He's reached looney left nirvana, victimhood. It's the most important thing in our culture now.

Still has a minimum wage job (along with his spouse). He has done little to improve his standard of living; i.e. get an education, learn to speak English, get a better job.

They have improved the neighborhood thus rent increases. If he wants to live in the improved neighborhood, pay the price.

I started off in the jail working nights. I attended the academy in the days. 6 months later, I was certified. Then I got my AAS. Paid for by the GI Bill and both of us working overtime. Same with my Bachelor's. Then we both worked OT to help pay the the Mrs. Master's Degree.

We ate a lot of tuna casseroles, cheap hot dogs, etc. Vacations were normally a tent in the woods.

All the time, we had children and put money away for retirement.

Quit feeling sorry for yourself and start improving yourself.

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Originally posted by Jim Shugart:
So, Jose has been living there for 23 years and he still can't speak English?

My thoughs exactly!
Perhaps senior Lopez doesn't give a crap about being part of this country. Perhaps he should go home and be treated MUCH more fairly
Adios Lopez family.

I have no sympathy. I worked in a GD prison in San Francisco at 13,500 a year when I started out, paid rent with overtime and GI bill while I studied. I transferred to, uh, lesser desirable locations (that I will not name) until we reached a comfortable income level. Prior to that I was stationed in several locations with the Army, including 2 overseas locations. Screw this guy.

Wow, I wonder if poor Jose is getting same level of backslapping support that's evident in this thread locally.
I might have some sympathy for him if he'd made any effort to assimilate and improve his situation.

The US has the richest "poor" people in the world.

I get all that, and I'm in total agreement with the building owner.

But as I get older I'm finding that I have a soft-spot for stories which affect kids in a negative way.

They didn't ask for their situation and now have just one more obstacle ahead of them.

Until I had kids of my own, I never used to think like that.

I suspect that the Somalis have taken a big hunk of the available public housing.

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Originally posted by Ronin1069:
...I'm finding that I have a soft-spot for stories which affect kids in a negative way.

They didn't ask for their situation and now have just one more obstacle ahead of them...

So, just add Child Abuse to their being lazy, stupid and rude. Jose and his wife did this to their children, not you. I agree it's sad for them, but they're not our problem.

I'd be willing to bet that the kids managed to learn English, though, and perhaps even some American values. That usually the way with immigrants. To their credit, children seem more capable of understanding their situations than the parents who abused them. By all appearances, the family is here legally, so they won't be deported to whatever shithole they originated in. The kids will survive.

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Originally posted by Ronin1069:
I get all that, and I'm in total agreement with the building owner.

But as I get older I'm finding that I have a soft-spot for stories which affect kids in a negative way.

They didn't ask for their situation and now have just one more obstacle ahead of them.

Until I had kids of my own, I never used to think like that.

I understand. Maybe a workable solution, if the parents are truly interested in improving their lot in life and that of their children, would be to find a mentor who could help them grow to become independent and self reliant. Everyone in society would be better off.

Maybe semi-related, seems to me liberals don't want to foster self reliance, it's having "dependents" that keeps liberals in power.

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Originally posted by Ronin1069:
The capitalist in me gets this, the human in me believes there has to be another way....

Even if he and his family weren't green card Mexicans without the ability to speak English, they would have to think in the back of their minds that their "home" was never going to be permanent. People should NEVER 100% rely on living in a rental unit for the long term, because surprise-surprise, it ain't a right. Unless one lives in a rent controlled liberal city. Pisses me off because of people like the Lopez family, thinking they have the right to live in their rental unit (which is owned by someone else) forever, and without increases in their rent rate to boot.

Tenants like these have the attitude that they share in ownership just because they helped the evil landlord make millions off the poor people .

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Originally posted by Jim Shugart:
So, Jose has been living there for 23 years and he still can't speak English?

Very first thought that entered my mind.

Sounds like they need to bring in some more of those "noble refugees", lots and lots more.

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Originally posted by oddball:Tenants like these have the attitude that they share in ownership just because they helped the evil landlord make millions off the poor people .

There was an article a few weeks ago discussing the evil landowners selling off trailer parks to developers and destroying their "neighborhood".

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Originally posted by Ronin1069:
I get all that, and I'm in total agreement with the building owner.

But as I get older I'm finding that I have a soft-spot for stories which affect kids in a negative way.

They didn't ask for their situation and now have just one more obstacle ahead of them.

Until I had kids of my own, I never used to think like that.

Oh, for the chirrins?

Watch living near all the leftist loons, it might be rubbing off.

The didn't ask for the situation, by renting for 23 years and working minimum wage jobs?

Ah, ok.

I wonder if he votes?

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“It’s really so mean and unjust,” Lopez said in Spanish, speaking through an interpreter. “How can someone come in and buy the building and we have to leave in 30 days?”

Let me correct this.

"It's really so mean and unjust, that someone who just has a lease and doesn't want to follow the terms thinks he can hassle the legal owner and avoid legal eviction by trying to play the race card and going for publicity."

Nice try, Jose.

The rent increase is about $300 dollars. $1095 to $1400.

There was theater yesterday:

"Lopez handed a check to Steve Lubke, a property manager, for his August rent. Lubke refused it. He also rejected checks from renters in other buildings the new owner has. They’d been hit with rent increases but still wanted to pay their previous, lower rents."
http://www.startribune.com/a-f...eapolis/438321663/#1

While there are 38 units, most renters have left and only about 15 remain.

The issue appears to be linked to:
" Property tax records show that Jason Quilling, a landlord who had been under fire for rent increases and the conditions in some of his Minneapolis apartment buildings, sold his properties — including the Pleasant Avenue address — earlier this year to Villa Nova Real Estate Holdings, which is based in Redondo Beach, Calif."

My thought is that a major remodel is planned. However, the Lopez apartment is being advertised to rent.

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:

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Originally posted by Jim Shugart:
So, Jose has been living there for 23 years and he still can't speak English?

Very first thought that entered my mind.

Mine too.

You lose Jose, you're not doing your children any favors being a "victim".

Could he be called.......Jose from the block? Nah, never mind.

Given the non-career jobs they have, it would seem that they could move elsewhere fairly easily to a lower rent area. All they need is a couple of restaurant jobs.