Sean Hannity: 400% rise in eviction orders since host bought Georgia apartment complex

[turbinetree]

Source: The Guardian

The number of eviction orders obtained against tenants in a Georgia apartment complex owned by Sean Hannity has sharply increased since the property was bought by the Fox News host.

County court records say that judgments approving the removal of 61 different residents of the Hampton Place apartments in Perry have been issued during the three years and 10 months since Hannity took over.

The previous owner of the 152-unit apartment complex obtained similar orders against 12 different tenants during the preceding three years and 10 months, according to the records, before selling it to Hannity for almost $8m.

Christopher Reeves, an attorney for the Fox News host, said in an email: “Mr Hannity is not involved in the management of these properties. Evictions only occur after a material breach of the lease terms.”



Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/27/sean-hannity-eviction-orders-georgia-apartment-complex

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Hey, Hannity did you learn this from the orange hair malignant narcissistic psychopathic sexual predator fuck head, that is a "motormouth" traitor, did you check out your fuckhead traitor on fix noise yesterday......................

But back to your slum lord tactics.....................worried................now that you are being exposed................





November 2018 cannot get here fast enough

[BeyondGeography]

1. IOW, hey, I am just the owner here

[poboy2]

2. "Call Sean Hannity! Would somebody call Sean Hannity?!" -Tbag -nt

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Evicting some of his own listeners

and/or viewers.

[mr_lebowski]

4. Prop Owners are 'by definition' involved in the 'management' of their props ...

If for no other reason, they choose the prop mgt. company and tell them terms they want enforced.

Wonder how much he jacked the rents?

Wonder if he changed the prop mgt company to one that was known to be a buncha dicks?

[riversedge]

10. YES, SO many questions.

[Roy Rolling]

5. More Government Welfare

So a private property owner like Hannity uses the government to remedy his poor business decisions? Why should the government pay to evict people he unwisely chose to rent an apartment? That's HIS loss, but Mr. "keep government out of my business" Hannity depends on the government to clean up his mess.

[Eliot Rosewater]

6. Filthy fucking punk

[matt819]

7. Of course

This begs any number of questions.

What was the condition of the place before Hannity bought it.

What is the condition of the place now?

Is there a motive to toss tenants, e.g., upgrade to condo, plan to demolish for new investment, plan to sell for development.

Race/ethnicity of tenants tossed, tenants not tossed.

Politics of management company, and its management of other Hannity properties. Past legal actions against that company.

Hannity's ownership stake in that management company.

Compare evictions and ownership history of his other properties.

And so much more.

Can you say can of worms?

[cannabis_flower]

8. Also

What exactly constitutes a material breach of the lease terms?

[Achilleaze]

9. He's a compleat KGOP republican lowlife a-hole

milking the American people for profit...what a toxic wanker.

[Sedona]

11. A property management firm and realtor both advertise with Hannity here in Atlanta

https://markspain.com/2014/09/23/meet-mark-spain-sean-hannity/



(OMG wearing a trump length tie and poorly fitted suit)

A Meet up Between Mark Spain and Sean Hannity
By Mark Spain

Recently, Mark Spain and Sean Hannity exchanged a few words about Atlanta, the real estate market and a few other topics. Mark is part of the Keller Williams Realty Group and the leader of The Mark Spain Team in Atlanta. Sean is the host of the Sean Hannity Show, which is a nationally syndicated talk radio show.

About Mark Spain
Mark Spain is an Atlanta-based Realtor and has one of the top teams in the United States for the Keller Williams Realty Company. His team ranked #2 in sales in the United States for 2012.

As an Atlanta native, Mark earned his degree from the University of Georgia with a major in business. Today, he specializes in helping area home buyers and sellers. The Mark Spain Team has also been endorsed by Glen Beck.

https://www.facebook.com/markspainrealestate/


http://renterswarehouse.com/awards-endorsements/atlanta/

https://www.facebook.com/renterswarehouse/

[pwb]

12. Pay the so called news talkers big money and they lean republican.

The one percent have it all figured out. Their money can buy opinion but not our common sense. We are on to them.

[Callmecrazy]

13. Leave Sean Hannity alone...

Evicting someone for breaking a lease is a standard business practice.
It doesn't make him a slum lord.
So he owns a lot of properties; big deal. He's a successful businessman who has invested his money wisely and protects his assets.
I don't see the big deal.
Why does everyone on this board hate successful people? It's the American Dream, right? Everybody around here gets mad when someone makes a little money and doesn't have to live paycheck to paycheck.

[turbinetree]

14. Europe: Landlord and Tenant Laws - Our Rating when compared to the United States

https://www.globalpropertyguide.com/Europe/landlord-tenant-law

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/feb/12/americas-eviction-epidemic-matthew-desmond-housing-crisis

https://qz.com/167887/germany-has-one-of-the-worlds-lowest-homeownership-rates/

[dembotoz]

15. Being a landlord seems to be the gop hobby of choice

Local pols doing it.
Big funder of gop notorious slumlord

[mahatmakanejeeves]

16. At Sean Hannity properties in low-income areas, an aggressive approach to rent collection

Retweeted by David Fahrenthold: https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold

That is an INSANE rate of filings for eviction at the largest apartment complexes Sean Hannity owns. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/at-hannitys-properties-in-low-income-areas-an-aggressive-approach-to-rent-collection/2018/05/10/964be4a2-4eea-11e8-84a0-458a1aa9ac0a_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.233a25ab0cef …

Link to tweet

Investigations

At Sean Hannity properties in low-income areas, an aggressive approach to rent collection

By Aaron C. Davis and Shawn Boburg May 10 at 3:21 PM

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PERRY, Ga. — For years, Fox News host Sean Hannity has poured his fortune into a surprising side venture: a vast portfolio of rental properties in working-class neighborhoods. He described those holdings in compassionate terms when they came to light last month, saying he invests in places that “otherwise might struggle to receive such support.”

But a Washington Post analysis shows that managers at Hannity’s four largest apartment complexes in Georgia have taken an unusually aggressive approach to rent collection. They have sought court-ordered evictions at twice the statewide rate — in a state known for high numbers of evictions and landlord-friendly laws — and frequently have done so less than two weeks after a missed payment. ... Property managers at the complexes sought to evict tenants more than 230 times in 2017, court records show. At one, a 112-unit subdivision in a suburb west of Atlanta, 94 eviction actions were filed last year, records show.

Among the tenants Hannity’s property managers sought to evict, records show, were a former corrections officer and her wife, who fell behind while awaiting a disability determination; a double amputee who had lived in an apartment with her daughter for five years but did not pay on time after being hospitalized; and a single mother of three whose $980 rent check was rejected because she could not come up with a $1,050 cleaning fee for a bedbug infestation.

Some of the court files include notes showing that sheriff’s deputies removed residents. More often, though, tenants who were taken to court avoided eviction by paying their past-due rent along with hundreds of dollars in late fees and other costs, records show. The Post found that property managers repeatedly filed eviction actions against many of those residents. ... Told of The Post’s findings, three experts said the pattern suggests that the threat of eviction is being used not just to remove tenants but also to generate revenue.
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Alice Crites contributed to this report.

Aaron Davis is an investigative reporter who joined The Post as a staff writer in 2008. He has covered local, state and federal government, as well as the aviation industry and law enforcement, among other topics. He was a member of the Post team that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 2013 Navy Yard shooting. Follow @byaaroncdavis

Shawn Boburg is a reporter for The Washington Post's investigative unit. He was previously an accountability reporter for the Metro section. He joined The Post in 2015. Follow @ShawnBoburg

[WhoWoodaKnew]

17. Here's why this may not gain traction...

If the people were evicted for things like not paying rent/not following rules/etc, and if those rules were written down and the renters signed the agreement previously, then no one will emphasize with them.

I'm gonna wait and see what the real reasons were before making a call.