L.A. County has extended coronavirus-related eviction protections through the end of the year. But many small landlords say they're not going to be able to survive financially without some help for them.
Landlords are finding themselves shut out because government rent relief programs require tenants to be involved in the application process. In some cases tenants refuse to apply. Others earn too much to qualify. Some small landlords say waiting in vain for rent relief has left them financially wrecked.
“I was literally in shock when I was in there,” Laurie said. “I'm like, I don't know how humans could function like that.” “I think it would have been a much speedier process if we weren't in the middle of a pandemic,” she said.Of course, problem tenants have always existed — pandemic or no pandemic. But many small landlords complain that L.A.’s eviction rules provide cover to bad tenants, while leaving landlords to shoulder the cost.
Elizabeth said she and her husband own just four rental units. She said their finances were wrecked by having tenants in one of of the units who stopped paying rent for a year and a half.
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