I am now ten years plus removed from the south. I spent close to 20 of my 40 some odd years there between Virginia and South Carolina. I still have many friends in South Carolina my last port of call. I moved out of South Carolina around May of 2008 and haven’t really looked back despite my family there. Wow what a change one administration and 8 years makes on people. During this last farce of an election I had to one by one (and before the election too) drop some of my “friends” back in SC I kept in contact with due to outright racist shit they would have never tried to talk to me about back in the day. The other side of the coin is I have found people I used to run with that are unapologetic in their resistance to this bullshit we now find ourselves faced with. One of such people is having a really hard time with the way business is conducted sometimes in the South where republicans rule and you can find yourself on the short side of a stick because of an old boy system or just a general polite conflict of interests. Polite being you should be polite about my conflict of interest, this is the South after all and we should all be polite. Well my friend is out 1600 plus dollars because of a property manager that moved her friend into an ajecent unit. The “neighbor” is a heroin adict with a record. The person managing the property is her friend. My friend had a nightmare unfold over weeks with stolen property and lack of peace in her house. Eventually she and her husband had to move out due to the circumstances and it cost them a pretty penny. The property manager had their cars towed in the middle of the night under false pretenses. But this is the South and we handle everything politely right? The property management company would surely correct the problem, just give us time to review everything. Not so fast, we are gonna treat these poor people for who they are, poor. I mean how dare they be poor and expect rights under the law.
One of the owners of the company is now actively lying and rallying her friends to disparage long term tenents her employees friend and employee forced out. This is what they would have for all of us to deal with. I am so glad I live in a state that has strict as hell rental laws, even if our prices are out of control.