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If you stop paying, it's your problem, if everyone stops paying, it's the landlords problem
It depends. I don't know how many rentals are mortgaged vs owned. I suspect they can evict you faster than they run out of cash.
Most states have eviction laws limiting their power, and often part of a tenant union is a lawyer to stall
Hi, Texas checking in. What's... "limited power"?
Their power in Texas is huge. Dont pay rent, the landlord can seize ANY non essential possessions of the tenant. Evictions take as little as 45 days.
One more reason why Texas is a shithole.
They call it the lone star state because everyone is the star of their own movie about rugged individualism, or so I've heard.
No, people misunderstand.
It's a rating, not a slogan.
Only because you can't select zero
The lone star is the rating
Okay so you know how you lose electricity in the winter?
I think I follow... Is my landlord Ted Cruz? Rent is my landlord's daughters' fault????
*does not apply to texas
Shit. All we have are all these guns, gallons of stupid, and no spines. Is that what you mean by being without power?
I suppose you could have a landlord-specific-union. If I own and rent out 3 houses then I’d just evict all 3. If I owned 50 houses, I could just obfuscate true ownership through various LLCs. If you didn’t know all my properties, you couldn’t form any meaningful union against me. Apartment complex would be fucked though.
I work for a company that aggregates public data for...reasons, and I can tell you it takes just 1-2 queries to find every LLC, property, etc. associated to a person.