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Comment by voakbasda | Hacker News Reader

My vacant rental property has been off the market since the pandemic started. It will not go back on the market until this ends. The government is giving renters the legal ability to squat until this is all over. Why would I want to risk end up with an unevictable tenant who could do more damage to my property during that time that their rent is worth?

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I don't blame you in the slightest. My wife and I had been toying with the idea of renting out our current home when we purchase a new one but that's pretty much gone out the window in the past year.

We're not rich and probably will never be...but according to an increasingly larger contingent people on the left we must have Scrooge McDuck money for even _considering_ the idea.

"Normal" suggests the status quo. There's nothing new about normal. Yet the phrasing suggests this new paradigm will become normalized.

The CDC described this as the last extension of the moratorium. It reminded me of, "just one more drink".

Last CDC prescribed extension.. Congress could do whatever they wanted (eg extend it indefinitely) It's going to suck no matter who does what. either tenants or landlords are going to be hurting.. or everyone via taxes.

I've had a hard time squaring the unprecedented labor shortages with the continued moratorium. There will always be edge cases, but how can it be that individuals simultaneously can't find employment and employers can't find employees?

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