المستأجرون يستنكرون "مجزرة" قانون الإيجارات والمالكون يدعون سليمان لتجنب "إعدامهم" بالتوقيع عليه

Demonstrators: "We occupied by force the appartments of other people for decades. We want to occupy them again for decades. If anybody works his ass off to buy an appartment to rent out, We are ready to rent it free of charge . Else we block roads."

What kind of a farce is this? What right are we talking about? the right to take that which is not yours? These lowlives should be gassed!

Come on, these people are ridiculous, in fact, most of these tenants are richer than the owners of their houses. They pay such ridiculous rent (below 100,000LL per year) that the tenants don't even bother collecting them.

And tenants complain that the houses they live in are not maintained properly by their owners and often in despicable conditions.

Owners are even unable to sell their properties with such tenants.

It's time to bring rent prices back to a normal level which could actually play a role in decreasing the average rental fees across the entire market.

Exactly!! It is not up to the landlords to subsidize cheap housing!! Maybe owners of aparts. earning peanuts for their property should demonstrate and shut down roads too..or even better, evict the tenants once and for all!

Does anyone remember the fact that a building collapsed on its occupants because of low maintenance. You don't want to accept a higher rent well then.... accept BETONNN on your head.

you are pathetic! you really think that every tenants are financially ok and there wont be thousands of thousand of people without shelter and they can "manage" themselves with 500$ a month to rent a house as if their salary is 3000$

the bill of electricity or mobile phone per month is greater than 1 year rent is it conceivable

also by liberating 10s of thousands of appartments, rents overall in the country will decrease. Also there will be more confidence in the judiciary.

The tenants have to account for new costs they were not expecting. Shame on them. We need a progressive law that will bring back the rights of the owners. Some of them owners are getting paid rental fees that are prehistoric.Our Society needs better citizens and it all starts with a better education and a deep understanding of what we intend to leave behind us when we are gone. Lebanese; They only think in terms of "me me me me me me now now now now now now now now" Surely they are biting their fingers with this new law and creating chaos with their stage ins. Go back home and be grateful for all those years you had a roof to sleep under without having to pay a fair rent. PAY UP.

To bigjohn, from your repetitive phrases you seem to be confused or ignorant
of the meaning of the word 'RENT". When someone rents a chalet, car, apartment
or anything.. the stipulation is that:

1- The contract must have the consent of both parties. If any party does not consent, then the
contract becomes invalid.
2- It is temporary.
3- The owner is free to set 'any' price that he deems fair. If the renter does not like it,
he can go somewhere else. That is why it
4- Under NO circumstance does the renter become 40% co-owner.
5- The act of renting is a source of income. Yes! Believe it or not the owners rent to make money.
And should be able to maintain the rentals and live off the earnings.

The old rent law breaks all these rules and it should have been rectified back in 1992.

To bigjohn, from your repetitive phrases you seem to be confused or ignorant
of the meaning of the word 'RENT". When someone rents a chalet, car, apartment
or anything.. the stipulation is that:

1- The contract must have the consent of both parties. If any party does not consent, then the
contract becomes invalid.
2- It is temporary.
3- The owner is free to set 'any' price that he deems fair. If the renter does not like it,
he can go somewhere else.
4- Under NO circumstance does the renter become 40% co-owner.
5- The act of renting is a source of income. Yes! Believe it or not the owners rent
to make money. And should be able to maintain the rentals and live off the earnings.

The old rent law breaks all these rules and it should have been rectified back in 1992.

Hope they will move on to organize foreign ownership, especially those filthy GCC residents who can come to lebanon as visitors but unfortunately they own now the best plots and forever! Knowing that Lebanese cannot own shit in their nasty desert countries,,,!
Hope morales will wake up here and treat foreigners the way they treat us

@bigjohn: *I* am one of the people you call filthy capitalist landlords. I DO NOT have a steady income, in fact, I am struggling financially, and I have to go out and rent an apartment at market prices while a leech tenant stays in my apartment essentially for free. And to get him to leave I have to pay him 30-50% of the value of the apartment which he has been staying in for free!!! Tell me how that is fair?! I didn't even earn a penny from his rent over the last decades!!!!

Always extreme views, rarely someone posts anything that is balance on these forums. The old rent law is unfair to landlords, but it did help people back on their feet, most of whom were not the cause of the war. Secondly, some but not all have taken advantage of the old rent law, they were saving money and investing it elsewhere while living off the back of the landlord. The law needs to be adjusted to allow those who will end up on the streets to stay until their death (this does not include their children). A fair percentage of their wages should be paid to the landlord, this is for low-income owners. Those who are rich on old rent (and there are many trust me), should either leave or pay full mkt rates asap. Problem solved.