Landlord's Covid-19 tice to tenants circulates on social media '

[Jay Feldenbaum]

People across the Kansas City area have reacted strongly to a picture circulating on social media of a letter demanding some residents pay rent.

A woman posted the letter her husband noticed while he delivered a meal at a Pleasant Valley apartment complex.

KMBC's investigative reporter Matt Flener reached out to the landlord mentioned in the letter. The woman's son responded.

"She posted the notice on April 1 when some tenants were confused thinking they didn't have to pay rent because they couldn't be evicted. The Clay County order is dated April 3," Chris Jordan said in a response.

Jordan said his 79-year-old mother has been inundated with nasty and threatening phone calls and text messages.

"While the notice she posted may seem to lack compassion, there is no stimulus relief for individual landlords and she still has to pay the insurance, water, public lights, trash pickup, etc for her tenants. Please consider all sides," he wrote.

Source: kmbc.com

[James Wise]

Originally posted by @Account Closed:

Originally posted by @James Wise:

Originally posted by @Jay Feldenbaum:

People across the Kansas City area have reacted strongly to a picture circulating on social media of a letter demanding some residents pay rent.

A woman posted the letter her husband noticed while he delivered a meal at a Pleasant Valley apartment complex.

KMBC's investigative reporter Matt Flener reached out to the landlord mentioned in the letter. The woman's son responded.

"She posted the notice on April 1 when some tenants were confused thinking they didn't have to pay rent because they couldn't be evicted. The Clay County order is dated April 3," Chris Jordan said in a response.

Jordan said his 79-year-old mother has been inundated with nasty and threatening phone calls and text messages.

"While the notice she posted may seem to lack compassion, there is no stimulus relief for individual landlords and she still has to pay the insurance, water, public lights, trash pickup, etc for her tenants. Please consider all sides," he wrote.

Source: kmbc.com

 The general public has been vilifying landlords for decades. This is nothing new. Landlords are the only people in the world who get vilified when people steal from them. Totally insane. I don't see grocery stores giving their food away for free but the bleeding hearts think landlords have a moral obligation to do so.

 If it wasn’t for us, people that can’t afford a home would have nowhere to live. We literally provide shelter to the population that doesn’t own a home. What business is more essential to society than that??

It’s like saying hospitals are evil because they turn a profit....Well, if they didn’t turn a profit, how could they continue to provide you their services?? 

Well I'm going to stop short of the "we provide shelter" rhetoric.....Just as I don't like it when we're inappropriately vilified, I am not going to inappropriately glorify us either. We, just like any other business, provide a product to customers in exchange for payment. That's all we do. That's where our relationship with these people begins and ends. Just like the grocery store, car dealership, Walmart, Home Depot, Attorneys etc......