by peter_d_sherman | 2026-01-23 19:16:53+00:00
>I’m six months behind on rent, just managed to buy time after my first eviction notice, and I’m trying to get back into building without constantly worrying about when the next one shows up.

Why not create a broker website between people who are getting eviction notices and Lawyers who specifically help people who are getting eviction notices?

That is, use what you are...

Or rather (phrased another way),

use the set of circumstances you are in, to turn around the set of circumstances that you're in.

It may sound meta, but if you individually are having a problem -- then so are a ton of other people as well!

If solving that problem has value to you, then such a solution is worth money.

If many people are also having that problem, then solutions to that problem are also worth money to them!

Sure, a legal solution, for example, finding an appropriate Lawyer to extend the point in time before eviction for say, 1-2 months (or whatever can be done) may be a suboptimal partial solution (in an ideal world, you'd like your rent to be free forever, as would everyone else), but the thing is,

even suboptimal partial solutions are worth money, if only a little bit of money...

Phrased another way,

there's money to be made by acting as a broker between people with eviction problems and the subset of Lawyers who specialize in that field, who could potentially ameliorate that problem if only a tiny amount, if only a little bit...

There's also money to be made in books and online reports... "What to do if you get an eviction notice".

Which such a book or report might not be worth the price of rent (obviously if someone had the rent money they'd pay it, problem solved), that information may be worth $19.95, or something in that ballpark...

Scaled across thousands of people with the same problem -- and we're looking at some decent money!

It probably won't make you rich or anything... but (and this is going to sound "evil" -- but it is not intentionally so!) it might make you enough money to pay your rent! :-)

use what you are

use the set of circumstances you are in, to turn around the set of circumstances that you're in.

Education, Knowledge, and Experience are everything...

Money, if it exists, if it exists at all, exists relative to, as an effect of these things...

Do you know everything possible about every single Landlord/Tenant Law and every single possible way to resolve an eviction notice?

If not... then I'd suggest that you are in one hell of an opportunity to learn everything you can about the matter!

Expertise (in any subject matter) translates to being sought, to being paid (sometimes very highly!) by others in return for advice, in return for knowledge, in return for communicated experience...

Money will naturally follow you with this learning once you have it, and once you monetize it -- although this will probably not happen today or tomorrow -- but it will in the future, if you can see the opportunity and capture it!

use what you are

use the set of circumstances you are in, to turn around the set of circumstances that you're in

Wishing you well in this... experience!

(You know, for lack of a better term! :-) )