{"id":796,"date":"2007-05-17T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=796"},"modified":"2007-05-17T22:00:09","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T05:00:09","slug":"tired-stereotypes-about-renters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/17\/tired-stereotypes-about-renters\/","title":{"rendered":"Tired Stereotypes About Renters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve heard these stereotypes about renting, circulated by people and organizations with a financial interest in selling you a mortgage:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Renting is for poor people.<br \/>\nand,<\/li>\n<li>Renters don&#8217;t get involved in their community.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a specific example of these arguments, courtesy of the NAR:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Low- and moderate-income families, as well as minorities, are the groups that homeownership eludes the most.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nHomeowners are motivated to stay abreast of local issues to protect their investment.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nIn turn, involvement in community quality-of-life issues helps prevent crime, improve childhood education and support neighborhood upkeep.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; NAR, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realtor.org\/PublicAffairsWeb.nsf\/pages\/TPHomeownership\" title=\"Homeownership Talking Points\">Homeownership Talking Points<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I mention these because <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2003710448_queenanneduo17m.html\" title=\"Queen Anne couple outguns city in demolition dust-up\">a semi-related story in today&#8217;s Seattle Times<\/a> caught my attention.  In the first three paragraphs it gives a strong counterpoint to these talking points we often hear repeated by those in the home sales business.  <em>(emphasis mine)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the 40th floor of a Seattle skyscraper, in a nondescript hearing room, a young Queen Anne couple sat on one side of a long table. On the other side sat their opponents \u2014 lawyers defending a city permit to tear down an old church next door to the couple&#8217;s <strong>rented house<\/strong>.On this particular day, the Queen Anne couple, Tyler Crone and Jorge Bar\u00f3n, looked far less like the working parents of a 3-year-old daughter and 15-month-old son and more like who they also happen to be: <strong>Yale-educated attorneys, one with a master&#8217;s in public health<\/strong>, both on a mission. There the couple sat, confident, attired in suits, with briefcases of exhibits \u2014 and armed with witnesses who pounded home a single, emotional message: Don&#8217;t poison our children with a toxic cloud of lead dust.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Merkle, a real-estate broker involved in the deal to develop the church property, watched the spectacle with frustration, <strong>having never before seen such formidable neighborhood resistance to a demolition<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Surely there was a typo.  That doesn&#8217;t sound like <em>renters<\/em> at all.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe it&#8217;s time to rethink the view that renters are somehow inherently unfortunate, lazy, ignorant, and\/or stupid.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>Sanjay Bhatt, <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2003710448_queenanneduo17m.html\" title=\"Queen Anne couple outguns city in demolition dust-up\">Seattle Times<\/a>, 05.17.2007<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve heard these stereotypes about renting, circulated by people and organizations with a financial interest in selling you a mortgage: Renting is for poor people. and, Renters don&#8217;t get involved in their community. 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