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It is pretty wild to think that all renters in the USA have had eviction protection for a full 11 months, and yet most everyone is still just choosing to pay their rent.
I guess some people pay their rent these last months because it's the right thing to do, others out of fear of later financial consequences, others to protect credit rating, others to prevent interest on debts, others out of habit, others out of guilt.
It makes me realize that whenever anyone argues in absolutes about a hypothetical scenario which affects many people, they are wrong by default. Because there are no absolutes. For example, a year ago you might have argued "if you make eviction illegal then no one will pay their rent!" It seems like a simple, common sense argument. And yet here we are. People are paying their rent when no one is forcing them to pay it.
- my neighbour owes $40,000 in backrent and drives a 2019 mercedeshotroddy
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- Don’t they still owe the rent though? It’s not rent forgiveness last I checked. Just defermentmonospaced
- They do owe it in most cases, but in the biggest cities it’s going to be hard to track people down to pay it.********
- hrmmm ... in the big cities, everyone has signed contracts and your social security number, so tracking it down will be insanely easymonospaced
- I know from experience :)monospaced
- I paid rent because our building was incredibly clear that they would evict and collect the moment it was time. They didn't fuck around in NYCmonospaced