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I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here. Non-payment of rent is a straightforward sure-fire cause for eviction practically everywhere. Even jurisdict
by Sanzig 3y ago
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here. Non-payment of rent is a straightforward sure-fire cause for eviction practically everywhere. Even jurisdictions that allow a tenant to withhold rent to cover things like emergency repairs usually require a ruling from the housing tribunal to do so.
- josephcsible 3y agoIf you broke your lease and made your final payment in oily pennies, would that ever be okay?
- hapless 3y agoNo, of course not. You are tilting at windmills. No one has suggested non-payment followed by spiteful "payment" would be suitable for a dispute with a landlord. You have invented a villain who does not exist.
- GauntletWizard 3y agoWould you support using the full power of the law to recover lost rent? Significant, state-imposed fines for rent that was withheld but owed, even after eviction?
- hapless 3y agoThat is an important political question that has relatively little to do with intentional, spiteful "payment" There are a number of reasons rents paid to landlords are treated somewhat differently from wages paid to workers! Those are deeply political and important, and not super relevant here In the narrowly relevant question: No one would ever accept a spite-filled "rent" paid to a landlord in the form of oil-covered pennies, provided only as a means of spiting the creditor