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4 June 2020 | 4 replies
With the pandemic and now the protests, I am finding it hard to find open showrooms.Where are you guys finding open showrooms?
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26 June 2020 | 22 replies
Now fast forward to 2014-2015, > 10 years has passed and not a single major attack has occurred in Manhattan, so they decided to close these offices for the most part and moving most back to Manhattan. 5 years later Covid-19 happens, and now protest & riots where you can't safely go into an big office building anymore in NYC.
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18 September 2020 | 49 replies
MLK protested, BLM is NOT "protesting" as it burns areas down.
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10 June 2020 | 22 replies
As to what @Marc Winter said, I think the protests lack of social distancing and the fact that no one seemed to care shows that most of the rules set down are political and not truly based on science.
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9 June 2020 | 0 replies
There are protests for about everything else; maybe it's time for landlords to exercise our constitutional rights to due process of law ?!
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27 April 2020 | 3 replies
…This is really a protest that’s aimed at the government.”A number of New York-based tenant groups that have had some recent success pushing for rent-related reforms, including the Upstate/Downstate Housing Alliance and New York Communities for Change, called for a statewide strike of 1 million renters earlier this month.About one-third of U.S. households are renters, and nearly half of them were paying more than 30% of their incomes on rent and utilities before the coronavirus pandemic struck, according to the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.
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15 May 2020 | 27 replies
Now that we are here other than protesting the government actions what else can we do to take control of our REI businesses.
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10 May 2020 | 10 replies
May 1 was a rent strike/protest across many cities.
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14 May 2020 | 4 replies
I see some state representatives like Summer Lee are introducing bills that cancel rent and mortgage payments.I am curious how this works for Investors that own property free and clear but depend on rent for income.https://www.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/more-than-50-protest-in-pittsburgh-calling-for-a-nationwide-rent-and-mortgage-freeze-during-coronavirus-pandemic/Content?
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3 June 2020 | 21 replies
If it’s not rented out by July 1st it won’t be the end of the world but I absolutely want to have a tenant living there sometime in the month of July.As far as how the protests and demonstrations that have been going on in Philly has affected my house, it hasn’t directly.