The Wolf of Main Street: Evictions come fast and cheap in the Midwest U.S., where few protections...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

David Weigel Retweeted

This is a story about Monarch, the fastest growing landlord in the Midwest.

@sarahsholder
and I tracked how Monarch uses evictions to squeeze tenants and spike rents — "popping the clutch," as Monarch's CEO puts it — even when evictions were banned.

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The Wolf of Main Street
Evictions come fast and cheap in the Midwest U.S., where few protections exist and tenants are rarely guaranteed counsel. Here’s a story of a mega-landlord, a [/div

This is also a story about Matthew Chase, a lawyer-influencer who files evictions for Monarch in St. Louis and hosts a show where he advised lawyers on how to get around eviction bans.

Watch a shocking clip from that show: https://bloom.bg/3MdwuDn

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[Tadpole Raisin]

1. This is both outrageous and avoidable. For those people who don't live in a

consumer friendly state you don’t realize how unprotected you are. Of course most (but not all) of the bad states are run by republicans…surprise.

Even if your situation is covered by federal law enforcement is often lacking and you are railroaded.

https://www.nclc.org/issues/how-well-do-states-protect-consumers.html#:~:text=emerging%20forms%20of%20deception%20or,consumers%20of%20all%20the%20states.

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“UDAP protections in Michigan and Rhode Island—the “terrible two”—have been gutted by court decisions that interpret the statute as being applicable to almost no consumer transactions. These decisions were issued over ten years ago, yet the state legislatures still have not corrected them.

In addition to Michigan and Rhode Island, seven states—Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Ohio, and Virginia—exempt most lenders and creditors from UDAP statutes, while another 14 leave significant gaps or ambiguities in their coverage of creditors.

Utility companies in 14 states enjoy immunity from UDAP laws, as do insurance companies in 21 states.

Nine states—Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, New York, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin—prevent consumers from enforcing certain key prohibitions in the statute, or enforcing it against certain businesses such as lenders, insurance companies, or sellers of real estate.”

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The best states Are Hawaii, Massachusetts, Vermont, Illinois, and Connecticut.

https://fairshake.com/consumer-guides/best-consumer-rights-laws-by-state/

Seems to me this would be an excellent topic to run on in an election.

[yankee87]

2. The Poor Getting Screwed Over?

I wish I could say I am surprised, but this has been going on since the beginning of time. In this country we had a small sliver of time from FDR to Jimmy Carter that the poor and middle class had some equality, but since Ronnie Raygun the Idiot we have been losing those rights. Also let's face it, most judges are right wing fascists bought and paid for by the 1%.

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R