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If we have to choose between high barriers to renting and tenants rights then something is fundamentally broken.

• bombcar 3y ago
  Anything that increase the hassle/cost of dealing with an actual bad actor will raise the barriers to entry. If a company can fire someone they just hired for basically no reason at all via a layoff, they'll be much more willing to expand quickly and be less thorough in screening applicants. If once they hire someone, they cannot fire them for 40 years without an actual honest-to-goodness crime prosecuted; they'll be more cautious about hiring.
  • pharmakom 3y ago
    There are genuinely bad tenants. There are genuinely bad landlords. The system does a poor job of filtering the two. If the system worked well, good participants from either group would have little to fear from doing business with a bad actor on the other side. The system we have-and that you described well-forces a policy choice between favoring landlords (including the bad ones) or favoring tenants (including the bad ones). It is not a fair and free market.
    • moneywoes 3y ago
      Seems trivial for landlords to filter with credit and reference checks no?