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Biden Eviction Moratorium Crushes Small Landlords: I’m Out $24K While Tenants Buy Boats

Amanda Prestigiacomo
Biden Eviction Moratorium Crushes Small Landlords: I’m Out $24K While Tenants Buy Boats
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A landlord from North Carolina is speaking out against the Biden administration’s extension of an eviction moratorium as he faces a $24,000 hole from unpaid rent while his tenants, the landlord said, are “buying boats.”

Buddy Shoup told Fox & Friends this week that he’s owed $24,000 in unpaid rent due to policy prescriptions supposedly tied to the coronavirus pandemic. As he hemorrhages costs, Shoup outlined, his tenants bypassing rent have purchased three boats.

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