Quote Originally Posted by gvidas View Post
But let's not forget that the same laws being abused provide security and stability for every law-abiding person who rents the space they live in. They are even more important for people who have an informal or verbal lease with their landlord, or people whose landlords are amoral, incompetent, or absent.
Exactly.

So the question is this: How do we rewrite the tenant laws to protect the innocent without inadvertently allowing months and months of theft, abuse, and general criminal behavior?

One thing that is for sure, I believe that tenants have the right to due process, but that timeline is way, way, way, too long and too much burden is on the landlords.