What's Next? How About Pay Your Damn Rent?

The Detroit Free Press: With eviction ban set to expire Thursday, landlords and tenants ask: What's next?

Having to pay your rent may just become a thing again, unless Gov Half-Whit decides to extent the eviction ban yet again tomorrow.

Or perhaps not, if the non-paying tenants get their way:

"I feel like it should go through the end of the year," Detroit resident Dana Stuckey said of Whitmer's halt to residential evictions for nonpayment of rent....Though many Michiganders are saving on fuel costs by working from home, Stuckey, 36, who used public transit, said she is using more electricity and air conditioning and had to pay to upgrade her internet service.

Seriously? That's quite the sense of entitlement she's got there.

It's not like she didn't know she needed to pay rent, and with UI kick ups and the stimulus, not to mention she is apparently still has a job where she's working from home all this time, it's rather hard to say you couldn't afford to pay, you just chose not to do so, knowing there would be no consequence form doing so.

How about no to further rent holidays?

Especially because Gov Whitmer failed to pause any foreclosure actions against those landlords who now can't pay the mortgages as their tenants aren't paying rent, letting tenants stay for a whole year rent-free at their landlord's expense is laughable. In short Gov Half-Whit is placing all the burdens on Landlords to curry favor with tenants and providing no relief to landlords while doing so.

Of course, there's more tenants than landlords in Michigan, and the tenants tend to be her backers, so expect her to extend the rent-free-living yet again.