The crisis over housing costs, nightmare tenants, and anti-landlord policies is about to get even worse for Washington. If you think Seattle is bad, wait until California launches more extreme policies to hit our region, a California-based lawyer warned. He has been working on his own nightmarish tenant story.
Avi Sinai of Sinai Law Group represents Santa Monica landlords dealing with intolerable conditions caused by progressive housing policies. His client has been fighting a legal battle for three years to get his apartment back.
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Sinai’s client owns a three-bedroom apartment.one of the landlords If the previous tenant sublet without permission. And now unauthorized tenants will not be evicted. Sinai calls her a “professional tenant” and describes her as someone who repeats the cycle of securing her property, not paying rent, and abusing the legal system that protects tenants at the expense of her landlord. ing. Records show she had been evicted four times in 12 years.
Tenant rights initiatives and tenant advocacy groups during the coronavirus era have been a major source of anger for Sinai and property owners. Sinai said the tenants’ lawyers were prolonging the legal process with “many motions and significant delays.”
“About five and a half months after filing my first eviction case, I was finally able to get a jury trial,” Sinai said on AM770KTTH’s Jason Lantz Show. “The system we have here is designed to prevent such delays, such actions, [that] It puts a huge burden on the system and taxpayers. The amount of time we wasted with unnecessary treatments and things we shouldn’t have been given. ”
Sinai said it took nine months of litigation to obtain a $25,000 judgment against the renter.
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“There’s nothing wrong with not paying rent in LA. We mean it literally,” Sinai said. “You can choose not to pay rent, or you can delay the process for months, but your landlord can still settle with you before trial, waive your rent, seal your records, and even pay you to move out. It makes sense to present. The impact is zero.”
KTTH has documented many similar cases in the Seattle area. The common theme is that irresponsible tenants hold all the power, leaving landlords in an impossible position. And Sinai warned that our problems were about to get worse.
“So, What will happen in Seattle? “You’re three steps behind California in terms of rent control limits in Washington state,” Sinai asked a hypothetical question. “That’s the trend we’ve seen. In my opinion, it is a slow and steady march towards anti-landlord laws and an attack on property rights. ”
An example of the slow creep of radical tenant bills that trample private property rights is the recent passage of the Tenant Bill of Rights in Tacoma.
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If this trend continues, housing availability will be negatively impacted. Landowners told KTTH’s Jason Lantz Show that they have already cleared uninhabitable areas.
Most landlords are small business owners who simply don’t have the financial resources to pay for the lengthy process of evicting a tenant. Ironically, when independent landlords, fed up with a system deliberately stacked against them, take their homes off the market, without us realizing it, corporate landlords are left as the only option. Become.
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