Iedje Hornsby

Please give landlords a break!

Regarding the “no-fault eviction”: Wrong! It should be called “no-fault termination”!

I have been a landlord in Brattleboro since 1969. Because I am self-employed, no pension, I saw owning rental property as an opportunity to provide for my old age!

All my apartments have one-year leases, which allows a tenant not to renew after one year. Why should the owner not have the same opportunity?

If you have a good tenant, you hope to keep that person. However, sometimes it doesn’t work out, for various reasons, and the tenant will have two months to find a new rental.

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