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St. Paul plan would target bad landlords
A new fire inspection proposal in St. Paul would mean more frequent visits to rental properties with violations problems.
By Myron P. Medcalf, Star Tribune
After a fire injured seven people who were living in an over crowded St. Paul apartment in June, city inspectors found more than 30 code violations inside the building.
In response, city officials have proposed a new plan to reward landlords who maintain their residential properties and go after those who don't. Bob Kessler, the city's inspections chief, thinks the new plan could have uncovered those violations and possibly prevented the fire.
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A new fire inspection proposal in St. Paul would mean more frequent visits to rental properties with violations problems.
By Myron P. Medcalf, Star Tribune
After a fire injured seven people who were living in an over crowded St. Paul apartment in June, city inspectors found more than 30 code violations inside the building.
In response, city officials have proposed a new plan to reward landlords who maintain their residential properties and go after those who don't. Bob Kessler, the city's inspections chief, thinks the new plan could have uncovered those violations and possibly prevented the fire.
Please click onto the title of this post for the rest of the story.
posted by Bob at Wednesday, December 20, 2006
4 Comments:
The only thing that I think of is that no one will be on that nice list. They will find what they can to stick it to them. The owner will then have to stick lots of money into the places to bring them up to perfection. If they are implementing new plans, they can insist on "up to code" for these older buildings also.
Is this a way to demolish the larger buildings now? Are they as strict with PHA buildings? Is this a way of ousting the low income people who live in these buildings?
The more regulation they pass, the higher the rent. The city wants to save all these poor folks from themselves and I always wonder if people have such a bad apartment, why don't they just move? In the past, the know it alls would have us belive that there was no where affordable to go, but with the vacancy rates as high as they are, I don't get it. Take some responsibility for yourself and quit looking for the government to be your mommy. If you don't like your apartment, get off your ass and move out. There are plenty of good landlords to rent from.....such as the ones suing the city.
Thank you Bob for deleting that offensive ad. Can you imagine if Edemocracy regulars got a hold of that product. They would discover things that hadn't worked for years. I wonder if they sell this product for brain nerve endings. Hmmm well anyway they would loose the few posters that they still have LOL.
The family that was in the fire, could have taken the batteries out.
Just because they were deep frying things that made smoke.
On a hard wire fire alarm, they would do the same at the fuse box.
I see this happen, even at my home.
I own my home.
It's sad, but true.
We all do it.
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