For some fighting tenants, the ban on posting an extension is not enough

Once the term expires, many of these tenants will be expected to pay the full rent or come up with some kind of payment plan with their landlord – or they may face the loss of their home.

The CNN business spoke to many tenants who are struggling to afford their monthly payments as a result of the epidemic.

‘Money hurts against me’

Kelly Green, who lives in her 1,429-month apartment apartment at Daytona Beach, Florida, has not been able to pay rent since September.

“The only reason I have a roof over my head is because of the evacuation front,” Green said.

Green makes crystal- and sequin-biker apparel for her stay at motorcycle rallies and other festivals.

After the shutdown in March, there were no festivals, no occasions and no income. Still, she managed to get current on her rent until July, along with her savings, stimulus payments, rent relief and unemployment insurance payments. But she did not know how she would meet the $ 600-a-week supplemental unemployment support.

Lee heard about the coronavirus-related rental relief fund offered by Volusia County, where he lives. He applied for assistance and was paid $ 4,500 for three months’ rent.

“I thought, ‘Great!’ It will pay a few months’ rent, and I can exit in November when my current lease expires and I still have a good credit rating that will allow me to rent another apartment. “

Without that money, Green October was unable to pay the full rent for October, November or December. And since she overpaid the lease in November, she’s now on a month-to-month lease that’s $ 500 more expensive per month.

“Even if the suspension is extended, money is being raised against me,” he said. “If I get a check for rent for three months, they will help me the most if they take it.”

She knows she doesn’t understand how to stay and take care of her growing amount, but she said she doesn’t know where she will go without putting friends and family at risk of coronavirus.

“It makes you completely indifferent,” he said. “You feel like giving up. Where will I go when the CDC’s order expires, and this is emptied on my record?”

May be out by Christmas

The Mercedes Darby lives in a three-bedroom apartment in Nashville with her three high school-age children and her daughter, Princess Thomas, who is in college. The two usually split the rent. But since the two were released in March, they have not been able to pay મહિના 1,250 a month in rent since April and currently owe 9 9,000 in back rent and fees.

Although Darby provided his landlord with a CDC declaration, which saves the family from being evicted for non-payment, they are now being prosecuted for a separate lease violation – Darby’s name is not on the lease.

Darby says the lease is in Thomas’ name, but let there be years since they got the apartment, she has lived there and paid for it all.

After missing the December 15 eviction court date, there was a default ruling that gave the family 10 days off. So Darby is packing everything she owns to put in storage.

“We have to get out of Christmas Day or they’ll be sheriffs here,” Darby said after the verdict. “Since I don’t have money, I have to find a temporary place.”

Darby was fired in March from a job handling member services at a large insurance company. She had been looking for a new apartment since July. But even after paying the application fee, she was repeatedly denied due to her credit history and previous bankruptcy. Now his daughter is also likely to get into trouble due to this venture.

In November, Darby was released for a similar job and the money started coming in again. But now she has to pay more in fees due to her history and deposit money for the apartment part.

He said, ‘I have a good paying job.’ “That’s enough if you don’t want three times the next amount.”

At the moment, she is looking for a place to stay for the holidays for her family when she gets a more permanent home and prepares her court date in February on the rest of her rent.

“We have nowhere to go,” he said. “We don’t have a family here and our friends can’t take us all. I’ll try to find a hotel. But it will take all the money to put with the other one.”

Waiting for rent relief

Brian Clift’s job as a waiter in suburban Minneapolis dried up last March, at the same time his 10-year-old daughter Aila’s school moved online. Isla’s mother, whom she did not see regularly, Died a few weeks ago. Clift is now about $ 2,000 behind in rent and is in danger of being evicted from the house.

“My daughter is what I got.” “I put her ahead of everything. The most important thing is to make sure she has a roof over her head and food on the table.”

During the summer, with the unemployment insurance payments he received, he recovered. But when the પૂર 600 in weekly supplementary payment expired, he feared he would fall behind લર 1,500 on his monthly rent for a two-bedroom apartment.

“When I saw my savings dwindle, I went to talk to leased people, with whom I have always had a good relationship,” he said. “I said I would try my best. They suggested I apply for rent relief.”

He expects to receive a relief amount from Prism, a local social services nonprofit. But it’s not at hand yet.

“It’s a game of waiting,” he said. “It will take some time if you are going to ask for help right now.”

With this expected support, he hopes to close the revenue gap until he can work again.

He said, ‘Now I can get a job.’ “I want to. I don’t like to sit around. But I can’t go to work without schools opening. If something doesn’t change for me in the next few months, what will I do? I pushed back whatever I could bill.” And this will help relieve the rent, but for how long? ”

He said any additional help from the government is welcome, but, “I can do it without a stimulus check to see if I have better unemployment, because you can prolong it.”

CDC fired despite defense

The worst has already happened to Jordan Mills and Jonathan Russell and their two-year-old daughter Valkiri.

Although they were protected from eviction, the court allowed the boycott.

“People like me are still being fired for non-payment,” he said.

She arranged the payment with her landlord, but later went up to about 50,450. The property owners filed for eviction citing a violation of part of the CDC’s declaration in which Mills agreed to “use best practices to make timely partial payments that are close to full payment.”

Mills went to the courthouse to attend her vacation hearing, but says she was unable to attend because she did not have the money to pay for parking.

“I can’t afford parking, it’s all $ 20,” he said. “I’m literally living. I got paid yesterday. I have $ 4 in my name.”

In May, Mills, an assistant manager at a pay-day loan company, was seen cutting his hours. She realized her family was not able to pay the rent with their high utility bills during the Texas summer.

She applied for rental assistance money and a unit amount of $ 3,500 for three months rent.

When Mills contracted the coronavirus, she said, her childcare provider left her as a precaution, and her husband quit his job as a security guard to take care of Valkyrie full-time, further reducing her income.

After a court ordered his dismissal in November, they did not wait for the sheriff’s arrival. Milo has borrowed 1,400 from his mother and moved his family out of a three-bedroom, single-wide mobile home, renting 17 1,175 a month and renting a 470-square-foot one-bedroom apartment in San Antonio.

The family’s new apartment is in the building in which the “second chance” is rented, for outcasts or people with bad credit.

Mills was paid a lot for that second chance. In addition to a monthly rent of 50 750, a 9 299 deposit and a pet 300 pet deposit, she also had to pay a ફી 650 risk fee due to her history.

“The worst has happened,” he said. “But I’m still afraid of how it will affect me when I’m going to hire somewhere bigger, somewhere safer. We have a tussle. I don’t want to stop here.”

“If there was something for them, they wouldn’t be so quick to turn tenants.”