Quote (Saucisson6000 @ Jun 19 2022 11:34am)
Should minor offenses being publicly available ? ... More like not.
Unofficial black lists are doing the job, but it's illegal and potentially unfair.
In France it has been discussed, it's still not applied. So it's illegal black lists, more or less local ones in-beteen agencies/networks.
A person can have personal issues foryears, not paying well at some moment, then later fix its own problem but still being heavily penalized or even worse: not getting good job or loan because the company will check these lists, even the very old ones.
It's like nearly public social credit, gross, this is not going into the right direction.
Here's the solution(s) you are looking for:
1/ A "final verification" (and not a list) using a national database website and with an unitary cost like 10-50€ could be possible... But only containing the very worst cases (those who are clearly abusing the system and have done it several times, recently)
Of course the name of the Landlord, Agency, and various other informations have to be added for each verification.
or better:
2/ Same than 1 but the "list" is only available to the police: if a complain with a proof of non-payment is delivered the police will proceed faster and with extended rights/action if it's a well know serial bad tenant/scammer.
I've been too nice to my tenants in the past and the result is being out several thousand dollars in unpaind rent.
People's personal issues are not my problem. If you put it to a vote i could get behind helping via tax dollars going towards public services and affordable housing but I'm not in the business of giving away free housing from my own investments.
With how long it takes to evict in toronto (6 months to a year before the pandemic which made things worse) I'd be in favour of any system that aggressively weeds out tentants who may run into issues that cause them to stop paying rent.