Neverending Covid-19 Coronavirus

Indymisanthrope said:
As I understand it, the benefit for NOT being flexible up until now has been that if you have to evict someone it's usually not that tough to fill that space again. But if we hit 40% unemployment like some of the projections suggest, even for a short period, landlords are going to have to confront a reality in which they can choose between working with renters who fall behind, or evicting them in large numbers with no one to replace them.

I've also been reading that Airbnb is taking such an immense hit that property owners are leaving the platform. If they can't rent the properties, a lot of them can't afford to hold onto them, which means there could be a flood of new property supply hitting the market at the same time, which in turn means that the leverage normally held by landlords is weakened even further.
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Yea I don't see why they couldn't work out a payment plan to keep people from vacating. Like tack on an extra 200 a month.
 
Another week down. Still waiting for it to get real busy here. 2 other floors have been designated as the Covid floors, but we still get an occasional rule-out or 2 every now and again....2 were being ruled-out over night and will probably be moved to one of those floors today.

ER was unusually slow - only had 20-30 patients at any given time. Usually they are at 50-100+. The busier they are the more people get admitted which makes us busier.

We are planning for a surge, though. My floor is a 40 bed unit - all single rooms. We have 1 room that is make-shifted to have 2 cots and then all the rooms can then be make-shifted to be doubles. So we could theoretically max at 82 patients. That would be a cluster-fuck.

We don't really think we'll get to that.
 
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LeeVing said:
Another week down. Still waiting for it to get real busy here. 2 other floors have been designated as the Covid floors, but we still get an occasional rule-out or 2 every now and again....2 were being ruled-out over night and will probably be moved to one of those floors today.

ER was unusually slow - only had 20-30 patients at any given time. Usually they are at 50-100+. The busier they are the more people get admitted which makes us busier.

We are planning for a surge, though. My floor is a 40 bed unit - all single rooms. We have 1 room that is make-shifted to have 2 cots and then all the rooms can then be make-shifted to be doubles. So we could theoretically max at 82 patients. That would be a cluster-fuck.

We don't really think we'll get to that.
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Where do people go when they are waiting on their results? Home?
 
GritNGlitter said:
I do own a house and I have worked in property management. Hoarding housing doesn't produce value, it extracts it from others.
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I'm not saying that there shouldn't be more ethical behavior on landlords part, but there is some value in having property owners. If practiced ethically (big if) they can both provide a service in exchange for value from others. Is the market set up to encourage them to act ethically? Not really. How do we encourage them to think more long term in a situation like this?
 
RenegadeMonster said:
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Teeeee said:
What in the actual fuck? They are evicting people for working from home???? That is awful, ridiculous, near-sighted, cruel and dangerous.
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There's an r/legaladvice thread linked to in those comments that seems to be addressing the Tennessee letter. It sounds like thankfully that letter shouldn't hold up legally and if it isn't a sick joke the homeowner/tenant should have other options as well.
 
Dtknuckles said:
Where do people go when they are waiting on their results? Home?
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Some do...if they don't need hospitalization. The rest get admitted to a floor/unit. We treat them as being positive until the test comes back. A lot of PPE is wasted in the days waiting for the test to come back negative.

These new tests that only take minutes will be really nice to finally see in use.
 
dhodo said:
There's an r/legaladvice thread linked to in those comments that seems to be addressing the Tennessee letter. It sounds like thankfully that letter shouldn't hold up legally and if it isn't a sick joke the homeowner/tenant should have other options as well.
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Yeah, I have read much of the same else where.

Tennessee has a law that requires them to notify home owners and tenants first and give them a change to correct. This letter does not do that. We do not know if there were any prior letters. Even if there was prior notification, this likely would not legally hold up in court. However, it is the homeowners burden or tenants to fight this and occur legal expenses.
 
Searching Google News there are all kinds of issues with HOA's right now.

The most common has been with quarantine RV's/Trailers.

Nurses and doctors who are working the front lines have parked RV's and Trailers in their driveways to stay in as quarantine. Especially if a member of their family is a member of the highly vulnerable population, either elderly or has pre-existing conditions.

For those who have asked their HOA for an exception to the rule, the answer was no.
For those who did it anyways or went ahead without seeking prior approval violations were issued. One nurse was told she would be fined $100 a day the RV remains parked in the driveway.

When local news stations reached out to the HOA's they either got "rules are rules" answers or exceptions were made. But sadly, I have only read one article about a nurse Washington State who was given an exception after all after a week long of media coverage on the issue.
 
RenegadeMonster said:
Searching Google News there are all kinds of issues with HOA's right now.

The most common has been with quarantine RV's/Trailers.

Nurses and doctors who are working the front lines have parked RV's and Trailers in their driveways to stay in as quarantine. Especially if a member of their family is a member of the highly vulnerable population, either elderly or has pre-existing conditions.

For those who have asked their HOA for an exception to the rule, the answer was no.
For those who did it anyways or went ahead without seeking prior approval violations were issued. One nurse was told she would be fined $100 a day the RV remains parked in the driveway.

When local news stations reached out to the HOA's they either got "rules are rules" answers or exceptions were made. But sadly, I have only read one article about a nurse Washington State who was given an exception after all after a week long of media coverage on the issue.
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HOAs are the refuge of failed petty tyrants denied banana republics to oppress.
 
RenegadeMonster said:
Searching Google News there are all kinds of issues with HOA's right now.

The most common has been with quarantine RV's/Trailers.

Nurses and doctors who are working the front lines have parked RV's and Trailers in their driveways to stay in as quarantine. Especially if a member of their family is a member of the highly vulnerable population, either elderly or has pre-existing conditions.

For those who have asked their HOA for an exception to the rule, the answer was no.
For those who did it anyways or went ahead without seeking prior approval violations were issued. One nurse was told she would be fined $100 a day the RV remains parked in the driveway.

When local news stations reached out to the HOA's they either got "rules are rules" answers or exceptions were made. But sadly, I have only read one article about a nurse Washington State who was given an exception after all after a week long of media coverage on the issue.
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What is wrong with people????

No, you can not safely quarantine outside of your house in an RV because of our ridiculous rules, so get inside and expose your family!!!! BECAUSE OF RULES!!! WHAT WILL PEOPLE THINK IF WE HAVE AN RV IN THE DRIVEWAY!! OUR PRECIOUS RULES!

Fuck HOAs.
 
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