Landlord threatens eviction, sparks battle with tenants during moratorium
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- Опубликовано: 7 июн 2024
- Two Alameda County renters have been served with several eviction notices and claim they’ve been harassed by their landlord for months to leave, despite the county eviction moratorium still in place.
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Two young able-bodied adults feel entitled to perpetually live in someone else's property for free because they have lost a job. The county has services for those in need in the form of shelters. "I could sleep on my mom's couch" Yes, that is where you go when you cannot pay your rent and mom would be on you day and night to find a job quickly! Sadly, the eviction moratorium has some people believing there is a legal right to stay in someone's property for free for any reason. Is there an adult in their lives to explain the basics of Living 101?
@@anthonycbrown1952 exactly!! And they tried to make them look like the victims
@@CrazyVideosLater Damsels with🍆 in distress....who want to lay up and play house all day with no responsibility
"it was a paradise, but now it's a living nightmare." but boy oh boy, we don't ever want to leave this nightmare.
Samething I said....
Sorry, but these two are taking advantage of the landlord. They are basically squatting on someone's property.
i think your correct....
Lazy.. need 2 get 2 work.
Exactly right. they are living there for free, and will never pay.
Not true it's mold everywhere they ain't fixing the problem fix the problem get ur rent easy it's not even floors on the durn floor
You can hear the stress in the landlord’s voice. He’s out of pocket $35,000 because of these two. They should get out.
This is absolutely insane. You haven’t paid rent and now you want to stay for free??? You saved enough money. Just leave.
These tenants need to move the hell out of this mans property immediately. Its not the landlords problem if they have nowhere to go. They need to find another place
It's easy for u to say. If u was in their shoes you would be singing a different tune.
@@edgar22452 what if it was your property would you like them stay in your property for free.
@@anthonykence9954 No. But I would be a bit compassionate for my tenants. Remember there's a thing called karma. Karma is a bitch. Be kind to others please.
@@edgar22452 Dont own property because tenants try to pull so much crap so they can live and not pay rent. Look what happened during the pandemic. I own 5000 units I see all the time. If they cant afford the rent then they to move
@@anthonykence9954if it were my property i would be living in there and not owning any other. 😂 land lords are a scam, and increasing the cost of purchasing a house. I have 30k (30,000) and still can’t put a down payment on a decent house a run down shit hole is 500,000$ (little more but rounded down) due to the “supply” being low due to bigger land lords sitting on property…. 15 million houses are empty in the usa and 114 million renters slightly more then 35% of the population (114million houses/units) and 0.5million homeless….. the usa replacement level is at 2.08 (.02 which is alot) means we are on a population decrease…. Which means supply will easily go up as long as no artificial stifling of said supply happens or destruction of houses for personal gains (or to mitigate property taxes while you buy surrounding property to eventually build a big property….)
But they haven't been paying their rents. Options for landlords are limited. The government and media should pay the rent and help fix the apartment instead of pointing their fingers.
agreed, government officials should shelter them in their homes for free...
@C Me How is that landlords' fault? Media are sensationalize the issues. Seriously how many months of moratorium should the landlords give. Not every landlord can afford not collecting their rents.
@C Me They deserve most of the criticism. 'Hands up, don't shoot' did not happen in Ferguson - but every major media was hyping that without doing any fact finding.
The landlord has every right to evict irresponsible people that do not pay their rent. PERIOD.
So you are OK paying over thousands of dollars for an unhealthy and unsafe apartment? What if your sink back ups and the landlord does not do a darn thing until 9 months later. This will cause mold in almost every section of the apartment.
Sometimes people are stuck where they are. Remember when you move, you have to pay the the deposit, first and last months rent. So to say that the rent is $1,000 a month. to even move you need at least around $3,000 just to get the other apartment. This is not counting moving companies, or even renting a moving van.
@@crazyknarf did ya like the way the whyte guy said in his sexy voice if i leave where would i go, thats your problem bub
@@crazyknarf The property taxes are also thousands of dollars if not tens of thousands. Same shit.
ScrewLowLifesWanting FreeBies!!!
@@crazyknarf We all know why many people did not pay the rent during the pandemic. They just took advantage and became irresponsible with the help of the US government. If people have to live in an unhealthy and unsafe apartment, then maybe it is because of the bad decisions that they have made in life?
So it is NOT legal for the landlord evict the non paying tenants to fix the property and sell it but it IS legal for the squatters not paying the rent and hire a free lawyer paid by CA tax payers. Duly noted.
The landlord is milking this whole issue. He doesn't take this thing in law serious. He knows the legal rights of the tenants, he just wants to give them hell for as long as he can.
@@shellyblanchard5788 The tenants have breath that smell like poop
@@kushking949 they probably don't take care of themselves like they ought to.
@@shellyblanchard5788 That and they eat where you go to bathroom!
@@kushking949 some people are just plain don't care, sounds like to me. They need some help in knowing things. Some people live that way. 😟. They need some help.
They should pay the rent or get out! The landlord is right!
The landlord is definitely correct in this matter. He needs the place empty to fix those issues. Also, they are clearly using the pandemic to milk the issue as they don't want to work or leave to live with family, friends, or a new place. now they want to sue the guy?!?
I think they can stay if they want to during the repairs,….but I wouldn’t recommend it. There’s gonna be a lot of banging, tearing shit up, putting new shit in, power tools, wet paint, the smell of wet paint, possibly some bad Mexican music, people running around and talking loudly possibly in more than one language, a giant dumpster in the driveway,…and it’s gonna go on for several days. I’m all in favor of tenants rights, but when it’s time to make repairs,….do you really wanna stay there??? Ok….you might wanna wear a hard hat.
As a landlord , I will do my all to respect tenants rights and respect their privacy. But the mold is a dangerous issue that can impair on their health. Let the landlord correct the problem if possible. The tenants should be on the ball about getting rental assistance as soon as possible. This moratorium has cause more problems then fix the issue.
I thought the loophole in this one state was remodeling. I've seen cases where that's the key to getting them out right now. Not fix things up but remodeling.cant recall all details, on if they needed to hire a company n sign a contract first then use contract in court to evict now. And they've been winning.
@@tempgirl00711 of their lease is up that’s one way of it’s not an emergency remodel like a tree falling on the house or major flooding. If the lease is up you can terminate without renewal, move in yourself or an immediate family member, sale of property. Etc. I was a landlord in California and Hawaii and that’s what’s it’s been for years. They’re hiding behind the pandemic because they are scum bags.
@@talkingcrypto5944 interesting comment on Lease expiring...we have a couple of them and they go directly to month to month in LA County......management co doesn't do anything...just month to month tenants now
You can buy cameras. You can hire a lawyer. You can pay rent, or get out. Owner wants to sell. It's his property. What? Afraid no one else will rent to you?
Yes a crime for greedy property owners rented a hunted home.
I was rented before and signed 1 years lease. After one night I saw so many randoms acting weird and I used video recording cameras and left the house. I told the greedy property owners that did someone dies at the house and he said no. I have to rent a hotel til I find a new place and owner sued me for breaching the contract lease.
He pissed me off and ghost was destroying my television and computer and thing. He accused me sabatogated my own things. Lucky I have always the recording on and I told the juries and judge I invited them to stay in house after I showed the videos. I thought I was going crazy and lucky juries found favor for me and I won small judgement $10k and double my deposit and hotel expense.
My story isnt rares and most greedy property owners didnt do anything but want to extorting my wages.
From the renting experience, I brought own lands and hired priest blessed the lands and new materials .
Yes property owners can do something about it by building new and blessed lands but they dont.
Islamic emirate states of America is coming. Equal for all.
Dont fall for greedy property owner trick and lies. Documents everything from those greedy criminals. I'm lucky and God blesses to buy financial instruments and bitcoin. Now I hope nobody will have to rent greedy property owners and buy their new house.
Eviction Defense is a non profit for tenants provided at no cost. theirs a reason law enforcement don't like cameras. it is in his best interest that might not only serve as a barrier to having his rights violated but in the instance where it would of happened since video evidence is highly admissible in a court.
@@wsbdiamondshand1013 I feel you on that bro
I don’t get how two grown able bodied adults haven’t been paying the back owed rent, especially in California where rent is so expensive. They are never gonna be able to pay the back rent. I get that they're apartment had issues but if you don’t pay rent the landlord won’t be able to fix it, and they could’ve fixed it and still payed the rent. People are just taking advantage of the system imo
Exactly.......its jobs out there......they are lazing and milking the system....while on TV whining like damsels in distress
Yes people are absolutely pathetic right now, they can get jobs. And the landlord should not have to pay for them to move. he is one hundred percent right about that
They should’ve put in escrow if ther was an issue
The tenants didn't hire a lawyer. They got a free lawyer paid for by California taxpayers.
Even better
These tenants are milking the system. I hope the landlord wins. These are 2 healthy young men and they feel entitled. They cant go anywhere, because they messed up their credit and are milking this poor landlord for every dime they can, by not paying rent. These two guys should be ashamed of themselves. Once that eviction shows up on their credit report, they're going to wish they continued paying their rent. To the young men: No one owes you anything.
They just want to live on the system 😔 disgusting
They will claim discrimination because they’re same sex couple… anything to get sympathy instead of getting jobs!
These two are just milking the system and the landlord. They know they can’t be kicked out for non payment so why not just milk it to the end? Two able adults doing nothing and living on someone’s dime.
every one in alameda county is doin it, you can't evict even if your selling, unless you pay them ridiculous relocation FEES $00,000 and to top it off they damage the place.. I don't see the government pitching in for relocation fees or repairs...
As far as I knew if you don’t pay rent or a mortgage you loose your apartment or house, did I miss something ?
If these two can hire a attorney they can pay rent ! Another thing, if your rental is in need of repairs you can pay your rent to a lawyer’s escrow account and there is zero the landlord can do !
Cali provides free attorneys for losers. But taxpayers pay the price.
Exactly!!! Pay the rent to Attorney and that can be verified to Landlord 👍👍
@@lisalee2885 he said he wouldn't accept the rent , he just wants them to move.
Two grown able to work men have not paid rent in nearly two years... They were once renters but now they are squatters.
News network attempting to make the landlord look bad. They have the two squatters holding hands looking very sincere and good people. Then they have the landlord going into his car from a distance like he's doing something wrong.
Insanity has befallen us.
I'd ask the renters how they'd feel if there was a law saying they had to show up for work,
regardless of the fact they don't get paid - let that sink in
you've just described an unpaid internship lol
@@lalawala9929 Not at all. An internship is a program where you will get a job after training (unless you really suck at it). Your comparison is completely invalid.
@@dutchtreat9 a job is not guaranteed, even if you're good at it. If the hiring place has a relationship with your school then they just cycle kids yearly. No need for commitment. Still valid
@@lalawala9929 nah. If the hire rate was low and unfair that wouldn’t fly for long.
People have to work two jobs 70+ hours a week just to pay all their money for a home they are rarely at? let that sink in
Whenever these 2 men look for another place, the potential landlord researching them online, this video will surface.😏
nice👍👍
Actually its bad for all tenants because rents have to increase to cover the risk of all these California mandates. Free rent, Free lawyer and Free relocation by law.
Freeloaders
They need to move! Go back home and cry with their mom.
😂🤣😭
AGREED
Yes Milking their mom, NOT System or Landlord !
Yes
Shame on KTVU for such a misleading headline. Some tenants are totally milking the system!
Landlords been milking the system for years. Milking people wages and putting people in situations every time they raised the rent. Tables turned and landlords are feeling the pain many tenants have been going through all along.
@@trainsandlocomotives Maybe temporarily.
But the repercussions of the tenants milking the system are already in evidence and these will hurt no one except those looking to rent.
In my area, there are almost no home rentals available where there used to be dozens.
A lot of people sold their rentals when home values went up and interest rates were at all time lows.
I own a home now but when I rented four years ago, there were tons of nice rentals under $1500 in this area. When looking a couple of months ago, for someone else that needed to rent, I could barely find any.
Rents are much higher and landlords are asking for, and probably getting, first and last month rents in addition to a security deposit.
How many people can afford to dish out $5K before they even move in?
Who is going to be hurt by the actions of these deadbeat tenants in the future?
@@trainsandlocomotives the tenants agreed to it. They agreed to pay rent. They signed a contract agreeing to it. The government has no right to nullify a legally binding contract that was already approved. The constitution guarantees you the right to property you own. It also guarantees the right to equal protection under the law, therefore if the tenants don’t obey the law and can’t be forced to pay, then the landlord can’t be forced to obey the law either and can’t be forced to pay for repairs, mortgage, etc.
@@trainsandlocomotives then buy your own property if you can't handle the idea of someone else giving you the opportunity to live in theirs
"Where would we go". That's not the landlord's problem. The state needs to stay the F out of peoples business. There's a process for eviction. Let the process work.
The city needs to build a homeless shelter that's worse than the cheapest rental, but still better than the county jail.
Companies are begging for employees. WORK AND PAY YOUR RENT
I want to work but don't want the jab....now what genius?
@@Loyd.Hernandez if that’s all you can find then too bad. So you wanna mooch off others?
@@Loyd.Hernandez learn a new skill. Go to school
@@garysmith7760 you don’t have to get it
Lazy guys who do not pay rent need to go to mom's couch
2 grown-ups can't pay smh
I'm sure their moms are proud
Bruh stop acting entitled and just leave the place the landlord seems fed up with renters
Shameful biased news reporting.
KTVU loves to create victims.
Where can we go (and not pay.) I just had to fixed that sentence the tenant said. Go back to mom's house if she will have you or get a job and pay - you deadbeats!!!
Any lease I’ve signed states that you can’t withhold rent to force the landlord to fix damage. They need to get out. Why would you want to live somewhere with so much mold??
Hey ktvu. Can you find 1 person who has received rental assistance. Bet you can't. That's the story.
Sadly their credit is ruined.... No one will rent to them for a while...their faces are here too! Would you want to rent to them knowing what they are capable of!!! Nope! The gig is up guys....you played the system and sadly at a high cost...you haven't slept very well I'm sure 👎👎
People who don't pay their rent are not tenants they are squatters and they should be harassed by the land owner. The eviction moratorium has gone on way to long here in
California should have never happened in the first place protecting all the lazy ass cry babies. as the land owner losers his property because they can not pay there mortgage.
They want you to fill sorry for those to young men who look able to do some kind of work unbelievable. I am in my 60's and not afraid to do any kind of work to pay my bills.
Exactly 👏
Loosers. Pay your bills, just like everyone else, or move away.
Pay your f***ing rent and stop acting like victims 😒, guy offers to help you move and your response is to sue...have some decency
The best thing they can do is move out to a better place for them. I know it is not ok to do this to people, but who in their right mind stays in a place full of mold and not pay rent for almost a year. Guys please things would had been much easier if you just ignore that moratorium and do your part. Treat people like you want to be treated. I understand that these two beautiful young men may have no place to go but if you don't pay your rent this is what you will get. Guys please think about it. This poor old man is probably going through a hell of sleepless nights, anger, and desperation but yet all you guys just think about is yourself. Do your selves a favor if you are not ready to face the real world please don't leave mommy or daddy coach, no one is responsible to provide free shelter to anyone. I understand that you may be struggling but the best thing to do is not call the news but fill out jobs applications and rental assistance. Just incase anyone else is in this same situation. God bless and get saved 🙏
Agreed 👍
Both can go get on their family member couch and see how long the mooching lasts!!
"Beautiful young men"? We must not have watched the same video :D
Why should landlord provide tenant relocation money?
It's the law in commiefornia
One party system like China
So the landlord is suppose to be ok with this
Get a job
I have come from the future. Rents will go up 100% in the next 6 months due to nonsense like this. You are warned.
Have to agree with you there. Landlords have learned their lesson if they haven't already sold their properties.
This is awful. My friend was on disability when she moved out of her house to a friends house. The 4 people living there stopped paying. And she eventually just sold the house so she didn’t have to deal with the moratorium. She is a renter now
Go get a job, look healthy enough to me!! Squatters!!
Landlords are becoming pure evil fascists! Greedy gouging criminals!
I’m totally on the landlord’s side!
These tenants will have a very hard time getting a new rental when government protection stops. Everyone is now closely vetting potential tenants and will not rent to people with a history of not paying and squatting.
I had a landlord that was a teacher and when I claimed about the roof leaking, I was told to move
Soooo….you wanna stay in an apartment where there’s mold….you expect the landlord to fix it. Landlord WANTS TO fix it….Needs you out in order to do that….and you won’t leave. I mean you can stay during repairs if you want, but I wouldn’t recommend it.
The law requires landlord to send the notice of non-payment every month if the tenant keep not paying. This landlord is just following the law
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It's a double edged sword. Landlords need to be paid as they have bills (not every landlord is a large corporation that can afford to wait till rent relief comes through). Tenants all over the country have faced unemployment and rents are out of control everywhere, even in bad neighborhoods so they would not be able to rent somewhere else. The flip side is that if they get evicted, it stays on their record and they will have trouble finding a decent place in the future. It may be cheaper for the landlord to pay them to leave than wait this out for another year. Super important for people to know that this is not the first or last time we will have this issue. Prepare by putting aside money every month for a rainy day. If that means moving back home and saving up, then so be it. It's humbling to have to move back home as an adult but we have to do what we have to do.
Pay your rent or move out! Renting will never be the same. These owners have been burned and will never rent to anyone that will do this to them again. Bad credit=nope, prior eviction=nope, no steady employment =nope
Horrible journalism.
The new is very bad , always talking about bad tenant, how about small landlords, can landlords stop pay bank payments and property tax from government !!!!!!!
Bank or Government will seize all landlords properties. Then tenant can buy one of the units cheap at auction with the free rent profits.
Kick the deadbeats out!
These renters are deadbeat squatters.
Kick them out now
He can't , he just can't, or else he'll get arrested. And catch a case behind these freeloading azzholes. Legal bills, court costs, maybe bail too.
Such laws to protect the tenants who do not pay should require the government to pay the landlord so they have protection too. I don't see equal justice under the law here.
“Where would we go”…… ugh rental laws in USA is bizarre
No rent. May. June. July. August. Sep. Oct... The landlord can sell and evict but the law says he has to pay relocation costs on top of 6 months unpaid rent. Plus tenant gets free activist lawyer. Eviction notice is not bullying. Bungling landlord was trying to DIY an eviction process. At this point landlord is behind on his mortgage and cannot afford a lawyer. Stop accumulating so much debt and milking taxpayers. Supply is low and people actually waiting to move in. Move out.
I deal with people like this all the time. The place is ALWAYS falling apart, its always so horrible, never paying rent because reapirs not done that THEY did. But they never leave....
The bias in this reporting media trying to blame small landlords. Sounds fishy to me. What about the big corps that own and control over 50% of real estate? Trying to take the side of squatters? Pathetic reporting
All of a sudden everyone is a small landlord lol
@@HustleMagnets the fact that the owner is directly managing their property makes them small landlords. Why do you assume Im saying "everyone is a small landlord"? You seem far removed from understanding the real estate market. Btw, im a small landlord myself
@@felixchien1664 well said👍
if you dont pay rent its not your home.GET OUT
How can it be illegal to evict someone for not paying the rent? What the fuck has this country come to?
THIS!
Suck it up and leave, how can u sleep at night in a house ur living in for free and refusing to leave
these 2 guys could just start and onlyfans and get a new place lol
You'll be their first subscriber
😅😂🤣😭😭😭😭😭
They need to leave voluntarily. If they get an eviction on their record they won't be able to rent anywhere.
Shut the Water and Electric off
The hand holding is super annoying. Also, is that a man or a woman? Also, that dude needs to get a job and stop being a baby.
Im in another state but I sold my rental townhome 1 month after COVID hit. The renter was a policeman that was being relocated so he did not want to renew his lease. TG I did, it's not worth the stress!
They dont want to leave, he was about to laugh about it
Note taken: don't invest in CA real estate.
As a gay man I can say these two need to "butch it up" and be responsible for themselves. I think there are sexual problems.
My mom met a fella about 35 years ago. She moved into his house and rented out hers in Berkeley when they got married. Her husband died. That house that she moved into with her new husband now goes to his kids and she needs to move back into her house. She is 81-years old. The folks living in her house have been paying below market value for the last 25 years. If she doesn't perform repairs, she is a 'slum lord.' The folks want $250,000 to move. My mom is not that rich. She would had have to take a loan on her house. It's insane. We've already spent $10,000 on attorney fees.
I can see both sides - but how is a landlord supposed to fix anything if they stopped paying their rent? They claim it was just to try and do the repair themselves? so did they do it?
If I was the landlord I would just sell it with the deadbeats in it and take the loss. maybe its a huge loss, but it sounds like California is a terrible state to be a landlord in with this kind of tenant - it will drag on and on and it sounded like the landlord is required to apply to the state to get rent from them?! in stead of evicting. that just sounds like a nightmare.
If I was the landlord I might try to do the same thing and let the place fall apart and get condemned -> then the renters have to get out and I'll get to fix the place and finally sell it.
You have to pay your rent ! holding hands acting like a poor homeless old ladies. PAY YOUR rent! and then go to court or get a job!
Hey that's Black Mold!!! Move yourselves out of there!!! Pronto!!!
better yet contact the health board or code enforcement
So people that don’t wanna work can live in someone else’s house while the homeowner pays the mortgage every month? Everyone is hiring get a job
Although this is not a good case. The truth is there are landlords all over harassing tenants that have paid their rent and performed repairs out of their pocket, with no reimbursement or credit towards their rent. There are landlords that want tenants gone so that they can move a tenant in that will pay the extreme increase in rental rates. Again, this is not this case because clearly there are other issues going on.
Oh spare us this absolutely false nonsense. There is zero standing under the law for a landlord to pay you back for work you did to the property. The law states you have to tell the landlord then it's their discretion who gets hired to do the work and what kind of work is being done. What you are describing is unauthorized remodeling of a dwelling that you don't own and in every case I've ever seen that is grounds for immediate eviction. Stop pretending the landlord demanding the legally owed rent is harassing you.
So you can buy cameras but can’t pay rent? Two able bodied adults taking advantage. I’m sorry, I’m not being insensitive but where is the protection for the landlords who have mortgages they have to pay when the government allows people to just stay and not pay. It’s so wrong.
Let's go Brandon!!!Also this seems very ghey.
So 🎉free in in Cali 😢! 2 grown ass men can’t even pay rent ! They both look healthy even with the mold 😮
It is not OK to so this to people? So is it OK to live for free just because you feel so special? EVERYBODY should be responsible for paying their way through life, just like everybody else. If you can’t pay the rent, get another job or get the fuck out!!
Renter: Is not ok to do this to ppl..
Also doesn’t bother to pay rent at all 🤣
You should move out period.. why are you still there gooo
They. Both. Needs. JOBS
Relocation $$?? Are you serious?
retaliation? when i dont pay my credit card the bank removes my credit. can i sue them for retaliation? This is GEN Z. you being broke is not the landlords problem.
Get a job! Stop walking around hand and hand and get a job
Get a dang job!
Landlords are becoming pure evil fascists! Greedy gouging criminals!
These people have the same mindset as those whom dine-and-dash
Complaining about being harassed but not willing to pay rent
The gay couple apparently can't find another apartment within the area they can afford to rent
Landlords have been screwed....still have payments insurance and other costs...get the hell out.
Landlord should set the place on fire while the tenants are inside. Then claim the insurance.
Not the landlord's problem- laughable that they need to be harassed- GET OUT!
So many complaints yet they want to stay? Doesnt make sense. Just leave instead of complaining.
San Francisco is terrible. Tenants should pay a rent but if they cannot, they should leave immediately. Why landlord had to go through this kind of crazy situation. They should change the law, which should be more landlord friendly. If they don't pay at the restaurant, they will be arrested. It is the same. Tenant should be arrested if they don't pay a rent.
Relocation assistance?????? Ridiculously stupid.... this type of crap will encourage landlords to pull their rental properties OFF the market.....which then escalate the housing shortage in rental market higher.....
Renters moving into ppl house an feel like their so Entitled
Why is the guy with the long hair unemployed? And why is the other guy forced to carry all that burden??? Time for divorce, maybe...
And if the conditions are so bad, they should just move and take their chances eleswhere months ago. Mold alone can permanently mess up your lungs.
I think that both sides smell fishy to be honest.
If you don't pay, you can't stay! It's that simple.