I am not a people person, I hate dealing with difficult tenants. So around 2-3 years ago, I decided to require a 720 credit score of new tenants , and a year ago declined to renew existing difficult tenants. I got lucky, I think many tenants I had early on would have taken advantage of the moratoria. So while I, as an individual and as an owner of a rental small business may be better off from the numbers of financial standing, I think far worse off in terms of the foundations of the rental business. --50.4.xxx.x

It's all guesswork right now. We are fumbling in the dark. --70.44.xxx.xx

Perhaps expansion of long-term gov't assistance (most likely) --70.160.xxx.xxx

Until the day after the election then the government is going to have face reality where this legislation is going to challenged as violating constitutional rights. Rent is the revenue source where goods and services are bought locally which effects the economy. In the province of Ontario there is year backlog before a hearing day. Bill 184 was passed where tenants can voluntary set up a payment plan where if they default then can go for a eviction. The extreme leftist groups held demonstrations where in some cases they became violent where there was property damage. The extreme leftist groups do not believe in private sector rental housing where reality with universal health care how is it going to possible to buy all the rental housing stock from private owners. Modern medical care is expensive no matter who pays for it which means higher taxes. The free for all can not go on forever where people are receiving funds for food and housing not anything else. Here people were receiving $2,000 Cdn. per month for food and housing where now they can apply for UI. If the economy is going to recover then business needs to function. We all remember when they voted in Socialist provincial government in the province of Ontario where they said they were bankrupt all the private sector rental providers with punitive rent control system. One day 20,000 jobs were lost then later another 20,000 jobs were lost. A lot of tenants suddenly found they had no job. They even brought penalties for repairs, renovations where if a more efficient heating system was installed then tenants could apply for rent reduction where all the work was stopped. Socialism never worked in Canada or anywhere in the world. --147.194.xxx.xx

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At least the CDC requires some sort of communication from tenant to landlord, and some proof of the source of their problem, threat of purgery and such. NOT that it will necessarily be enforced correctly, AND it still causes delays and expenses to property owners, but....... it's quite a bit better than others. --70.160.xxx.xxx

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David, I'm not sure that I am catching your drift. --70.44.xxx.xx

I can't tell if I'm better or worse. Things just keep going up and down. In our city (just south of San Diego proper) the rule for not paying rent is totally favoring the Tenants. Landlord can (actually MUST) give 15 day notices about non-payment, and Tenant MUST receive from Landlord, a whole slew of paperwork telling them their rights. Must be signed, dated, lalala. The city site provides instructions for the Tenant on how to make sure they get everything they need. AND Tenant can skate by no matter what, because, according to our city's rules, if their income is less than $100,000. a year, the Tenant does NOT have to provide proof that they are financially impacted by Covid. Yeah. That's what the city rules are saying. AND if the Landlord does anything wrong, the Tenant can SUE but the Landlord cannot do anything until March 31, of 2021. Something is terribly wrong with all this. --72.199.xx.xxx

What were you predicting? --73.120.xx.xxx

I'm curious to see if someone with deeper pockets and a better grounding in law will be able to challenge the CDC's overreach. I understand the desire to protect people who have been affected beyond their capacity to deal with--- but in general, people agreed to cooperate by derailing their personal lives to keep from overwhelming the hospital system with millions of ill patients. Once it became clear that most people survive, and most people are able to recuperate at home--- it reminds me of the saying that those who give up liberty in exchange for safety don't deserve either. : --137.118.xx.xxx

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Thank you RB --73.120.xx.xxx

I was thought that there were three branches of government. At this point, I believe thee are four. The bureaucracy is the newest --24.101.xxx.xx