Discrimination ALERT! Against O supporters for Voting Obama

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Reality Bites...I raised their rents today...

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I own a 4 unit complex, where the rent is very affordable. I charge $500/mo for a one bedroom including utilities. I sent out a notice this morning that starting January 1st the rent would be increasing $100 per month.

All four of my tenants are O supporters....you should have heard em cry


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#4 November 5th, 2008, 3:02 pm
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#5 November 5th, 2008, 3:02 pm
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they will probably report you to the police because raising rent on obamarx supporters is a racist hate crime.
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wow where do you live? 600 dollars with utilities is a good deal lol...
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#7 November 5th, 2008, 3:04 pm
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That's one of the risks you take when you rent - the rent can change at any time. They should realize that.

But then, part of the problem we have in the housing market now is the people that took ARM's and then acted all suprised when the interest rates went up, increasing their payments.


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Quote:
Originally Posted by joeysgrandma63
I own a 4 unit complex, where the rent is very affordable. I charge $500/mo for a one bedroom including utilities. I sent out a notice this morning that starting January 1st the rent would be increasing $100 per month.

All four of my tenants are O supporters....you should have heard em cry

that's fine because I believe section 8 covers 100% of the rent. Thanks to the wealthy tax payers


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Why are you raising your rent?
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what is your reason for raising the rent, other than random speculation about your taxes. What "reality" are you referring to?
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So the OP discriminated on the basis of political affiliation? Class act.
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#12 November 5th, 2008, 3:06 pm
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Well that's fair, that's part of what capitalism is about, if a 20% increase in price preemptively isn't better than what else is around, you probably should have been charging that already, but I'm going to assume that there are better deals around and hopefully they take them up or don't wine about it.

It's less reality and business, are you overreacting? Probably but hey if they don't like it they can move out.

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Obama will be sending them the money for their rent anyway. Might as well raise it $300.


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Well either they will find other places that did not raise the rates and then unless you did something to justify the rate increase would eventually loose money by loss of tenants. You do not seem to be following the free market principles that are supposed to be at the core of the republican agenda.
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Quote:
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Why are you raising your rent?


Why is he going to raise my taxes? Why is going to raise my electric bill?


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wow where do you live? 600 dollars with utilities is a good deal lol...

I know that's what I'm thinking! Can I move in? I'll fake being a Republican LOL

Though you really cannot base this on tax hikes. The move from $500 to $600 is a %20 hike. I know of no tax plan that raises taxes to this extreme.
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Are these "tenants" employees of yours too?
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what is your reason for raising the rent, other than random speculation about your taxes. What "reality" are you referring to?

What speculation? Obama made it quite clear ..... well fairly clear.........um, kinda clear? .......well anyway, if the OP makes more than $250K, or maybe $200K, or is it $150K today - her taxes are going to go up.
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Quote:
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Why is he going to raise my taxes? Why is going to raise my electric bill?

He's going to raise your electric bill?

Seriously, why are you raising the rent, just curious. I'm assuming that 1/1/09 is the start of a new lease agreement.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by joeysgrandma63
I own a 4 unit complex, where the rent is very affordable. I charge $500/mo for a one bedroom including utilities. I sent out a notice this morning that starting January 1st the rent would be increasing $100 per month.

All four of my tenants are O supporters....you should have heard em cry

It's his property if he wishes to raise the rent he doesn't have to have a reason other than it is what he wants to do.


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Quote:
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Why are you raising your rent?

Sooner or later everybody has to pay the piper, whether it's higher taxes paid by the landlord or higher rent by the renter.

It's call Obamanomics!


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Quote:
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Why is he going to raise my taxes? Why is going to raise my electric bill?

Your taxes are going up by 20%? Can you provide a link for this? Has Obama passed a tax bill already, even though he doesn't get sworn in until January?
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Quote:
Originally Posted by joeysgrandma63
I own a 4 unit complex, where the rent is very affordable. I charge $500/mo for a one bedroom including utilities. I sent out a notice this morning that starting January 1st the rent would be increasing $100 per month.

All four of my tenants are O supporters....you should have heard em cry

So come Jan 1 you will have four empty units for rent


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Quote:
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So the OP discriminated on the basis of political affiliation? Class act.


I did not. They all had the same political affiliation, and if one happened to be a Republican, his rent would have went up too.


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Joeysgrandma63...you have me laughing...and I think you are being too nice to these people. I rent an apartment and it is nearly 2000 a month for a 2 bedroom. so they are lucky you are so nice. Here is what I am doing now...when I go out to eat I cross out the line that says Tip, and write service was great, but I already paid Obama. send the coolaid drinkers a message that thier income is directly linked to politics. Dems bad for wallet, Conservatives good for wallet...


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You do need to prepare against the financial crisis you will be experiencing, and raising the rent is more than likely the right thing to do.

As for your tenants, they'll have to deal with it or move on. I would never want to raise a tenant's rent for "payback", but if the economy really tanks or if your taxes are raised or if you must pay more for goods and services because of the policies of the Democrats (and the Democrat-inspired mortage crisis is a good example), then they have no one to blame but themselves, I suppose, if they want to find a scapegoat for an increase in their rent.

Of course, you'll be labeled as an evil Capitalist Republican vampire pig because of it, but tough crap. You must do what is reasonable without trying to purposefully create a financial burden on your tenants. Doing it out of spite would be wrong, to put it mildly.

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Quote:
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It's his property if he wishes to raise the rent he doesn't have to have a reason other than it is what he wants to do.

Correct, it just makes him a slightly worse human being.


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Good lord, you'd think the election of Obama was a blank stamp for Conservatives to start acting stupid.


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http://forums.hannity.com/showthread.php?t=1121391

[liberalmuse]

1. There is a federal law against race discrimination.

I hope these people sue these fuckers. Make them bankrupt. And then, after that, send them to hell.

[Captain Lance Bass]

2. FWD THIS!!!

[MaryEllen9399]

3. I think we are going to be hearing a lot more about this sadly nt

[RoccoR5955]

4. I believe that in a lot of areas, you cannot raise rent

for no reason. I haven't rented in a while, but I do know that if the tenants have signed a lease, or a month to month agreement that stipulates rent increases, they can fight it easily in court. If they have no such agreement, they should move asap.

[colonel odis]

5. if they have a lease, he can't raise their rents inside the lease. if he admits that

he raised it because they're obama supporters, then he's probably in for some fair housing issues.

all landlords raise their rents. i suspect this guy's just talking big cause those types will be busy trying to save face in some way during the weeks ahead.

that said, if it were me and this guy came along and willy-nilly raised my rent because i supported obama, i believe i'd have to put about four coats of flat black paint on every wall in the place during my last week living there.

my guess is, he was going to raise the rent anyway january 1.

[gardenista]

8. He's fantasizing.

I guarantee he is just talking out his ass. Repuke slumlords are far too greedy to follow through on their power fantasies. And who does he think he'll get in to replace those four tenants?

Big talk. Small man.

[Captain Lance Bass]

9. FWD This so people know n/t

[unpossibles]

6. ah, the self-fulfilling prophecy...

they will boycott everything, not buy anything, fire liberal employees, and raise rent on liberals... then wonder why they have no money or employees or renters, and blame it on Obama.

We need a Joe the Plumber to flush these turds down the drain to Alaska.

[Ozma]

7. These Freepers are disgusting capitalists who think money

is the most important thing in the world.

I hope that landlord winds up in a heap of trouble, gets fined, gets his face all over local media, loses his tenants and can't find new ones. Greedy vengeful people like this deserve to lose all their good fortune. My opinion.

[Naturyl]

10. This is why I own a trailer.

It's junk and there is a stigma, but it's better than answering to a landlord.

[salin]

11. what an idiot. Either he has been undercharging

if this is well below the local market going rate for rentals (doubtful, but possible), or is willing to lose tenants and months of rent while looking for new tenants. So if three of four do not move right away, but a fourth unit goes unrented - he gets an increase of $300 a month, but a loss of $500 (the lost rent for the empty unit) - net change in income for the instant of feeling good at sticking to the Obama supporters = -200$ a month.

Given that the OPer doesn't state outright that this new rent is comparable to local rents (and admitting that he has been losing about $400 a month by undercharging what the market would bare), it seems safe to infer that this new rent would be higher than comparable rentals in the market.

Typical freeper type, completely ignorant of economic realities and prone to acting on gut instincts even when those instincts tend to be misguided.