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Sgt. Schultz is the executive director?
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@2

Exactly.

The only other thing I'd note is that $600 a month in Issaquah for 4 people wouldn't even cover expenses for the landlord. I pay more than that in insurance, property taxes and utilities for a modest home. Add in maintenance costs and building financing and $1300 is still break even at best.

Also, why on earth, if the tenant is on rental assistance and probably significant state and federal assistance as well, would having another child seem like the right thing to do for her or her family?

But kudos to Ms Groover for presenting some of the landlords perspective as well.
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@2 in an equalized Socialist Paradise some people are more equal than others.
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Yes, Heidi thanks for presenting the management company's explanations. Generally the reasons for the 10-day notices sound reasonable. Also, a 10-day notice is not an eviction notice. It is difficult to get a legal eviction based on the types of rule violations in this article. This is management informing some tenants they are in violation of their lease and not being considerate neighbors.
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I'm white and I have a particular set of skills. I can file FOIA requests, contact media, I'm on a first name basis with my local county and state representatives, and I have a legal plan through work. I also have terrible parking habits (just ask the Bravern parking attendants). Do you think they would try and evict someone like me? :)
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Also worth noting having been through it as a landlord: the last thing I want is an eviction. They're legally cumbersome, they incur costs both for the process, for clean-up of the unit and for re-leasing. They usually are defacto admissions that some rent is going to go uncollected from the prior tenant and a vacant unit being prepped for new ones.

I know of no landlord that evicts unless the tenant staying will cost more.
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Typical fascist bs comments in Seattle. Most comments here, are trolls and bots. Teeming homelessness and desparation in seattle, and assinine trolls bombard an article like this.

May you get cancer, become homeless, and die in the rain! You evil fuks!

Durango colorado is a very small town, with a significant homeless problem now. It is like this, all over murica. Not just the cities.

Millions of young, middled aged, children. What are the trump fascists solution? Austerity, cut things to the bone, more nuclear bombs and waste, more war.
The solution for the homelss in Durango is to make them sleep on a nuclear waste dump outside of town.

https://durangoherald.com/articles/21735…
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@9 Most comments here, are trolls and bots.

A troll or bot is not someone who disagrees with you — rather, it’s someone who wishes cancer on everyone before posting about Durango, Colorado.
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@mistral @Thecentetisright

Good grief, you people are insufferable.

I'm usually a bit more sympathetic to law-n-order-n-market-forces arguments than your average SLOG leftie, but for heaven's sake, we're talking about housing that's supposed to serve the economically disadvantaged, here.

Has it ever occurred to you that maybe, just maybe, there might be some circumstance in which you might come off as a screaming asshole when you berate the poor for having the temerity to complain about getting kicked while they're down?
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I have been homeless with cancer. I lived in a minivan, while recieving chemotherapy. Probly got cancer from living in Yakima, by Hanford, most of my life. Most people, that are homeless do have major medical conditions. Fuko the clown wants to end all subsidized houaing. Thanks for dropping by and trolling me cdo7 from 10. You must be a real sweetheart!
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I'd be there's a long waiting list of people who want, qualify for and are willing to abide by the rules of this landlord. Why should those who refuse to correct requested violations of them be given priority?

If a cop writes a ticket because I was speeding in a school zone, after pulling me over in the same place with a warning, I'm not being kicked. I'm getting the consequences of my choices.
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There are so many things in this article that are infuriating.
If she is paying back rent it is because she commited fraud against the government by not reporting an income increase. If you are in federally funded section 8 housing, your rent is set by YOUR OWN income level. Your landlord doesn't choose your rent amount and couldn't raise it even if they wanted to!
If your landlord knows you have an unauthorized occupant and doesn't issue a 10 Day Notice to Comply, your unit or building could lose its funding! Then NONE OF YOU get subsidized housing. The landlord is doing what they have to do to follow federal guidelines and the law.

Jesus Christ what a bunch of whiny bitches.
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Fascism, psychopathy, hate, dominate comments on articles like this. That is how rotten and degraded media and people have become. Indicates right-wing trolling. 10 million homeless american women, children, elderly, disabled, infermed. The game of monopoly implicitly demonstrates how psychopaths can leverage, steal, kill with impunity. The murecan way. It will get worse in this chemical and radionuclide, saturated impirialist-shithole. All of u fuks will get cancer now. Whether you die in the streets, from losing everything after cancer treatments. When u lose yur families,
When you die on a bed, as the cancer eats out the already, diseased and accursed, brains and guts of the selfish rotten, hateful sacks of shit that u are may the pain burn thru like an infinite inferno.
And when the most expensive immune and chemoherapies, will not help you, may an image of the people you spiton, hurt, scewed, tortured, laughed at, flash through your putrid little evil, compassionless brains, and tear yur body, and evil soul to pieces before u croak.
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@ 17..... ? Who are you mad at? (I'm being genuine. If you want to share your situation or the situation of someone you know, maybe I know who can help. I've worked in Seattle social services for a long time)
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Thanks for your kindness 18. I am terminally ill. I have shelter and food but, i have seen the worst of the worst. I lost any love, i had for this country, when I initially got sick, became homeless. I had a good job. Shitty insurance, because of a pre-existing condition. Our government, has really fuked most of us. Now it advocates genocide of it's own people.

The level of discourse, in most of america is sadistic and monsterous. 3 generations of family, wiped out in Kennewick and Yakima, from cancer.

I do not know, if the things on here are real. It is as bad or worse, than the last great-depression in murica, now. My heart goes out to those people, in this article, struggling to keep a roof over their heads and the many women, children, infermed, men elderly trapped without shelter in this polluted evil shithole of a cpuntry, now.
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@19 Come back! What’s a fourth banning once you’ve already had three today? I’m sure the Th. Carol or Thms Carol or Carol Tom usernames are all available! You haven’t even wished cancer on the morning readers yet...

[to audience] ...but remember, it is we who are the trolls and bots.
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@9- keep 'em out of Silverton and all is good.
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I agree that most of these comments are shit. Provide a heart a soul a real meaning to desperate people which you walk by everyday. Too bad you are such selfish assholes.

Bad laws are bad laws and don’t deserve adherence by anyone. This woman deserves to be with her son period.

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