HOW OUT OF STATE LANDLORDS
HARM TOLEDO

When you don’t live here, you don’t care about the people that live here. Those are the words I thought of when I represented a Black single mother in Toledo, Ohio, being evicted by a company based in California. The woman had been renting the home for three years with her mother and teenage daughter. The woman and her mother were both on social security disability. The mother passed away and the woman fell behind on rent by three weeks when an eviction was filed against her. I did what I could to object and try to get the case reset due to a procedural error. It bought her a couple of weeks but ultimately she was evicted. Three years living in the home this out of state vulture landlord evicts her after she falls behind on rent THREE WEEKS after her MOM DIES and she has a MINOR CHILD. Now this woman and her child are possibly homeless or having to use public services or worse having to resort to do things they would not otherwise do. Perhaps if this landlord had given her some time to figure things out or accept less rent for a few months to help her out. But he doesn’t care because he doesn’t have to live here and feel the effects of evicting another one of our residents.