Some attorneys say it's not practical, especially for tenants with overdue rent.
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Other attorneys are paid by landlords.
more rules that only benefit rich people. slowly making being poor illegal.
totally makes sense for one of the poorest states
Disaffected poor racists and bigots will continue to reelect the people doing this to them.
almost feels like victim blaming. theyre suffering under generational propaganda... completely brainwashed. how do you combat that?
With re-educucation
Which is generally why education is one of the things the rich are trying to hold control over
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American "justice" system at work. This really makes my blood boil to read. I hope this law is overturned, it's beyond absurd - its also malicious.
“Sure, I’ll overturn it. For money.” -judge, probably
Being a judge seems like a pretty great deal honestly. I could use free luxury vacations and a 10 million dollar sinecure for my SO.
Legal industry is a better term than justice system. It is a a profitable industry using the law to extract profits.
So evict someone living paycheck to paycheck and force them onto the street, they won't be able to afford to challenge it because they'd need to put up more money than they have, and then arrest them because homelessness is illegal.
And.... prison labor is profitable...
"We're bringing back slavery baby!" - JD Vance probably
It never left.
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Fuck, when you put it like that, it almost sounds like it was planned that way. What a funny cowinky-dink.
It's free labour!
Who ya gonna believe? The honest Trump-fearing landlord, or the homeless criminal?
The fact that people will likely worship him as a God if he wins again...
So if someone wants a cash infusion, they can evict their tenants without notice and get a years worth of rent instantly? I'm sure that won't be abused.
Bonds are paid into court. They don't go directly into the landlord's pocket. Also nobody gets evicted without notice (and understand that notice is a term of art in this context--plenty of people get evicted without knowing about it or being actually made aware, but every state has a requirement that you have to do one of a limited number of things in order to provide notice to a tenant of an eviction).
This is a shitty law, but please don't make stuff up or draw assumptions to pretend it's worse than it actually is.
The problem this state (via the landlords' lobbying for this change) is trying to fix is the scenario in which an evicted tenant gets a sympathetic judge in a jurisdiction with a long docket backlog and basically gets to squat in the property rent-free for however long they can stretch out the litigation. If you're just now becoming familiar with the value of litigants dragging out litigation, well, welcome to 2024.
I know social media despises landlords (and there's very good reason to revile institutional real estate hoarders), but there are good public policy reasons to not want people squatting in properties rent-free, one of which is that if the landlord can't get a non-paying tenant off the property through legal means, they will pursue non-legal means instead. There are much better ways to accomplish this than the way TN has here, but shotgun evictions are something we'd really like to avoid.
The problem this state (via the landlords' lobbying for this change) is trying to fix is the scenario in which an evicted tenant gets a sympathetic judge in a jurisdiction with a long docket backlog and basically gets to squat in the property rent-free for however long they can stretch out the litigation
Classic case of the solution being many times worse than the problem.
Also, people too poor to afford rent don't tend to be able to afford dragging out litigation either. Lawyers are expensive and even if you manage to get pro bono representation, there's likely to be limits.
if the landlord can't get a non-paying tenant off the property through legal means, they will pursue non-legal means instead.
So the solution to landlords breaking the law to get rid of poor people is to make it unaffordable for poor people to contest unfair evictions?
Sounds like landlord logic..
shotgun evictions are something we'd really like to avoid.
Then take the gun away from landlords in stead of pointing one at homeless or soon to be homeless people.
It was never rent free. The system they got rid of said the court set a payment already. The idea that it was rent free is pure propaganda.
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Sounds reasonable, at least to the Elon Musk type of folk. After all, laws are made to accommodate the wealthy. Look at the wealthy orange felon/rapist - he is waltzing all around laws that would put you in prison for ten lifetimes.
Why nobody wants to work anymore?
Do you want mass migration out of your state? Because this is how you get mass migration out of your state.
Except for the fact that most of the people who can't afford rent can't afford to move to another state either.
Plus there's the ones who can't leave because of family or work.
If moving both yourself and who/what you need with you was free, almost nobody would live in non-Nashville Tennessee.
I love my non nashville tennessee city, and love my state. But I hate our state's legislature. And nashville honestly
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Democrats will be blamed in 3, 2, 1…
In saner years I'd say that the Supreme Court would never let this stand, but these days Clarence would just say "Fuck it, make it double."
JFC that is dystopian AF.
I live in TN ( for now ) and our Trump loving leadership is making a fine case for moving out of state.
Shit I live in TN... well I have loud neighbors I need to shut up...
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