What Did Landlords Learn After the Eviction Drama of 2020/2021

 I suspect over the next hundred days.....two things will come up and be a sort of 'lessons-learned' experience.

First, I think landlords are going to be extremely tough on knowing the future rental clients, and ask for a complete background check.  It won't be a 100-percent of them, but I would imagine around two-thirds of all landlords will be checking the past history.  If you were part of this no-pay crowd?  You probably won't find that many landlords willing to give you a fresh new chance.   

Second, something of a legal nature is going to be added to rental contracts....where you sign for a 'damages-clause', and if you fail on rent for an excessive period (probably four months)....you agree to a fee (maybe up to $1,000 or more) to be paid as a settlement upon eviction.  

The rental properties of value?  Those landlords will not be happy over the losses, and this will be a harsh new reality for the renting crowd to get used to over the next decade.  

So to this final prospective of mine....I think the mobile-home properties will start to be fairly popular with the eviction crowd.  You will find a cheapo $6k used trailer and park it for less than $200 a month, in a crappy trailer-park.  

Ten Things That Don't Make Sense

 1.  The idea of a mandated vaccination digital passport being 'Ok'....but a mandated ID (either plastic, or digital) for voting not Ok?

2.  The idea that 25-percent of your daily news is 'gut-America' being well received?

3.  The continued fake-use of the word 'bipartisan' in politics?

4.  Geraldo Rivera looks the same today, as he did in 1991?

5.  If you asked a thousand people what the Watergate incident was about....only about 30 of them can answer that question. 

6.  News on CNN would cease to exist if the House/Senate took a two-month long no-work period, and all were forced to exit DC (go home).

7.  Probably over 30-percent of Americans can name the governor of NY (Cuomo) but not name their own state governor.

8.  There are now more people portraying hypocritical-fake behavior than genuine behavior.

9.  If you had a public poll over trust....with only the CDC, and FEMA.....FEMA  would likely win by a score of two to one.

10.   There's just as much interest in Charles Manson today....as in 1969.  Nothing has lessened.  

Hysteria-Prone

 In the old days (at least before 2000).....most people defined hysteria as a psychological disorder which meant you needed to visit a particular doctor and probably spend four weeks at a special clinic.  

These were people that professed that they'd seen hovering alien UFOs near their barn and they'd gone into a 'turbo-like' mental decline.  They weren't dangerous, but they weren't 'trusted' to the degree they'd been before.  

A great example of hysteria is the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692/1693.  In this small community of a couple hundred folks....a couple of these teenage girls had reached a stage of hysteria that they truly believed themselves or others were engaged in witchcraft.  In a matter of days, they had the entire village driven by this belief and were willing to destroy the stability of the village to get to the bottom of the witchcraft business.  

The chief people in the middle of this?  Oddly enough....those who weren't consumed with the passion or determination of the Puritan 'lifestyle' and religious cause.  Obviously, without the passion....they must be connected to Satan.

How many died during this witch process?  Nineteen.

If I look around today....via Twitter, Facebook, CNN, and a dozen-odd news or social media players....I see the same type of hysteria being played out.  

There is social justice hysteria.  There's Covid hysteria.  There's vaccination hysteria.  There's gender hysteria.  There's border hysteria.  There's eviction hysteria.  There's college loan hysteria.  There's environmental, climate-change and global-warming hysteria.  There's Marxism hysteria.  There's capitalism hysteria.  There's defund-the-police hysteria.  

If you flipped the local news on at 6 AM.....there's various examples of hysteria being played-out even in your local town or region.  As you drive to work.....hype-radio wants you to get hysteria over a dog-attack, fire-ants, or some crazy women who was naked along highway 44.  

In simple terms.....the mess is just feeding you day after day.  

So chill out....skip the news for a few days.  Go camping for a week.  Paint the barn roof.  Shoot off some fireworks.  

Life's too short to waste it on a hyped-up hysteria campaign.