Kansas City Rent Strike Hit With Late Fees

Predictions from our blog community prove correct regarding the consequences of playing politics with rent money. 

And so we ask . . .

IS KC TENANTS JUST MAKING LIFE WORSE FOR LOCAL LOW-INCOME RESIDENTS AND WILL THEY HELP COVER LATE FEES ALREADY ADDING UP?!?

Here's the documentation and a consequence that our readers had predicted last week . . . Check-it: 

Tenants at Quality Hill Towers and Independence Towers continue to face poor living conditions and recently, late fees, after announcing the Kansas City metro’s largest rent strike on record earlier this week.

KC Tenants union members of Independence Towers and Quality Hill Towers said they’re withholding over $60,000 in combined rent payments for the month of October. They said they have issued clear demands for rent caps, new ownership, and collectively bargained leases.

63% of Quality Hill tenants and 65% of Independence Towers tenants are a part of the group of 89 striking tenants as of Friday, KC Tenants said.

Sentinel Real Estate Corporation, the Quality Hill Towers landlord, distributed a “friendly fall reminder” to pay rent and called the strike “misguided and short-sighted.”

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Some KC tenants hit with late fees after historic rent strike with Independence tenants