The bleeding hearts on here jumped on me when I said things like this are one of the reasons the poor stay poor lol. There's no discipline to manage their money. It's like the scene in Longmire when the Reservation got their first casino checks rolling in and OD's jumped up. I bet those 19 year olds have a new big screen and a PS5. They'll just end up borrowing the money from parents or other relatives that they'll never pay back.Here's the short version of what I have seen with all the free money:
-Two 19ish tenants living in a house. Both laid off and both collected the extra $600/week. Utility company contacted me to see if they were still there as they owed over $1500.
-One tenant who moved her ex in so she could get his disability checks not making rents. Blamed the pandemic. Still gets the extra income, nothing changed for her.
-Married couple both on partial disability. No pay disruptions. She talks to me one day saying she wished there would be another stimulus check because she wanted to buy something special for her grand child.
-One tenant kept taking days off work because she could say her son was exposed to the virus at school. She was not sending him to school. Company didn't fire her but didn't pay her either. Complains to me that she has no money.
But to even it out I have one long term tenant who contacted me asking if I had any other tenants that were hurt by all this. He was donating his stimulus checks and wanted to keep it local. I couldn't accept anything for any of my tenants as none were actually hurt financially by all this.