Maybe someone will create a startup where you can hire another crew of gig workers to fight the landlord's crew and then create some sort of social media platform to stream the fights and make money from it by making the viewers pay to keep the stream online...
I understand evictions trigger lots of emotions and can be terrible situations for the tenant. But so many comments here seem to treat an apartment as something the tenant is entitled to, even without payment.<p>How is living at a property without paying for it any different than walking out of Walmart without paying for bread?<p>Staying at a place without paying rent is a form of direct theft. The non-paying-tenant is stealing use of the property without payment. It's somewhat normalized, but that doesn't make it ok or something anyone needs to tolerate.
And people say that startups often operate not in line with market trends.<p>In Europe such debt collectors are notorious for very direct intimidation. But people at least still call them gangs instead of startups.
This is kinda sick: hire someone desperate to have a job and that job is to evict someone from where they live. How many ways could this possibly go wrong?<p>(And has Fix television optioned this for reality TV yet?)
Here in Florid an eviction is a legal process fought in the courts, once the tenant is 'convicted' the landlord can use the police to evict.<p>I don't understand how this could be better than the police other than the timing? This is going to end terribly, just some John Doe showing up to peoples homes?
1: Stupid cod-Latin name? Check!<p>2: Takes advantage of desperate people with "gig economy" jobs? Check!<p>3: Describes itself as "The Uber or Air B'n'B of <something>"? Check!<p>I hated them already. Even before I found out what they did!
Who in their right mind would work this type of job? I suppose if you were going to get kicked out of your apartment, you might do this. Evicting people can be very dangerous, not to mention depressing.
Oh geez, I can only laugh at the absurdity and audacity. The psychopaths who started this sure have a great idea on what to do in this world of cut-throat capitalism.<p>I wonder when someone will start a retail mercenary business...<p>Edit to add: To quote what someone on HN said: the whole gig economy platform is basically like having day labourers hanging out outside your local DIY store until a pick-up truck shows up and tells a few of them to hop in, but this time, it's all happening online!
Another gig is working for Trump making deep learning adversarial networks to optimize riling up his voting base and passifying normal thinking voters.
The fact that this type of firm even exists - if they in fact are behaving as reported (not just cleaning out vacated places, but in fact acting as enforcers) - is why i dislike American style capitalism. I'm not saying this firm can't exist elsewhere in the world, mind you. It just feels like awful things are allowed to happen here with justification being something along the lines of "hey, the market presented an opportunity, and someone filled it, yay America!" <sigh><p>To clarify: I am a proud American, but am frustrated with how distorted life has become to allow business to supersede seemingly almost everything.
An eviction moratorium that does not include help for the landlords is one of the dumbest ideas of 2020. What do people expect to happen? This is going to be an absolute bloodbath.<p>Edit: I'd really like to hear what people think will happen when landlords don't have income for 9+ months. Or what they expect to happen when the moratorium ends and people have 9 months back rent. Just what, exactly, do people expect the outcome here to be?