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Wow…Just Wow…Another issue created by the Government and now another legislated remedy to fix the issue…WHERE IS THE MARION COUNTY HEALTH DEPT AND OR THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH? Don’t they have remedies in their bag of pursuits to curtail these unsafe rentals and landlords ? Research will suggest they have at their disposal lots of rules and regulations that would stop these defects especially if they relate to health issues…
We are losing our freedoms gradually day by day and this is another example. I do not like the idea of a landlord taking advantage of a tenant. I am a property owner myself and I treat people like I would like to be treated. Most landlords and property managers are the same way and if they do not take care of people, they will not be competitive and the market forces will regulate things. I also do not like when good honest people work hard and invest their capital in housing and assume that risk and then are over-regulated by bureaucrats who feel like they know better than everyone else. We have a legal system to handle this already and do not need any more laws. If the city continues on in this vein, it will end up hurting the housing market, as investors will put their money in other places and that would hurt the housing inventory and cause price increases. They need to stop and consider the effect of this legislation on people in the real world.
The number of evictions in Indianapolis is what started this mess. The city council, and our Mayor are insane if they think their ordinance will fix anything. If they (the city council committee) truly studied anything for over 6 months (as stated), who exactly were they getting information from? Certainly not the landlords, certainly not the majority of the small claims courts, and they certainly did not do any homework. They can skew their numbers all they want. In the hearings, which I attended, there wasn’t even a common number the councilors, the city attorney, or commenters from the public were using for exactly where Indianapolis ranks in evictions, let alone “why” most evictions are filed. They took and used those numbers as if the majority of evictions are all the landlord’s fault, and the homeless population is due to landlords, etc.. The EvictionLab numbers they used are from 2016 (4 years ago). How about reading IU’s study from October of 2019 (5 months ago), which clearly states most evictions are due to tenants not paying rent, and the lack of affordable housing. Yes, we have a problem with slumlords and some horrible management companies, but we have just as big a problem with bad tenants who trash their homes, or don’t pay their rent as agreed. The lack of affordable housing is a city problem. Landlords have experienced in the past few years, larger then normal increases in insurance due to crime the city can’t curb, real estate taxes going up due to a double whammy for IPS (for any home within IPS), cost of materials and labor for the simplest repair, etc.. Increases is operating costs turn into higher rents…..its a business, let us not forget. If we allow the city to railroad and dictate landlord’s lease language, and in time they see it did nothing to curb evictions, or help the lack of affordable housing, whats next…….rent control? The Mayor had said in a previous statement, the ordinance is not meant to hurt the landlords who do right, but in fact, that is all it will do. Slumlords will be slumlords, bad tenants will be bad tenants, an ordinance like this is not going to change that.