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

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)2/27/2013 5:15:24 am PST

re: #23 Achilles Tang

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 owner of a property shouldn’t be allowed to sell in a way that disrupts the rental agreements that are already there.

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.

That ‘damn good reason’ is often ‘this person has been living here for a long time and rent control means they’re paying substantially less than I could get from a new tenant, so I will use any opportunity to get them out.’.