How many renters are getting screwed because of the Olympics?  I have
friends who basically being told to get the hell out but leave all their
stuff during the games.  The demands are absurd.  I'm not talking about
what's legal or not.  I'm talking about people who've rented for several
years who are now being getting a new hole burned with a red hot poker.
Too bad they don't offer medals in the Backdoor Screw -- Atlanta would
rake in all the medals.

Richard
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It's true, it's becoming a fact.  My advice to anyone being screwed so
heavily is either A) Contact a lawyer for legal advice and if that craps
out B) Fill the walls with termites and roaches the day you move out.
Luckily, I signed a lease BEYOND the Olympics recently...they could try
and kick me out anyway, but they wouldn't have much of anything to rent
left when I got through with it.

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: richard.a...@lightspeed.com (RICHARD ARGO) wrote:
: >How many renters are getting screwed because of the Olympics?  I have
: It's true, it's becoming a fact.  My advice to anyone being screwed so

It's going to be pretty amusing when all this backfires in the landlord's
faces, especially in the aftermath with a huge housing surplus and post
olympic economic decline. I think everyone in Atlanta who has a spare room
should rent it to an olympic visitor and this little gang rape might
be averted. Time for a new web page, eh? Oh, and if you are getting the
shaft from your landlord you should post the name of the company here so
others may be forewarned.

In message <genepoolDC6ErB....@netcom.com> - genep...@netcom.com (Jim Michael)
writes:
:>
:>: richard.a...@lightspeed.com (RICHARD ARGO) wrote:
:>: >How many renters are getting screwed because of the Olympics?  I have
:>: It's true, it's becoming a fact.  My advice to anyone being screwed so
:>
:>It's going to be pretty amusing when all this backfires in the landlord's
:>faces, especially in the aftermath with a huge housing surplus and post
:>olympic economic decline. I think everyone in Atlanta who has a spare room
:>should rent it to an olympic visitor and this little gang rape might
:>be averted. Time for a new web page, eh? Oh, and if you are getting the
:>shaft from your landlord you should post the name of the company here so
:>others may be forewarned.
:>

What huge housing surplus?  The rental rate here is over 90%, and doesn't
look like it's gonna get any better.  Landlords already have been taking
advantage of the market.  Can you really justify $800 and up for a two
bedroom apartment?  Nothing fancy, just another box in a large development.
How about the 60 notice in most leases?  Totally slanted towards the
landlord.  I have to decide 2 months in advance that I'm gonna move.  Of
course no other landlord will reserve that far in advance and with the tight
rental market, you're not sure if you can get something when the 60 days are
up.

There are no rental laws to speak of in this state.  I've had landlords ask
very personal stuff when I was looking to rent a house.  I've been asked for
1st, last, and equal deposit.  On a house that amounted to $2550.00.  No
mention of getting interest on any of it.

Will this get better?  No.  The state isn't gonna put even neutral laws in
for the rental market.  People will pay what's asked because the rents don't
vary much from complex to complex.  And more and more people are coming here
every day.

The Metro area needs some sort of renters organization to start getting
things put on a more level playing field.

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HEy this is from Vicki not from Bonnie Bradley in my Internet Class.  We
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cniel...@cc.gatech.edu (Carl Alex Friis Nielsen) wrote:

This is the kind of company I would like to rent from.  With all the
recent talk of getting screwed, I think it is only fitting that gestures
of respect for tenants such as these should beget them more business.
Could you supply the name and location of this complex to the net?

john.wuic...@aepi.gatech.edu

Sure thing - its Post Village in Smyrna (Lake Park Dr. - close to the
intersection of Windy Hill Road and Cobb parkway).
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So far the preparations for the Olympic Games have been a bit
of a farce.  We've got the nth iteration of "Whatizit" (Izzy?
whatever).  The Olympic clock downtown caused massive backups
when it was unveiled.  The people in public housing made a big
stink about being moved in order to build an Olympic Village
(future welfare homes).  Now renters are complaining about
their treatment.

Hey renters, why not move to Gwinnett?!  or Cobb?!  or any of
the other metro Atlanta counties?  Atlanta/Fulton County is
imploding with the neglect of its infrastructure and over-
taxation, among other things.

Couple the new area-code scheme with the naked greed of the
rental agencies and the problems noted above and I think by
this time next year people will be fleeing the 404 area to
the 770 area.  And they won't be coming back.

I predict that when the Olympic Games are over the middle
class will have been run out of Atlanta.  Atlanta will have its
rich on the north side, its poor on the south side.  Middle class
people will be living outside 285.  And olympic spending will
be over.

By the way, I don't blame the rental agencies for trying to make
a buck.  I do think they're being a bit short-sighted, however.
I also think this is going to be one last nail in Atlanta's coffin.

Pat
--
Speaking totally for himself

Can you say "urban collapse and decay"?

Welcome to the next urban wasteland, folks... ^_^;;;

Not to say that this will DEFINITELY happen, to be serious, but it IS a
definite possibility. As several of my friend and I have discussed, it's
going to be REALLY interesting to see what happens in Atlanta right AFTER
the Games...

You would have thought they would have learned by LA's example...

The records show, most land-lords that tried this strategy in 1984, lost
their shirts immediately after the Olymoics there... and those who moved
out of the area, stayed away...

Nah, come to think of it, most Atlantans would have simply scoffed and
said "what? Listen to those wacky Californians? They're all crazy anyhow"
^_^ ^_^;;;

Oh well. Those who do not learn from history are destined to repeat it.

Regards,
Gordon.

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