{"id":58728,"date":"2020-03-19T05:11:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T05:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=58728"},"modified":"2020-03-19T05:11:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T05:11:35","slug":"due-to-the-coronavirus-crisis-this-landlord-decided-to-not-collect-rent-from-tenants-who-are-unable-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2020\/03\/19\/due-to-the-coronavirus-crisis-this-landlord-decided-to-not-collect-rent-from-tenants-who-are-unable-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Due to the Coronavirus crisis, this landlord decided to not collect rent from tenants who are unable to work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is yet another story of how we, as humans, have each other&#8217;s back in times of crisis. Nathan Nichols from South Portland is a landlord who decided to forego rent from his tenants for the month of April due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote on Facebook that the tenants living in the two units he owns are service and hourly workers, who may be out of work in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because I have the good fortune and of being able to afford it and the privilege of being in the owner class, I just let them know I would not be collecting rent in April,&#8221; Nichols wrote. &#8220;I ask any other landlords out there to take a serious look at your own situation and consider giving your tenants some rent relief as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His post has more than 22,000 shares and hundreds of comments praising the good Samaritan&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n<p>In an update posted on Facebook, he revealed that it had inspired at least one other landlord to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/3698\/Maine-Landlord-Is-Not-Collecting-Rent-To-Help-Tenants-Unable-To-Work-During-COVID-19-Outbreak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.sunnyskyz.com\/good-news\/3698\/Maine-Landlord-Is-Not-Collecting-Rent-To-Help-Tenants-Unable-To-Work-During-COVID-19-Outbreak<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is yet another story of how we, as humans, have each other&#8217;s back in times of crisis. Nathan Nichols from South Portland is a landlord who decided to forego rent from his tenants for the month of April due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. He wrote on Facebook that the tenants living in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}