mikechristine1 Your absolutely right!
So, here are some FACTS for those who claim landlords are deadbeats and they must pay their taxes.
Here are some financial FACTS.
Person buys a two family house for $100,000 100% financing for 30 year mortgage.
Person does some upgrades to the house, such as put in updated kitchens and baths and loan is $30,000 ( And I can state unequivocally that the FACE is that two kitchens and two baths would cost way far more than $30,000 so we will say this is particle board cabinets) and is going to pay it back over 10 years at 7%
Coimbined city, county, school, water, sewer, and trash costs are $7200 a year.
The FACT is that the monthly expense to the property owner is follows:
Monthly mortgage (principal plus interest) on a 30 years mortgage at 4% would be just about $500 per month.
PMI probably $50 per month
Monthly cost for home improvement loan of $30,000 for 10 years at 7% would be about $350 per month
Taxes of $7,200 divided up over 12 months would be $600 per month.
So monthly expense to the property owner is $1,500. (Just an FYI, I have not even included insurance, cost of light bulbs in common areas, installing new locks, purchase of trash cans, recycle cans, etc)
So owner decided $750 is a good rental cost per month.
But upon renting to people who receive assistance, we'll say that the government decides the rent is to be $600 per month for each flat. Each tenant has an income of $1,200 per month. Each tenant therefore will pay $400 pre month out of their own income and the govt will contribute 200 for each tenant. Thus
Tenant A pays $400 toward rent
Government pays $200 for tenant A
Tenant B pays $400 toward rent
Government pays $200 for tenant B
That makes a total of $$1,200 per month total income this owner derives from this city house. But remember, the owner's expenses total $1,500 per month.
The property owner is IN THE RED BY $300 per month!!!!!!!!!!!
But people like DV claim this is a deadbeat
I don't know what the going rate is for various size apartments. Does anyone know if it could be as high as $750?
But supposed the tax bill was $6,000. that's $500 a month. so that saves the owner just $100 a month
STILL IN THE REDFor a two family house costing $100,000 for which the owner updates the kitchen's and baths, installs new carpeting, redoes the electrical, the owner needs to collect closer to $850 to $900 per month in rent for each flat.
(Now is DV willing to pay $900 a month in rent IN the city??????? He avoids the city like the plague, won't even put his pinky toe within city boundaries)
Landlords simply cannot get conventional tenants (i.e., not receiving some govt assistance) in the city and that is a FACT in probably more than 90% of the rental units.
And even a dream tenant might get a job transfer or something and the leaves at the end of the lease. Then the owner may have to go without that income for several months.
Sure, there are the bum landlords like Popolizio. But there could be good landlords too but even they cannot afford to pay the taxes
they are NOT deadbeats, they just cannot collect enough to pay the mortgage, insurance, and taxes.
So they abandon the properties because the city is making them pay for the taxes for the millionaire political cronies downtown, and the government will not pay them enough in rent to meet the expenses.