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minus-squareBlue_Morpho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up34arrow-down4·1 day agoIt depends. I don’t know how many rentals are mortgaged vs owned. I suspect they can evict you faster than they run out of cash.
minus-squareDarorad@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up70·1 day agoMost states have eviction laws limiting their power, and often part of a tenant union is a lawyer to stall
minus-squarethefartographer@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up25·1 day agoHi, Texas checking in. What’s… “limited power”?
minus-squareClassStruggle@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36arrow-down1·1 day agoTheir power in Texas is huge. Dont pay rent, the landlord can seize ANY non essential possessions of the tenant. Evictions take as little as 45 days.
minus-squarecircuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up37·1 day agoOne more reason why Texas is a shithole.
minus-squareBotzo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22·1 day agoThey call it the lone star state because everyone is the star of their own movie about rugged individualism, or so I’ve heard.
minus-squareobvs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·edit-21 day agoNo, people misunderstand. It’s a rating, not a slogan.
minus-squareTolookah@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up14·1 day agoOnly because you can’t select zero
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 day agoOkay so you know how you lose electricity in the winter?
minus-squarethefartographer@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up9·1 day agoI think I follow… Is my landlord Ted Cruz? Rent is my landlord’s daughters’ fault???
minus-squarethefartographer@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 day agoShit. All we have are all these guns, gallons of stupid, and no spines. Is that what you mean by being without power?
It depends. I don’t know how many rentals are mortgaged vs owned. I suspect they can evict you faster than they run out of cash.
Most states have eviction laws limiting their power, and often part of a tenant union is a lawyer to stall
Hi, Texas checking in. What’s… “limited power”?
Their power in Texas is huge. Dont pay rent, the landlord can seize ANY non essential possessions of the tenant. Evictions take as little as 45 days.
One more reason why Texas is a shithole.
They call it the lone star state because everyone is the star of their own movie about rugged individualism, or so I’ve heard.
No, people misunderstand.
It’s a rating, not a slogan.
Only because you can’t select zero
The lone star is the rating
Okay so you know how you lose electricity in the winter?
I think I follow… Is my landlord Ted Cruz? Rent is my landlord’s daughters’ fault???
*does not apply to texas
Shit. All we have are all these guns, gallons of stupid, and no spines. Is that what you mean by being without power?