Living in someone else’s
property and paying rent is a terrible thing. I say this because your
living situation is literally at the mercy of the landlord. You don’t
know when you are going to be evicted. It doesn’t matter that you
have been renting for years and have been a model tent. This happened
to my family in 2007. In the mail came an eviction notice out of the
blue. It was because new owners and the property manager wanted the
apartment we were living in. I just received a double hip replacement
and was on Dialysis but that didn’t matter. We had to go. This is a
common occurrence for families living in California.
When I heard about 97 year
old Marie Hatch was being evicted after 66 years of tendency. It
really brought back awful memories. When her landlord and friend
Vivian Kruse, gave her lifetime tendency it was a good thing. Marie
could live in the cottage until she died. After 66 years Kruse is
dead, her daughter is dead, and her granddaughter is dead. They each
passed down the lifetime guarantee of tenancy to Marie. The verbal
agreement died when the granddaughter died. The new landlord said
that’s why he’s evicting. I don’t believe that is the reason.
He wants to get thousands of dollars instead of the 900 dollars Marie
and her roommate are paying. The new landlord David Kantz says “he
feels terrible that he is evicting Hatch, but the trust left behind
by his wife — the third of the previous landlord women who are now
deceased — expires in July, and he is duty-bound to sell the
property on behalf of his two sons”. Bull, he is all about the
money. This is a sad situation and it doesn’t have to be this way.
Friends of Hatch’s started a GoFundMe account, and by Monday
evening it had raised more than $11,000.
https://www.gofundme.com/mjqf7pjw
What
really gets me is, that the Federal guidelines indicated rent is
unaffordable when it exceeds 30 percent of a household’s income.
This means that in San Mateo County, a household must earn at least
$106,000 to afford the average current monthly rent of $2,648 for a
two-bedroom unit, according to the county study. U.S. census data
show that about 35 percent of renter families in San Mateo County are
paying more than 30 percent of their income for housing. This is not
the only county that people are paying more than 30 percent for
housing. Santa Clara County is another one. To live here in
California you have to pay to breathe the air, especially living in
Silicon Valley where I live. Rents are steadily going up and it is a
shame. It really has me thinking about moving out of California. I
refuse to pay $2,600.00 or more for the place I’m living in, it’s
not worth it.
LM
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