So here in Oregon, and more so in Portland, there have been some really radical laws passed in the last couple years. You can no longer evict people for cause without offering up to $4k in "relocation cost", and you can no longer see nor use history of felonies including sex offenses outside the past 7 or 8 years to screen tenants. You have to announce the listing publicly and take anyone who says they can pay on a first come, first served basis. And instead of showing 3x the rent as income, you can now only exclude them if they show less than 2x.
So essentially the first meth addicted child molester who scraped by 2x your rental price in the last month can move in and never be evicted.
It's really great how NPR and ProPublica keep banging on about how unfair it is for anyone who owns anything to request anything of the people they rent to. What about how unfair it is to people like me who worked their asses off to buy a house and want to take care of it? It took me 25 years of work to afford a home. No 22 year old anarchist, bless your soul because I was one, is going to explain to me why I don't deserve it. It's the only property I own. This is why I'm just allowing a friend to live for free in my house while I'm out of the country for the next year, and soaking up the lost rent rather than soaking up potential legal bills and damage. But if things continue this way, I'll sell it to a willing idiot, and everyone here who advocated for this communist shit can enjoy the hell hole they've created for themselves.
So essentially the first meth addicted child molester who scraped by 2x your rental price in the last month can move in and never be evicted.
It's really great how NPR and ProPublica keep banging on about how unfair it is for anyone who owns anything to request anything of the people they rent to. What about how unfair it is to people like me who worked their asses off to buy a house and want to take care of it? It took me 25 years of work to afford a home. No 22 year old anarchist, bless your soul because I was one, is going to explain to me why I don't deserve it. It's the only property I own. This is why I'm just allowing a friend to live for free in my house while I'm out of the country for the next year, and soaking up the lost rent rather than soaking up potential legal bills and damage. But if things continue this way, I'll sell it to a willing idiot, and everyone here who advocated for this communist shit can enjoy the hell hole they've created for themselves.