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Logan Square landlord evicts tenant for flying Palestine flag (chicagoreader.com)
submitted 4 months ago by anachronist@midwest.social to c/chicago@midwest.social
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The scumbag also owns the Logan Theater.

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[–] seathru@lemmy.sdf.org 52 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Fishman sent her maintenance man to deliver a ten-day eviction notice to her door.

Yeah, that's not legal. Hope the tenant finds a good lawyer.

Mun. Code Ch. 5-12-170: Under the 2020 revisions of the RLTO (“Fair Notice Ordinance”), Landlords must provide a tenant that is not in the eviction process: • 30 days of notice to terminate a month-to-month tenancy, decline to renew your lease or raise your rent if you have lived in your apartment for less than six months. • 60 days of notice for the same if you have lived in your apartment for more than six months but less than three years.

One of the high-points in my life was having a landlord show up with the local sheriffs to try and force an eviction that up until this point had only been verbal. I happily showed them the state's tenant laws that said "30 days after written notice is provided" and had a lawyer friend on speed dial if they had any questions. Landlord got so belligerent that the sheriffs escorted them off instead.

Also a PSA: If you rent, know your rights.

[–] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Ten day notice may be given under certain conditions including breach of contract, see ILCS 5-9/210 and Chicago municipal code 5-12-130. And in this case, the landlord claims displaying a flag is a breach of contract.

(Note that the notice means that the lease will end in ten days, which is when eviction proceedings may start. It will take considerably longer for the courts to send a sheriff out to enforce it).

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Landlords can’t legally remove someone from a unit until they’ve filed in court and a judge orders the Cook County Sheriff’s Office to enforce the eviction.

Sounds like he'd have to go through a judge first too.

[–] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

True, at the end of a ten day (or 30 day) notice, the landlord can go to court to force the tenant out. This process will take a while, but it will immediately blacklist the tenant and make it much harder for them to find a new rental.

So in practice, it's often better to leave before the landlord goes to court.

[–] Pfeffy@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I've got some rentals. What is this blacklist you are talking about?

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The list is the municipal public record system and you enter it by setting foot in housing court. A lot of background checks will include that anywhere it is legal to do so.

[–] Pfeffy@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So what happens when you are blacklisted? You become homeless? Aren't there anti-discrimination housing laws?

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't think you become homeless but the options certainly decrease by a lot and the quality won't be as good. Anti-discrimination laws are on the basis of, e.g., race, disability, or family status. Unless there are state laws against checking previous court cases, I don't think there's anything stopping that as a basis for refusing to lease a place.

[–] Pfeffy@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Damn that's brutal. Do they treat landlords the same way? If you get caught stealing security deposits, you weren't allowed to rent to people anymore? I guess I wouldn't mind if it went both ways...

[–] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Just a figure of speech. But getting an eviction proceeding in your rental history report is like getting a bankruptcy in your credit history report.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's probably not an eviction notice, but a "comply or vacate" notice. Journalists often confuse "eviction notice", which is a court order, with the sort of formal written demand notices that tenants are entitled to receive.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't know how many times you need to see people abuse their power before you stop giving parasites the benefit of the doubt.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I'm a professional in the industry.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ah, a group of which is known as an infection.

[–] seahorse@midwest.social 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Landlords?

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And their overseers

[–] seahorse@midwest.social 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Banned him. No admitted landlords on this instance