Two Major Woodward Apartments Abandoned...

[Bearinabox]

The stain glass windows of the Highland Towers enterance are still intact thank god but it is only a metter of time before the building is destroyed. When you rent to pigs the pictures shown are the result. In how many other American cities do its own citizens systematically destroy their own city?

Huh? No, this is the result of the landlord going bankrupt and not keeping up with his bills. I don't see how you can blame it on the tenants.

[softailrider]

Huh? No, this is the result of the landlord going bankrupt and not keeping up with his bills. I don't see how you can blame it on the tenants.

If the tenants would have paid their rent the situation probablly would be different.

[Zacha341]

At some point it become a problem of the landlord and the tenants as a vicious cycle. The non-paying squatter types that go from apartment to apartment, end up concentrated in the run down buildings who will take them as they CANNOT BE PICKY... due to the environment in which more consistently paying clientele will NOT rent.

Thus, these building become know for renting to tenants who maybe unemployed or simply not motivated to pay rent regularly. These renters may be able to or choose to pay rent maybe once or twice. And the eviction process and paperwork downtown is backlogged due to the number of people who don't, wont or cant pay rent consistently. And some of the chronic no pay tenants know "system", knowing they can squat for 6 months before the courts finally throw their stuff to the streets.

Or some are section 8 buildings in which the government pays a portion of the rent, yet if tenants don't pay the bills, that could be a cumulative cash flow problem.

Perhaps the original owner will do a quick sale to the fastest slum lord out to make a fast, if temporary buck ala the temporary paying renters and or the section 8 gov cash flow. But the rub is utility companies who are not extending unpaid gas and electric services as they once did. Lights out! Furnace off. Then even the squatters leave. Now what decent renter is going to live amidst all of this?

If the tenants would have paid their rent the situation probablly would be different.