In Utah, you can be kicked out of your apartment with no advance notice, for no reason at all. Tenants have no rights here at all. In fact, it’s unlawful to attempt to contact a landlord over any kind of dispute. And, landlords can walk in and take furniture or jewelry or other property from tenants here, at will. Of course most of our legislators are landlords here, so it’s no surprise that all the laws favor them and punish tenants in every possibly way.
Now with rent prices going through the roof here (in P.U. Tah of all places!) most renters are either leaving the state or becoming homeless people.
Yeah I know it’s kind of tangential to the whole government selling the land your house is on thing - it just makes me more sympathetic coming from a state where they believe anything the fed government does is overreach, yet the state lawmakers keep selling off more and more of our national public lands to oil and gas interests. And where tenants are without any rights to fight back about anything.
In Utah, you can be kicked out of your apartment with no advance notice, for no reason at all. Tenants have no rights here at all. In fact, it’s unlawful to attempt to contact a landlord over any kind of dispute. And, landlords can walk in and take furniture or jewelry or other property from tenants here, at will. Of course most of our legislators are landlords here, so it’s no surprise that all the laws favor them and punish tenants in every possibly way.
Now with rent prices going through the roof here (in P.U. Tah of all places!) most renters are either leaving the state or becoming homeless people.
Not to say that those laws aren’t super shitty but: the difference is that you know you’re renting your apartment.
It’s more like the federal government selling the territory your house is on to a different country, without arranging ownership rights.
Yeah I know it’s kind of tangential to the whole government selling the land your house is on thing - it just makes me more sympathetic coming from a state where they believe anything the fed government does is overreach, yet the state lawmakers keep selling off more and more of our national public lands to oil and gas interests. And where tenants are without any rights to fight back about anything.