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Real easy, have the tenants pay directly to the city to pay off the cost of paying the water bill and make sure tenants get a receipt. Contact federal government if any are on section 8 have the funds paid to city until all funds recovered.
That makes no sense. Why should the tenants have to pay what the landlord is supposed to pay? That’s just penalizing the victim. Of course, Citizen’s Energy and the City of Indianapolis have been victimized and should do everything in their power to recoup the money, and either get these landlords on the right path, or take legal action to oust those owners.
I agree with Charles B. that the legislature is on the wrong side of these issues. The landlords don’t need the protection, the tenants do!
Yet Indiana’s State Legislature keeps on passing landLORD protection laws . Making Indiana the best State for the worst landLORDS to exploit their tenants.
Our laws clearly need immediate changes if a landlord can continue to collect rent with the water shut off, while the rest of the City taxpayers pay the landlord’s bill for them. This agreement with Citizens should include the City of Indianapolis collecting the tenants’ rent that would otherwise go to the landlord until the full bill is paid off. $1.3 million / 868 units = ~$1,500 per unit. I’m guessing that’s probably about two months rent. There should be a simple provision in state law that if a landlord fails to provide basic requirements of the lease, such as running water, the tenants can pay that bill in lieu of rent to the landlord, and there can be no eviction or other adverse actions from the landlord. Is that really so hard for the Indiana legislature to understand and implement?
This Jersey based giant slumlord now owes the city 1.3mil. The city should first demand repayment within two months. Second, the city needs to place a lien on the property. Third, when the dirtbag company fails to pay in two months (inevitable), the city will have every right to enforce the lien and seize ownership of the property. That would work in process just like sheriff sale taxes-owed private properties.Once the city owns the property, they can hire whoever they chose to redevelop or demolish it, or sell it to whoever they want to partner with to fix it up. And it needs to be a developer who isn’t going to try to “flip it” and gentrify it into $1300 luxo condos. It needs to be basic well constructed good-value housing.