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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On the one hand I hate how DC treats landlords, and on the other hand I hate how DC treats landlord.

I hate that they go after small landlords with some of the most tenant tilted protections ever. We no longer rent our 'rental unit' due to the horror stories which = less money for us, less housing for someone else, but less hassle overall.

BUT I also hate stuff like this collusion, or that large tenants aren't disincentivized from having their properties lie fallow for years (or the inverse, which would also apply above--incentivized to rent them).

It's all so awful.[/quote]

The horror stories are truly horrible. There was a case recently where two tenants in SE haven’t paid rent in 3 years, received tens of thousands in COVID rental assistance money, and still haven’t been evicted by tenant court. A friend recently listed their place for rent and has been bombarded by lawsuit trolls running FHA audits. Maybe the city doesn’t realize the protections they afford a relatively small number of total dingbats seeking a free place to live on the back of small landlords screws over just everybody trying to rent a unit in DC or maybe it just doesn’t care.[/quote]

One of the reasons crap landlords can't get their tenants out is because the housing isn't considered habitable enough by the Department of Buildings to consider rentable.  DOB is apparently working on a workaround, because these landlords don't want to go to landlord-tenant court.  [/quote]

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