Comments on: Mayor Hotline July 17 – 21

By: bikeboy

bikeboy — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:30:21 +0000

Poor Charlotte – the good-hearted woman took in a homeless neighbor as a favor, and he’s still there, and refusing to budge, 24 years later! She might as well’ve had a child, huh? (nudge nudge, wink wink) Back in the day, common sense would have prevailed… she could’ve sent this grifter packing. Nowadays the poor lady has to hire a lawyer and pack up her oxygen gear and go to court. (I’d love to see some social pressure put on this bum; maybe Dee Sarton can get the community’s collective outrage to the point where we’ll convene with torches and pitchforks.)

Equally interesting are the (several) messages from the Petersens on Forsythia Drive.

They’ve got the downtown brawl problem all figured out. Those drunk kids and young adults? They’re LONELY! They just need some (city-sponsored) activities as an alternative to drinking and stabbing one another. Jan is absolutely sure they would come in droves to attend Team Dave dating classes. I would suggest they combine it with some Shealy/Clegg foxtrot/cha-cha lessons, and Vern’s etiquette training (which fork to eat your salad with, and stuff like that).

(I was in Boise in the 70s; I’m trying to remember police in riot-gear chasing naked people through Julia Davis Park. Could she be mixing up Boise with, um… San Francisco maybe?)

By: Sharon Ullman

Sharon Ullman — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 01:05:36 +0000

Patman – Okay, I definitely see your point. Then I guess maybe we need to go back to Tam’s suggestion and have a few buff guys (or gals) go help encourage this fellow to find himself “standing” in someone else’s home! 😉

By: Patman

Patman — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 04:11:54 +0000

Sharon,
Legally, this guy has ‘standing’ in the home. i.e. He is not a short term visitor or guest and the home owner has allowed him to move into the home lock, stock, and barrel. The payment of rent and/or a lease are not required to obtain standing – just the answer to a simple question: Would a reasonable person believe that he lives there? If yes, then he has legal rights including the right to stay until evicted by a judge.

Here are some hypothetical scenarios: A single man purchases his home. He then allows his girlfriend to move into the house. She never works, is never put on any bills, never pays rent, and the house remains in his name. They then have relationship problems and the male wants her to leave. He can’t force her because she now has ‘standing’ in the home even though she may never have contributed financially (and he never asked her to).

Next: An elderly man asks a friend to move in to his home rent free /w no lease. The only oral agreement is that the friend will perform certain housekeeping chores and run an occasional errand. After 1 year, the man wants the friend to leave. Since the friend now has ‘standing’, the only way to force him/her out is through eviction.

My point is that the truth is usually somewhere in the middle in tenant situations and the law recognizes this. While there may be no written lease or any rent paid, there may be some other services or agreements made by both parties.

The moral of both stories: Be careful who you allow to live in your home!

By: Sharon Ullman

Sharon Ullman — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 01:10:35 +0000

It is one thing for a rent-paying tenant, with a rental agreement, to be protected from wrongful eviction. If there is no rental agreement, and this man is not paying rent and apparently never has (?!!!) however, why should the poor woman have to go to court to have him evicted? It would seem to me that at this point the man is trespassing and should be arrested if he refuses to leave peacefully. Maybe an attorney out there can explain why this no-longer-welcome house guest would have so many rights in this situation.

By: Tam

Tam — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 18:59:54 +0000

Can’t Bikeboy and some of you other buffed up male folk go to Cameron Street and knock the smile off Freeloaders face for Miss Charlotte? Please?! (see page 2)