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  So essentially they waited until Christmas to do anything about their situation and now want a Christmas miracle. And somehow it’s Habitat for Humanity’s fault and they are now responsible for them?
context: So, she hadn't paid her rent in 12 years, she did not own the house, she hadn't paid taxes in 4 years even though it was a part of her agreement to do so.  The house was sold in summer of 2021 for tax forfeiture.  The evection was tried earlier in the month, and the sheriff delayed it. A lot to this story that is skipped. >
  
  Agree. Living in a house for any amount of time does not equate to ownership. Pay ya bills and this ain’t an issue. >
  
  Being in the apartment industry, and seeing how strongly eviction laws favor tenants in almost every situation, there is absolutely zero reason to feel bad for someone who gets physically evicted. >
  
  The law favors landlords in North Carolina. If a tenant fights in court and loses every step of the way, they are still often physically removed within 30 days of a landlord taking it to court. I hear on the scanner people being evicted and the police and sheriff's office often have to send multiple units to remove people when they refuse to leave the premises. There was one on Christmas Eve.  
  Still, there is not enough money you could pay me to be a property manager or to offer a property of mine for rent. I've seen too many horror stories. >
  
  My sister-in-law was lied to about what her new job was going to be as a property manager and instead of doing what she used to do as a property manager at her old job, the new one changed it to where she was only doing evictions. She is so pissed off by this because she hates doing evictions due to all of the stress and risk to her and anyone else involved. Plus she had a conscience and absolutely hates evictions during the holidays. 
  Needless to say, she's looking for a new job and is considering doing OnlyFans and sell pics of her or feet watch dudes fap to make money while looking for a new job. At least that what she said she is considering. >
  
  There must be quite a niche for a pornstar that does house evictions. >
  
  She's no porn star but she knows of women who make bank selling pics of their feet on OnlyFans. Foot fetish dudes have a thing for her and my wife's feet for some reason, I cannot understand it for the life of me.  My other sisters-in-law do not get requests for feet pics only the both of them - literally just sitting on a bench or on a lounge at a pool and some random dude is all excited to see their feet and asks them if he could take a pic.
  I mean, if you don't have to be naked and only show pics of your feet, wtf not? >
  
  My dad does a lot of the finance side for a habitat region and some of the details are really interesting. The whole mission is to keep people HOUSED, but there’s a lot of personal responsibility that you agree to as well. When you take out a mortgage, the bank is taking on that risk, when Habitat helps you get into a house, Habitat is taking on that risk and there’s a shitload of hoops they have to jump through to guarantee the hugely reduced rates that they can provide. One person or family not paying the reduced rates that they committed to makes it harder for Habitat to get the next family into a home. 
  I know the optics of this story are rough, but the whole point is that Habitat works WITH people/families… They’re also crazy lenient and willing to help/work with families in tough financial situations because, yaknow, that’s their whole fricken mission statement. To even get to the point of eviction (something my dad is also dealing with) you literally have to go years not paying AND not communicating… If I go a month without paying my mortgage or communicating with my bank, you better believe they’re coming a knocking…
  Edit: My apologies, I was talking about some different things in my post than the situation described in the article. To finish my thought, it sounds extremely unlikely to me that all of this was somehow happening behind the residents back without them knowing… that’s the part of this whole situation that stinks to me, and I used the anecdote above to try and describe how much work Habitat does to avoid situations exactly like this. >
  
  Habitat bought a foreclosed home. The family never left it. The Ithaca Tenants Union tried to raise enough to pay back Habitat but they failed by a significant margin.  Habitat had the family evicted because they never went through that approval process. >
  
  Honestly how are you in a home for 38 years and not pay off the mortgage?
  This should in no way have been a shock to them. >
  
  My dad kept refinancing our house with the result being that the house I bought for 69,5 in 1997 still showed 72k owed when I moved back in 2006. It’s down to 32k now, but  it should have been paid off a long time ago >
  
  I have had more than a few people suggest I refinance my house and take the cash out of it? WHY would I ever do that? Makes no sense. There is nothing I want so much that I would screw with my equity I worked so hard to build. >
  
  You are brilliant. Your advisors are idiots. Keep doing exactly what you are doing. The people telling you to take out equity will just shrug their shoulders and look the other way if you ever got into financial difficulty. >
  
  Thanks. Right now, it makes less sense than ever because my loan's interest rate is about 4 points lower than the refinanced rate would be. My house has tripled in value since the pandemic, but that will change again, I am sure. Nothing lasts forever, but I am trying to have some common horse sense about everything. 🙂 >
  
  "What are you gonna do? Kick me out on Christmas?"
  
  Man who didn't pay his mortgage for a year and was kicked out on Christmas >
  
  Didn't pay taxes for 4 years, had a year after Habitat bought the house to pay them $15k to keep the house, 9k of which was raised by the tenants union, and still failed to do so. >
  
  Mind you, we keep glossing over the $9k gathered but came up short came from the tenants union, not the individual.  The individual still had no ability or intent to pay. >
  
  I said that. >
  
  My point is that it deserves more emphasis—that it still wasn’t them. >
  
  Read the article, “properly” is the correct word and no quotes needed. 
  It hadn’t been their home since august 2021, when the habitat for humanity bought it legally. 
  Sure it’s Christmas, but it’s the second Christmas they were living in a house they didn’t own that got foreclosed on. 
  How
  Many Christmas should they be allowed to live in a house that isn’t theirs? >
  
  The reason properly is in quotes is because it's quoting someone who called it "properly" >
  
  No, because the rest of the quote isn't in quotes.
  These are called scare quotes. >
  
  What’s a scare quote? >
  
  Serves the same purpose as saying “supposedly” or “allegedly” or “so-called”. In this instance, saying that they were “properly” evicted means that the writer believes that the legal requirements were followed to the letter but that it was still a super crappy thing to do. It ignores the facts of the situation, which are that the family was essentially squatting for the last year and that the timing was unfortunate but that they had already been given a much longer grace period to gtfo than anyone should expect. >
  
  Oh, so like air quotes >
  
  I don't know if you meant this to be funny, but thanks for the chuckle