absolutely no right to go into this house because these squatters have the expectation of privacy, even though the law knows that they’re squatters, I know that they’re squatters, and they know they’re squatters,” Peeples said.
Going into her own house would be dangerous anyway:
“We were driving by at night, and they threw a brick at my car and damaged it, and we had the window partway down, and they threw human feces into the car,” Peeples said.
Peeples plans to get rid of her rental properties and try to find another way to subsidize her retirement.
Linda Jiang is also considering getting out of the business:
Jiang told ABC13 that she was also a victim of squatters after a month-long struggle.
After arriving at her property to clean up the yard, she discovered she was locked out of her rental home by squatters who changed her locks and refused to leave.
In both Jiang and Peeple’s cases, police told the property owners that they were unable to help and that both situations were a civil matter that must go through the courts.
This can take years. When and if the squatters are finally evicted, they just pull the same stunt somewhere else. Tamisha Holmes-Bey, a squatter on Jiang’s property, has apparently been evicted three times since 2019.
Democrats won’t see a problem here. When the last landlord has been driven out of business, people can live in public housing. We can turn the whole country into a giant Cabrini-Green.
On a tip from Varla.
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