Renters need to pay the rent. Or move out.
Renting a house is a business (“We have an eviction crisis in North Carolina,” Sept. 24). You, the tenant, made a promise. If you cannot honor that promise, please vacate my home, so I can re-rent it. Evictions force tenants to move out when they cannot or will not honor a lease, but won’t vacate.
The landlord is not responsible for paying for your housing. The tenant should be looking for extra work or to a family-member, friend, or agency to help them out, before the rent is due. I fail to see how an attorney could help, once we get to court.
Current eviction laws favor the tenant. It takes six weeks to evict. The landlord must store belongings for 30 days. The landlord foots the bill for three to four month’s rent, clean-up costs, advertising, and court expenses. The security deposit covers very little of this.
The recent eviction article’s picture of poor, hard-working, child-like tenants is simplistic. In my experience, the issue is usually a matter of personal responsibility.
S.M. Cope
Apex
Renaming lagoons
I believe it is a term of art, but let’s stop referring to hog waste “lagoons.” This gives idyllic South Sea bodies of water a very bad reputation. Water containing large amounts of hog feces are what are called “cesspools” when human wastes are involved. Calling things by realistic names is needed to have realistic approaches to the problems surrounding them.
Michael Rulison
Raleigh
Kavanaugh targeted
Judge Kavanaugh is a man of honor and integrity with an exemplary history of personal conduct. That means he is everything the Democrats and their fellow schemers in the lying media (they are not the “fake” media – they are the lying media) are not.
That is the reason they seek to destroy him. People that evil cannot abide anyone who is good or wholesome. Democrats ideal woman is a porn star – their favorite past president is an accused rapist and their new spokesman is the lunatic Maxine Waters. That should provide some idea of the danger to our country, to our liberty and to our very lives posed by voting for a Democrat.
John E. Lane
Charlotte
Investigation needed
I’ve always been an Independent and would like to stay that way, but it’s getting difficult.
What seem to be credible allegations of sexual assault have been lodged against Judge Brett Kavanaugh. His accuser (and ostensible victim) has requested an FBI investigation before proceeding with his confirmation. The president has been less than truthful in his comments that “it’s not their job” to investigate. Really? Not their job to investigate? The Federal Bureau of Investigation?
This is a lifetime appointment and should be above politics. An impartial investigation of this matter is needed before any voting takes place, both to assure us that Kavanaugh is the best choice for the Supreme Court and that the Republican Party is still deserving of Independents’ consideration when we vote.
Relief funding
U.S. Rep. George Holding, R-NC, has reportedly co-sponsored a bill to reduce some income taxes for victims of Hurricane Florence. However, his proposed legislation would not affect the recipients until next year. What is needed is rapid, hefty allocations of funds to provide immediate aid. I presume Rep. Holding will support these more immediate efforts, especially in light of President Trump’s recent promise to provide “a lot of money” to help the victims.
However, Rep. Meadows, R-NC, is demanding that any federal aid legislation must carry with it cuts to other programs to pay for the aid without adding to the deficit that the GOP relatively recently expanded dramatically by giving a tax cut to the wealthy and corporations. Let’s hope that Rep. Holding will be more generous in support of victims.
Larry Wolf
Garner
Super PACs
Most Americans are appalled by the flow of money in politics — except for the few that are buying and selling influence. Meet the one who raised the water level in the swamp: Brett Kavanaugh. In 2009, Kavanaugh wrote a decision that created Super PACs. He wrote that these committees are “entitled to raise and spend unlimited money in support of candidates for elected office.” That paved the way for the 2010 Citizens United case.
Before he entered the swamp, Trump called Super PACs “very corrupt,” “a scam” and “a disaster.” Now that he is firmly mired in the swamp, he has nominated Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court. On the highest court, we need someone who will be a check to the influence of money in the legislative and executive branches, not someone like Kavanaugh.