
Real Estate Mobbing
Tenant "clearing" after blockbusting has lost its luster
Tenant "clearing" after blockbusting has lost its luster
What is "mobbing"?
Workplace mobbing comes Home. Workplace mobbing has been increasingly recognized as a means of group bullying with the goal of expulsion. In Europe, however, "real estate mobbing" is acknowledged as a common problem, especially in Spain and France. Real estate mobbing, sometimes called "property mobbing" when it is referenced in the United States at all, is a brutal method of forced eviction in which a legal resident--tenant or owner--is harassed into leaving a property that interests in real estate and development want to acquire. Real estate mobbing used to be called "blockbusting" and it is a phenomenon that is most likely to occur in gentrifying neighborhoods under the sway of a pro-development neighborhood association as well as other interests in speculation. Mobbing in Seattle RenterHarassment.com would like to hear from those who are experiencing this criminal method of forced eviction. At this point, however, we are aware of an ongoing case in Seattle of a renter in a neighborhood overrun with realtors, developers, and a corrupt neighborhood association that may even have retained professional harassers to "mob" her out of her house when her landlords declined to accept an offer to buy and further refused to assist in expelling their tenant. The goal seems to be twofold: To force a renter who knows too well her rights from the neighborhood and then to pressure her landlords to accept a low-ball offer from speculators who would raze the house and build more expensive housing for their own profit. |
Techniques of the "Mob"
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