City Council Postpones Action on Expanded Rental Regulations

[clubboss]

From the month a tenant stop paying rent, to the day we finally get a bailiff to the property is between 3 and 4 months. I manage 2 apartment buildings – 15-unit buildings. The company I work for owns 6 apartment complexes – the majority are 30-unit properties. The owners do not file on any delinquent tenants until they have missed 2 rent payments. While there are many late payments, the clear majority of all the tenants pay their rent and aren’t a problem. Evictions are rare – typically tenants will simply move on, and not wait until they are physically removed from the premises.
We no longer accept NSO, RPI, CMA, Southwest Solutions, or any agency acting as an intermediary for Housing Choice Vouchers. Most of the evictions involved tenants that were not paying their own rent. Mentally unstable, cross addicted individuals, who are incapable of taking care of themselves [[personal hygiene), let alone an apartment. Turning the apartment into a flop house, party house, or worse, sell drugs out of the building.
I’ve seen an uptick in rentals this past summer, working individuals that get up, go to work and support themselves. We require a lease – credit check, 1^st months’ rent and security deposit, which equals the 1^st rent payment. Don’t like the conditions and rules, apartments are a nickel a dozen in Detroit – keep stepping down the road.
Maintenance costs are prohibitively high – plumbing, electrical, appliances [[we provide A/C, Fridge, Stove) and apartment turnover – cleaning, painting, and bringing the apartment back to move-in condition are a few examples.

[Honky Tonk]

From the month a tenant stop paying rent, to the day we finally get a bailiff to the property is between 3 and 4 months. I manage 2 apartment buildings – 15-unit buildings. The company I work for owns 6 apartment complexes – the majority are 30-unit properties. The owners do not file on any delinquent tenants until they have missed 2 rent payments. While there are many late payments, the clear majority of all the tenants pay their rent and aren’t a problem. Evictions are rare – typically tenants will simply move on, and not wait until they are physically removed from the premises.
We no longer accept NSO, RPI, CMA, Southwest Solutions, or any agency acting as an intermediary for Housing Choice Vouchers. Most of the evictions involved tenants that were not paying their own rent. Mentally unstable, cross addicted individuals, who are incapable of taking care of themselves [[personal hygiene), let alone an apartment. Turning the apartment into a flop house, party house, or worse, sell drugs out of the building.
I’ve seen an uptick in rentals this past summer, working individuals that get up, go to work and support themselves. We require a lease – credit check, 1^st months’ rent and security deposit, which equals the 1^st rent payment. Don’t like the conditions and rules, apartments are a nickel a dozen in Detroit – keep stepping down the road.
Maintenance costs are prohibitively high – plumbing, electrical, appliances [[we provide A/C, Fridge, Stove) and apartment turnover – cleaning, painting, and bringing the apartment back to move-in condition are a few examples.

Finally, reality world.

[Richard]

Back in the 70s when Minneapolis was starting their rebuilding / rebirth we bought a 6 story apartment building from the city for $1.

We started renovating from the top down renting the units as they were put online,we were down to the third floor when a tenant mentioned a water leak from the ceiling.

We had rented the apartment above to some asians and when we gained access they had kept one room for living and all of the other rooms had plastic and dirt on the floors as gardens for growing herbs and spices.

It had taken a lot of time to perserve the originality of the units and it was runied beyond saving again.

Lots of both nightmare tenants and landlords.