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Saturday, April 14, 2007

RENTAL CRITERIA BEST PRACTICES

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posted by Bob at Saturday, April 14, 2007

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

BEST PRACTICES:

1. Don't rent to someone if they have ANY criminal convictions in their past.

2. Don't rent to someone if they have "Evictions" on their record.

3. Don't rent to someone if they have less than perfect credit.

4. Don't tent to someone if they pay their rent late.

5. Don't rent to someone if their culture or behavior is such that it falls within the meaning of the city's nusiance laws which the city itself defines as follows:

c. This is a City ordinance that says no property owner shall allow a nuisance. There is a very long definition of what is a nuisance. Suffice it to say a nuisance is anything that bothers or annoys more than just one neighbor. If the nuisance activity continues, after the property owner receives a notice to discontinue the unacceptable behavior, we charge a misdemeanor.

As a side note to #5, this would just be common sense because if you do rent to these types of people, you will wind up being the criminal, not the tenant.

6. Don't rent to anyone who has been a vctim of domestic abuse. The "domestic abuse" incidents these people become invloved in almost always turn into disurbances which then fall under the city's nusiance laws.

7.Don't rent to anyone that does not have an income which is at least 3 times the amount of rent being charged....ie, $3,000.00 per month for a $1,000.00 per month apartment.

8. No students of any type. They party too much and take up all the parking on the street.

9. Don't rent to anyone with a good family structure and a large family. Too many family members coming and going will be construed as drug activity.

10. Don't rent to anyone who drives an older car which could and often is subject to repairs making it in-operable for periods of time until the owner can save the money needed for the repair.

Have any of the people reading these "Best Practices" ever fallen into any of these categories?

Perhaps when you were younger and starting out in life?

How would your life be different today if you were prevented from having one of the basic necessities of life such as a roof over your head.

Although the city of St Paul doesn't come right out and quote these "Best Practices," these are the things they enforce upon landlords not only through their politically correct "regulations" and "politial agendas," but also through their "Enforcers" such as the Police Department, Fire Department, LIEP and NHPI offices.

I believe these are a good share of the "Best Practices" Mr. Cullen is talking about.

While these gutless wonders on the City Council will not ever come out and say they agree with these "Best Practices," they are exactly the ones being enforced through inuendos, bureaucratic regulations, targeting and threats of other illegal actions and demolitions of the homes these above types of people live in.

Perhaps one of the City Council memebrs would like to come here and say they DO NOT believe in any or some of the above "Best Practices."

Who's first? How about you Lantry since you've got the biggest mouth of the whole bunch?

We'll be waiting to hear from you.

3:37 PM


Anonymous said...
Chuck:

Are you trying to blow every bit of credibility you have.

Everyone knows that the behavior and actions of the tenant or owner is what brings the city inspections department to the house in the first place. It has nothing to do with the house or getting the house fixed up. If that were the case, the city would look like Beverly Hills by now after 5 years of the city's Nazi style inspection tactics.

How is the owner supposed to manage his property when the city is looking over his shoulder 24/7 and trying to micro manage what the owner is doing?

Get a grip buddy!

4:10 PM


Anonymous said...
Reepke makes the comment

What actions we choose to take with those people who we invite onto our
properties or contract out our land rights to of our own free will, is up to us
and not up to the City.


The question I would like to ask Repke is who the hell are we supposed to rent to in some of these areas where the only people who are willing to rent there are the very same people that the city does not want renting there?

White middle class people with good jobs and cars are NOT looking to rent houses in Frogtown and the East Side.

4:54 PM

5:42 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

In other words, if you have rental property in some of the more marginal neighborhoods, you just don't rent to anyone right? But then you wind up with the city making you a registered vacant building and then you have to pay through the nose on the code compliance they want as part of teh vacant building deal. The city has it set up so you just cannot win no matter what you do.

11:52 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Bob you left out the authors name.

SLUMLORD

1:43 PM  

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