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6 comments:
Aaron, are you just letting us know about who owns what slum? Good info.
Maybe it also reflects on a community that didn't pay any attention to a drug problem 10yrs. ago, when it started. No landlord starts out a "slumlord" it happens with the tear down of the property that they bought to begin with. There are some pretty slick people out there that conceal what they really are when they rent. One moves in and then you have 4 in the door and it's hard to get them out. Eviction takes time and a lot of money. I know, I'm a landlord. Make it easier on us and we might be able to clean up the problem. I've had my rental thrashed twice because of tenets I evicted. Cost me over $5000.00 each time. At that rate you start to wonder why you bother fixing anything. One of my tenets was a business man and his family. If you don't own property and had no dealings with this process, you should not be putting the blame on anyone, especially landlords.
Anon;
I am a landowner and a landlord. I agree; the law makes it pretty tough. However, you either knew or should have known the law before you went into business renting property.
All the screening in the world will not guarantee you a good tenant. If you have bottom of the barrel rental properties getting bottom dollar, you are pretty much guaranteed to have bottom of the barrel tenants.
Where should "bottom of the barrel" tenants live when the "slumlords" quit renting to them? I think your post on the DOC has more merit than blaming landlords for the criminal activity of their tenants. As a community we cannot improve our troubled neighborhoods by eliminating low dollar housing. The poor will not just dry up and die when housing becomes unavailable. There will just be more economic pressure to commit crime to cover the higher rent.
"Didn't pay any attention to a drug problem 10yrs. ago, when it started."
Huh?
I thought that's why we built the jail???
As a person who needed low cost housing at one point in my life, I take offense at the implication that ALL low-income people are going to be dealing drugs and trashing the rentals. I had a very hard time finding a place to live that I could afford, very nearly living in a homeless shelter with my two daughters after leaving an abusive husband. I had a full time job, but had to pay full time day care, feed the kids and pay rent, power, etc. The community NEEDS low cost housing. Just don't put ALL low income people in the same low class bracket. I could barely afford $400/mo, the place I rented was a dive (the roof leaked whenever it rained and the basement would flood and not drain), the landlord would not fix these problems (told me if I didn't like it, I could move), but I cut my lawn and planted flowers... painted the inside and mended the porch, bought covers for all the celing fixtures (and left them there when I moved), and hung curtian rods (left them, too). Many of my friends at the time were low income, also, and did their best to better their neighborhoods, too.
Yes, many low income folks DO come with their criminal element, but DO NOT profile ALL low income people into this stereotype.
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