A report from the Star Tribune in Minnesota. "On a good month, the upper floor of Michael and Krista Browne’s Minneapolis duplex near the University of Minnesota could pull in $2,750 to $3,000 as an Airbnb rental. For the Brownes and many other vacation rental owners in the Twin Cities, there haven’t been many good months this year. 'We were spending money to manage month to month, but not seeing income,' said Krista Browne."

"She turned the Airbnb into a long-term rental that now fetches only $1,800 a month, upending the couple’s plans to convert the 1,000 square-foot unit they occupied into a short-term rental that would help fund the purchase of a house — they have a toddler and she’s pregnant with twins. 'Our whole business shifted,' she said. 'We had to get out.'"

"The situation is especially tenuous for people who went all-in on the short-term rental concept by taking out big mortgages to buy sprawling rental properties."

From NPR on Illinois. "Scott Simon talks to Katrina Bilella, who owns a rental home in Chicago, about how eviction moratoriums are putting landlords like her into financial hardship. May we ask why you're staying with family and friends right now?"

"Bilella: I am staying with family and friends because, ironically, my tenants have displaced me. They signed a lease October of 2019. And since then, it has been an absolute nightmare. Then March rolls around. They owe me $630 from March. And since then, I have not seen a single penny in rent. The lease ended in April. They've been squatting in my apartment since then. And I could not afford to pay my rent in Denver and my mortgage in Chicago, so I moved out of Denver and I am now living with family and friends."

"Bilella: If I am able to get them out, I will probably just try to sell this unit. I just accepted that I probably won't be getting any of that money back, to be honest. The sooner I can get my tenants out, the sooner I can sell my property and stop losing on it every single month."

The Review Journal in Nevada. "Attorney Caleb Green said the extension is great for struggling renters but deepens the financial burden placed on landlords. 'Any moratoriums on evictions puts pressure on landlords because they’re stuck,' Green said."

"Las Vegas attorney Terry Moore said that though renters will owe missed payments, it’s possible landlords may not see the owed money. 'Realistically, if a tenant hasn’t paid rent in six months and they owe $6,000, the landlord is never going to see the money,' he said."

From Spectrum News on Florida. "Ellen Sousa, an Orlando-Kissimmee area property manager and realtor, said close to 30 percent of her tenants aren’t paying their rent. 'It's a two-way street.' Landlords need to live, too, she said. 'Who’s going to pay for property taxes? How are we going to pay for property taxes?' she asked. 'And what happens at the end, when people leave and this big bill is there?'"

"'COVID-19 has destroyed a lot of dreams,' Sousa acknowledged. 'All the plans that we had for 2020 went down the drain in February for most people.”

The Orange County Register in California. "While many California tenants struggle to make monthly payments, the economic distress has forced landlords to double their incentives for new customers, according to one study. Apartment seekers will be happy to know that 30.4% of the rental listings on Zillow advertised some form of concession in July vs. 16.2% in February, before the coronavirus became an economic wrecking ball. Zillow said these incentives range from free months rent or parking to gift cards to no deposit."

"Among the six California markets tracked among 50 major U.S. metropolitan areas, on average 32% of the listings showed some discounting in July vs. 15% five months earlier. San Francisco: 41% of rental units tracked had discounts, 10th highest nationally among the 50 metros. That’s up from 16.4% unit with concessions in February. San Jose: 40% with discounts, No. 11 nationally and up from 21% in February."

"San Diego: 30% with discounts, No. 28 nationally and up from 17% in February. Los Angeles and Orange counties: 36% with discounts, No. 20 nationally and up from 19% in February. Sacramento: 23% with discounts, No. 40 nationally and up from 9% in February. Inland Empire: 21% with discounts, No. 43 nationally and up from 10% in February. California landlords are also lowering the monthly rents they’re charging."

From City News Service in California. "Providing rental housing is a business. The state legislature has been working on a combination of regulations that, if not changed, could be disastrous and result in many individual property owners in California losing their properties. They have their own personal expenses and need their real estate investment to be self-sufficient. Without rent that can support the property’s expenses, they can’t afford to hold on to their property for very long."

From The Cut on New York. "After a while, the police arrived. When Martinez identified herself as a tenant, the cops said they were responding to a call from Gendville and Brooks-Church, who had also apparently dialed 911. They told Martinez that the landlords said they had nowhere else to go. Since it was their house, police said, they couldn’t make the owners leave. They told Martinez to think of the family as her new roommates. At the same time, Gendville and Brooks-Church could not legally remove the tenants on their own: Not only was a moratorium on evictions in place during the pandemic, but the law requires evictions to be carried out by a sheriff armed with a court order."

"As word of the occupation spread, it became apparent that the landlords were not just New Yorkers of considerable means. They were an ethically sourced, non-GMO, unmarried poster couple for a certain Brooklyn-specific subset of their tax bracket. For those in their orbit, their public cruelty at 1214 Dean Street was not an isolated moment of madness but the inevitable culmination of years of greed and exploitation, exacerbated by the pandemic, in which even those who staked a claim in the Brooklyn boom are finding themselves unable to survive the bust. Though they own two businesses and six properties in one of the country’s most expensive real-estate markets, the landlords were apparently homeless."

"Tenants say the gas was routinely shut off when the landlords failed to pay the bill (Gendville is currently a defendant in four civil suits filed by Brooklyn Union Gas and Con Edison). The heating was often faulty. The floor in one of the bathrooms was caving in. Rats would suddenly appear at parties. When tenants demanded Brooks-Church take care of the rat situation, he warned them that their 'walls will be full of rat skeletons. Their souls will haunt you.'"