Article – Enough is enough: Tenants join landlord in Bay Area exodus

SAN JOSE – Tony Hicks moved to San Jose in 1981, but he’s had enough.

Hicks told his 11 tenants he would soon place the three homes he owns on the market. He expected disappointment. Instead, most wanted to move with him to Colorado.

“It didn’t take them long,” Hicks said. “I was surprised.”

This article, ostensibly, is about high real estate prices in California and how it’s driving some people out of the state. Really, nothing in the article that is particularly interesting to people who are interested the sortsa things you and I follow.

But….

Read the article closely. Basically, this guy established relationships with his tenants, who became long-time tenants, and many of them are retired or highly mobile so they can really live anywhere. And…they’re packing up to move with him to a new out-of-state location to continue to rent from him in the new properties he’s going to buy/build.

So…do you see what happened here? This guy, totally by accident, is creating an actual community of like-minded individuals. I’m not saying they’re survivalists, but rather that he’s established these relationships, and gotten to be part of these peol[es lives (and vice versa), to the point that theyre willing to pack up and ‘keep the family together’.

We always think about communities and how they would be started… here’s an example of a guy who completely inadvertently created his own community. It’s rather interesting.

4 thoughts on “Article – Enough is enough: Tenants join landlord in Bay Area exodus

  1. No disrepect intended ( I have relatives in California), but I don’t want Californians to leave. I want them to secede. Then build a wall. A really, really big one.

    • To be fair to them they are less”Californians” and more people who at some time just happen to live in California. I’m told that it could happen to the nicest of people.

  2. American’s are a mobile people and migration patterns are something to keep an eye on.

    Between the fires, mudslides, traffic, earthquakes, and high cost of living I figure you’ve got at least a few million of the 40M or so people that live in CA that are going to be packing up and heading elsewhere. That will pick up if/when big cities in the southwest start having problems with water and electricity. Can you imagine living in Vegas (metro pop. 1,951,269) without A/C?

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