Fairness? Absolutely. But landlord/tenant laws have gone too far.....

Ralph, you’ve highlighted an important issue that many landlords face today. It's crucial to find a balance that protects both tenants and property owners. Your perspective sheds light on the complexities that can arise, and it’s great to see you advocate for fairness in such a nuanced situation.

You are singling to the choir Ralph Gorgoglione ,

I just went through a similar situation. My seller the land lord gave his tenants plenty of notice he was not going to renew their lease because he was going to sell. They stalled and stalled with one excuse after another. He finally had to file an eviction notice which was a nightmare. They absolutely destroyed the house and he had to spend so much on it after they they finally left! I agree laws have gone too far in favor of the tenant!

Ralph California, specifically Santa Monica and Los Angeles have never been Landlord Friendly, totally against potential and future land lords... so I am glad to see now people like you are willing to write about it... it has been like this for the past 25 years just no one was willing to speak up, Endre

You said it very well Ralph, the reality of being a housing provider.

I have first hand experience in dealing with clients. I had total of 92 doors for about 15 years during which time I filed 68 evictions mostly for non payment of rent and prevailed on 67 with no opposition and always used an attorney. The only one that waned a trial never showed up to the trial.

Hello Ralph - at times and perhaps too often, it isn't easy to be a tenant or a landlord.   Unfortunately, finger pointing often takes over and no one "wins".  

Tenants should not be able to stay in a home that's not theirs, especially when given more notice than is even required. And people should not be able to move into a house when someone is on vacation and not there, and then the actual homeowners have trouble removing those people. Both of those are ridiculous events that have been occurring.

By the way, that means I agree.

You'll get no argument from me on this issue, Ralph. Basic protections are important... but some places have gone beyond protection.

We must be fair to the homeowner. What was done to landlords during Covid was criminal on the part of our governments.

Thanks for sharing your observations and advice.

Much has changed since I sold my property management business.

Hi Ralph,
You're right. The laws have gone too far in favor of the tenant and do not properly protect the property owners from unscrupulous people. There are tenants out there who go place to place, working the system. That's why it is so important to do a tenant background check and get references. The risk of evicting a tenant is the destruction of the property.

Thank you for sharing your insightful perspective on the complexities of landlord-tenant laws, Ralph Gorgoglione! Your experiences highlight a crucial issue that often gets overlooked, and I appreciate you bringing attention to this important discussion.

Entirely agree- and NYC is both the most capitalist place in the nation and socialist at the same time. While I am all in favor of protecting tenants from greedy, incompetent, and abusive landlords- the system has gone way, way overboard. The latest landlord tenant protection was passed by the city council with a veto proof majority- so the Mayor hasn't signed the bill into law, and probably won't- allowing the clock to expire- and it will automatically become law. This new law won't go into effect for 6 months assuming REBNY (NYC's home grown version of our NAR) lawsuits don't stop the law or delay it. The law will force landlords to pay for the broker commission. They think this will lower rental costs for tenants- but of course landlords will bake this into the rent- and rent renewals will be renewed at the higher price point. Further the council is also going to be voting soon on whether to make air conditioning available to all tenants as mandatory. And if you want to evict a tenant- good luck with that- it can take years to go through the courts. It's gotten so bad- one of the large NYC landlords has sued the housing courts- because it used to take 3-4 months to evict a tenant- and now it takes at least a year- causing the landlord to lose their right to due process speedily.   

Even our foreclosure laws have gone overboard. I was president of my condo association- and one of our owners defaulted on common charges (by the end it cost the condo association more than $400k- and we got less than $200k back when we eventually closed the sale. It took years to resolve- and the owner was only able to fight it claiming the attorney's fees were too high- which delayed things for years and cost us a lot more in attorney's fees. 

There are way too many laws/rules in the world these days, it's difficult to stay compliant with anything, haha.  I am hoping this new administration will help out with that.

Tenant-Landlord Laws are state specific, and should remain so.  Many states are Landlord-friendly (i.e. - Texas, Florida), and many are Tenant-friendly (California, Washington, Oregon, New York).  Regardless of the state, vacate issues often occur for failure to follow and enforce the Lease provisions.  It is unfortunate that some states have allowed the judges to take liberties with their state laws and 'rewrite' the methods of removing a non-compliant Tenant.  The National Association of Realtors has really dropped the ball when it comes to the Tenant/Landlord laws across our country.  It has been the due diligence of the Apartment Association, and the National Association of Residential Property Managers that have stepped up and provided the information and resoursces to fight much of the bad legislation in quite a few states.

We can complain; or, we can get involved in our local and state advocacy groups to address these issues, especially in the states which seem to allow tenants months of free occupancy, at the expense of the Owner.  Step up and get involved!