Fox News host Sean Hannity has used his fortune to invest in a vast portfolio of rental properties in working-class neighborhoods for years now. When this portfolio came to light last month, Hannity said he invests in places that “otherwise might struggle to receive such support.” But The Washington Post has found that managers at Hannity’s four largest apartment complexes in Georgia take an unusually aggressive approach to rent collection. The paper also found that those managers have sought court-ordered evictions at twice the statewide rate — in a state known for high numbers of evictions and landlord-friendly laws. They have also sought these evictions frequently less than two weeks after a missed payment.
In 2017, property managers at the complexes sought to evict tenants more than 230 times, court records show. The Washington Post found that at one, 112-unit subdivision in a suburb west of Atlanta, 94 eviction actions were filed last year.
The Post writes that among the tenants Hannity’s property managers sought to evict were “a former corrections officer and her wife, who fell behind while awaiting a disability determination; a double amputee who had lived in an apartment with her daughter for five years but did not pay on time after being hospitalized; and a single mother of three whose $980 rent check was rejected because she could not come up with a $1,050 cleaning fee for a bedbug infestation.”
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