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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by pubquiz to c/youshouldknow
 

If you are facing or have recently faced a renoviction by a flipper or merchant housing dealer, you may not understand the reason: greed. I recently went through a renoviction and it took me some time to see the reason why: the commodification of housing.

Better put as how to double your return on idle money by simply evicting the vulnerable and artificially inflating housing costs.

Big shout out to the conservative faction of "god what's you to be richer at any cost" for bolting a moral veneer of piety to this cruel and commandment breaking (#8, #9, & #10) approach.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 107 points 4 months ago (3 children)

When you get evicted due to no fault of your own because the landlord intends to renovate the property. It's often done so they can slap in a new carpet, some tiles and a new bathtub and then jack the price up 1200$ and call it a luxury property.

[–] Carighan 25 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Something that is difficult to do over here because the longer a tenant has been in a rented place the more say they get over living there.

Effectively once it's been 5+ years, you no longer get to evict them. You can ask nicely if they'll leave, otherwise you're SOL.

[–] Ledivin 24 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago

Going by their comment history, Germany.

[–] Carighan 14 points 4 months ago

Hamburg in Germany. I think we got even more tenant friendly laws than the other federal states though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That seems like a very good reason not to let any renters stay over five years.

[–] Carighan 13 points 4 months ago

It's scaling. There's no hard cutoff. The longer a renter has been in, the more difficult to cancel their contact. The idea is that the longer someone has lived there, the more their life will have become reliant on being in that area, and hence uprooting them is less and less sensible.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

Ahhhh I almost faced this once. Was renting from a landlord who wanted to change the disgusting unfinished basement into two more bedrooms. He asked us to try to find a new place (during COVID) so he could do this.

I told him that we cannot find a place easily as we have a bunch of cats and it’s COVID, and he asked if we were okay with him making the bedrooms while we’re here and once they’re done, we’d have to pay 20% more for rent.

We had been there for five years and our rent was never raised… so we were elated to agree. Double the amount of bedrooms for 20% more rent money and we don't have to move? Uhhh yes please. After the increase, we were at like 75% of the rent price compared to other 4br 1ba rentals in our area.

I’m also just happy he didn’t kick us out. The basement bedrooms turned out nicer than the first two we had.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Ive never seen this within a lease term, only at the end of one, where the landlord says they won't be continuing.

Crazy if people are actually getting tossed out with just short notice over this.

[–] NOT_RICK 25 points 4 months ago

A “renoviction” refers to a situation where a landlord evicts a tenant because they intend to perform renovations on the rental property or suite.

In many cases, renovictions are entirely appropriate and necessary to maintain the rental property. However, renovictions do not always happen in good faith. For example, it’s not uncommon to see landlords claiming that they intend to renovate a suite to evict a tenant and then relisting the rental without completing renovations to take advantage of the market.

Essentially a bs way to boot a lower rent tenant in favor of the current market rate for tenancy. Market rates are easier than ever to ~~price fix~~ determine now too thanks to sites like realpage.