As Dr. Phil says, "No matter how thin you make a pancake, there are still
two sides.
Andy
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From: "Miriam Vieni" <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2020 9:18 AM
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: FW: "Three-Day Notice"
He's been writing about being evicted for a few weeks and I've been
forwarding his posts to the list. I don't understand how the landlord can
send such a notice if the law in that city doesn't permit it.
Miriam
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From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 10:28 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: FW: "Three-Day Notice"
I'm guessing that this is an article written by Joshua Levine, not one
written about him. But whether or not, what we don't learn is the thought
process of the Landlord. A renter who always pays on time, and seemingly is
following all the rules, living in LA, where people are being evicted by the
scores. For me, the real story is the reason the Landlord is using in order
to evict. And in 3 days! How does anyone find a new residence, pack and
move in 3 days? That's actually worse than the ACB shutting down their Chat
List, effectively at once.
At least no one was left homeless.
Carl Jarvis, still grumping over the ACB's abrupt, no reason, no discussion
Closure.
On 9/8/20, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Yasha Levine <yasha@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2020 11:58 PM
To: miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: "Three-Day Notice"
On Thursday evening our friend found a piece of paper taped to our
front door.
"Three-Day Notice"
On Thursday evening our friend found a piece of paper taped to our
front door.
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Yasha Levine
Sep 8
A few weeks ago, I wrote that our landlord is probably going to try to
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evict us from our apartment in Los Angeles — despite us paying rent on
time, despite us being clearly protected by existing tenant law,
despite the pandemic, and despite all the various eviction moratoriums
that are supposed to be in place on the federal, state, and local levels.
Well, looks like we’re now one step closer to that happening.
On Thursday night our friend Rowan found a piece of paper taped to our
front door. It was a “three-day notice” from our landlord. It told us
we have, yep, three days to get the fuck out of the apartment. Three
days. Well, it’s actually three workdays, which means Wednesday — the day after tomorrow.
We’re in a pandemic and in the middle of a national economic collapse.
We’re ringed by fires, breathing toxic smoke, and dealing with
record-breaking 115º heat in September — heat so brutal that three
A/Cs going full-blast at 10pm barely move the needle. What a great
time to learn that you landlord really is dead serious about kicking
you to the curb for no other reason than he feels like it.
And why not? Even with tenant-friendly laws on the books, everything
is skewed in the landlord’s favor.
So we’re talking to an attorney about what our next steps are. It’s
almost certain that we’ll have to go through the courts: He’s gonna
officially file for eviction at some point very soon and we’ll have to fight for our rights.
The good thing is that the city’s strong rent control law is on our
side, but who knows how it’ll actually play out. Eviction courts have
just opened up in Los Angeles and California. Fighting a case during a
pandemic with millions of people out of work and behind on rent? One thing’s for sure:
it’s gonna cost us money — money that we don’t have. It’ll be a bleak
and nerve-wracking process, and in the end there is no guarantee that
justice prevail. And what will justice look like for us? The best-case
scenario is that we win the right to keep paying him money for rent.
That’s it. That’s tenant justice.
I’ll write more as our situation develops, but we’re obviously not the
only ones facing an eviction in the middle of a pandemic — and we’re
better off than most.
The thing that most don’t realize is that the various eviction
moratoriums that have been thrown up around the country are full of
giant loopholes — and that
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includes Donald Trump’s federal eviction moratorium that just went
into effect.
Landlords might not be able to evict people for not paying rent
because of COVID-related reasons, but nothing stops them from evicting
people for reasons that aren’t protected by the various eviction
moratoriums. As new reporting is starting to show, these “loopholes”
can involve just about any alleged lease violation — stuff like too
many noise complains, unauthorized repairs, or whatever a landlord
thinks they can make stick. And it doesn’t matter if the reason is
real or not. A tenant still has to defend themselves in court, no
matter how bogus the landlord’s claims may be. And
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HWZ42O> the sad fact is that most never get that far. People get
scared and self-evict, don’t know their rights, can’t afford legal
help or don’t know where to get it, or simply never show up to court
and get booted automatically by a judge in absentia. If they do fight,
well, the judge might side with them and let them stay in their
apartment. But that’ll be the extent of their victory. They’ll be back
to square one, having spent money and energy and nerves. So it’s in
the landlord’s interest to work the loopholes. The odds are on their
side, and they get no real penalty for trying.
It’s all very depressing.
Want to see America’s Landlord First bleakness in all its glory? Then
check
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out this recent news segment where a CNN reporter embeds with a local
cop as he makes the rounds to do evictions in Houston. The cop says he
feels bad about forcing families out on the street, But hey, “he’s
just following orders.” Meanwhile, a mover hired to throw an old lady
out of her apartment weeps all the way through his job. He doesn’t
want to do it, but has no choice. He has to feed his family and pay
the rent. “We never know. Today it’s her. Tomorrow it’s me,” he says, fighting back tears.
Forced to do morally repugnant work while your family is held hostage
at gunpoint. A nice clear example of violent coerced labor right here
in America. So the next time some liberal complains about the
totalitarianism or whatever in China or Venezuela and says “we need to
do something”...show them Francisco Munoz’s tears.
—Yasha Levine
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