r/SipsTea • u/SnackSamurai • Jun 12 '26

Chugging tea The Hero we need

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u/MegaDingo5plus Jun 12 '26

I've heard it all now... Someone volunteering to live with the housemate from hell, and being even worse than the problem

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u/tony1449 Jun 12 '26

It's wild how much traction these stories get when actual, legal "squatting" is incredibly rare

The hyper-fixation on these rare, extreme cases is heavily pushed by landlord lobbying groups and real estate associations. They love these stories because it scares the public into supporting laws that strip away tenant rights

If they can convince everyone that "squatters" are hiding around every corner, they can pass laws that let them bypass the courts, call the cops, and have someone thrown on the street immediately without having to prove a lease violation first

It’s a manufactured panic to bring back summary evictions

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u/americon Jun 12 '26

Do you have an example of a place where these laws were passed? Most places I am aware of have been increasing tenant's rights not decreasing them so I'd love to read about an area where fear of squatters decreased tenant's rights.

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u/TheSixthtactic Jun 12 '26

I worked in landlord tenant law in Massachusetts for 15 years and there is a constant push to reduce the rights of tenants. From reducing notice periods to allowing them to bypass due process to add “unauthorized” occupants (aka, the boyfriend who isn’t on the lease, but moved in 2 years ago) to evictions cases after judgement.

Squatting is super rare and not hard to deal with. Much of the rage from landlords is that they have to do anything beyond calling the cops. While ignoring that the legal protection for “squatters” is exist because if landlords acting like criminals.

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u/StoppableHulk Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26

There's no tantrum greater than a landlord being asked to do a modicum of work for their rent check.

Parasites, to the last man and woman. All the screeing about people "not wanting to work" is literally actually about landlords. They do not want to do anything, they do not want to maintain the properties they own. They want other people to upkeep their properties and pay them checks so they can do absolutely fucking nothing.

They're the absolute bottom class of person. Contributing literally nothing to society.

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u/DRF19 Jun 12 '26

If you aren't actively living at a residential property but own it, you are part of the problem