Comments on: Inherit a rent boy

By: Zemploid

Zemploid — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:38:53 +0000

Lease is a contract, and contracts are not susceptible to being “inherited” in the same way as you might inherit a plot of land or an antique bookcase.
The terms “inherit a lease” and “inherit the title to a lease” are both legal impossibilities. It’s probably more accurate to talk of “extending” the rights and obligations of a contract of lease to new tenants.

(Sorry to be a pedant!)

By: Corinne Vella

Corinne Vella — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:24:16 +0000

Xaghra: What medication are you on and is it legitimate?

By: Xaghra

Xaghra — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:47:40 +0000

Here elfie elfie elfie, come here boy, come here…..thats it my sweety……now let’s play a game……

Read the above article, form a personal opinion …. and…..express it…..

What? You don’t have an opinion? Ohhhhhhhhh you have to be told what your opinion is and I guess being the weekend everyone is at the beach relaxing and enjoying themsELFS….

So tell me….what would you like to become when you grow up? Aha aha – ohhhhh right a Board member under a Gvern Laburista!

OK! Guess you don’t need personal opinions for that job?

By: Corinne Vella

Corinne Vella — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:55:06 +0000

It’s interesting that the exemption of some properties is being justified on the grounds of social justice. What measure of social justice is applied to property owners who are in debt because their property will not be released or the rent raised to an acceptable level? Or whose children need to join the ranks of the alleged ‘msalbin’ because someone else’s children will retain the right to rent their property at a pittance?

By: Mario Debono

Mario Debono — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:37:17 +0000

@xaghra. We have brains and a heart, enough to lambast our own Govt publicly when it makes a blooper. Thats not allowed in the Pointy Ears Kazin. You see, they love this white paper because it protects their political “home”.

By: Mario Debono

Mario Debono — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:35:29 +0000

@chris. I would have expected the white paper to give a fighting chance to anyone who has been suffering the burden of properties rented out for a pittance for many years, especially those under requisition. My family were especially targeted during the mintoff years. ALL, but i mean ALL, our properties were requisitioned and rented out in the space of two years for a pittance. During the war, my grandfather took pity on some families he found squatting in one particular house he had and let them stay because their houses had been bombed. In 1946 these familes, some of whom by the way are today very well off, were recognized because of requisition. They didnt move out. some of them are still there, in spite of having built palatial residences and summer houses . They prefer to live in a crumbling old Qormi ex- pasta factory in 4 rooms instead of their modern properties. Why? I know why. I have ingherited the property, and paid at least Lm 20,000 in succession taxes alone on it. They keep pestering me to tear it down and build flats, so that they can claim one as “payment” for moving out temporarily. They come there during the day, but sleep elsewhere. Their whole purpose in life is to extract money from the landlord. Recently they have taken me to court because i dont want to carry out repairs to the balcony and roof . I wont. A thousand courts will not make me do it. Their rent ? I now command a total of Lm 14 a year from each. Thats Lm 84. The roof costs Lm 22,000 to do up.Its a very old property. I will never get this property back, not with what this white mishmash is proposing . Its a beautiful old palazzo that merits restoration but I wont bother. Hell will freeze over before i lift a finger about conserving it . So no, its not comments we need. we needed to start of by redressing the injustices first, then discussing a way forward. The time frames on this white paper are just ludicrous. As for clubs, they should NOT be exempt. Why? IS the MUSEUM or the Banda Or the PN/MLP club special? Why should they be exclusive? And anything can be a social club you know? even a ladies knitting cicle. I wonder how many people will be inventive in describing their property as a social club. Come on, MLP, if you are the new beginning you claim to be, give us a list of properties you currently rent out for a pittance. Its surely longer than the PN one. And most MLP kazini are reqisitioned properties. Bless MIntoff and his little cotton socks for that one.

By: Amanda Mallia

Amanda Mallia — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:46:31 +0000

Fred – I think that Abel Abela’s comment has answered your question. My guess is that yes, MUSEUM would probably be exempted, as would scouts HQs and the like.

So much for reform!

And wht’s this about raising minimum annual rent to 185 euros (Lm79.40)? Most of the people who pay such measly rent are probably the ones at the lower end of the income scale – usually the same ones who smoke away more than that much in a couple of months, and who also fritter away way beyond that amount on lotto and Super 5!

Yes – so much for reform!

By: Chris II

Chris II — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:42:33 +0000

Mario – this is a white paper – it is your opportunity to send in comments and make suggestions. To say they the truth I have no technical knowledge on the subject but if you have and can convince a number of people, then you can even lobby to increase the number of comments received by government.

By: Steve Grech

Steve Grech — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:38:26 +0000

Socrates once said that treating equals as unequals is injustice but the biggest injustice is treating unequals as equals.

[Moderator – That’s the kind of thinking that justified the subjugation of your own people by every colonial government from the Knights Hospitaller to the British Empire. Thankfully, we’ve moved on since then.]

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:59:41 +0000

Yes, Xaghra, I noticed that.