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Debtors Prison in America: 1 Day Late on Rent Can Land You in Jail? in Arkansas

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Achilles Tang2/26/2013 9:24:47 pm PST

re: #15 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

There are also landlords who will use any excuse to evict a tenant once they get a burr up their ass about them, or because they want to flip the property, or convert it to condos, or whatever.

The article didn’t say that landlords did this a lot, but that they could do it if their tenants were even a day late.

The gist of the story is the bit about them going to prison. Do you get that?

Leases provide for termination, normally with notice. So what? Shouldn’t an owner of a property be allowed to decide to sell, as most people will do eventually if they don’t die first and the family decides to sell. What’s wrong with that?

The article says that the day late applies to the 10 day notice that was legally given. Nobody legal evicts on one day late without proper notice to correct. It is ignoring the legally required notices that can result in eviction, and not after one day, and no landlord goes through that process without damn good reason.