[lax4ever]

While I imagine there will be outliers, and those outliers will likely be the featured media stories because bad news sells better, I would imagine the majority of those who are behind on their rent have worked with their landlords to come to some sort of agreement. The vast majority of landlords know that without renters you aren't paying for that property you purchased as an investment, and they know that hard times have fallen on quite a few people. The bigger impact of this eviction moratorium has been the number of people who felt empowered to take on landlords and just stop paying even if they could since there was no legal avenue for them to do anything about it and then go about trashing the place. There are quite a few stories about that taking place. Again, these are likely the outliers but those are the what get the clicks. For every single mother of two who would be evicted there is an example of a renter who stopped paying and trashed the property of a landlord who was struggling just as much, if not more, to get by. There are always two sides to every coin, and a federal solution for something like this will likely only make matters worse overall.