Legislature passes controversial bill to block new Indy landlord-tenant rules

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5 thoughts on “Legislature passes controversial bill to block new Indy landlord-tenant rules

  1. The manner in which this legislation was passed by the Republican super-majority-controlled legislature was a sham, which makes the resulting legislation a sham. Governor Holcomb should veto it. And then the legislature should assign the issue to a study committee where a balance of needs can be thoughtfully and filly researched, heard, and considered. Anything less impugns the credibility of the legislative process, the legislature, and the governor.

  2. What about a landlord bill of rights that tenants pay their rent and not destroy the property and cause thousands of dollars in damage. I’m so sick of the city council looking out for the people who abuse the system. Takes forever to get a non paying tenant out and I pay double in property taxes. What is fair about that?

  3. People really need to look at the Eviction Lab report everybody refers to. The data is 2016, not today. IU’s October of 2019 study, which in fact took into consideration the Eviction Lab’s data, breaks it down farther, into the “why” are tenant’s evicted. Their report states the vast majority stop paying rent on time, or stop paying at all. Its expensive to evict a tenant, so landlords don’t rush to evict on a whim. Its a losing situation for both sides; tenants are without a home, but tenants that are evicted rarely leave the home undamaged. Then the landlord, who wasn’t getting rent, now has to get a judgement for not only the unpaid rent, but the damage. More times then not, its years to collect, if you ever do.
    The good landlords far outweigh the bad ones, but they like to put us all in the same barrel. The new city ordinance will do nothing to curb bad actors (it won’t curb bad landlords and it certainly won’t curb bad tenants). Bad landlords could care less about the fines, etc.. The good landlords are the ones who will be audited, fined, etc.. The city plans to use the totally failed Landlord Registry to audit Landlords to make sure their required form is in each tenant’s file. Guess what, the bad Landlords don’t register, thus they won’t be the ones audited, and dinged $500 for each form that might be missing. And in their wisdom, they didn’t take into account month to month leases (though it was brought to their attention). The Tenant Rights form needs to be signed upon each renewal…..thus, every month I would have to go to my executives, or college traveling scholars, and the like, who utilize the month to month temporary leases, and say “please sign here”. The city council did a jam it down your throat move, and the apartment association aside, took NO consideration of the single family home landlord, let alone the entire picture. I am all for the funding of attorneys to educate tenants. Maybe, just maybe they will educate them that they have to follow the terms of their lease, pay rent when due, and DO NOT trash the house. I personally can’t wait for the governor’s signature. The city council and mayor have no idea how poorly their ordinance was researched, let alone it won’t solve anything they are trying to solve.

  4. As a Landlord for 31 years, it already takes about 5 weeks to get a court hearing and tenants can trash the property, live for free, and run from any judgements. Tenants also have their say in court. And there is a lease. A retaliatory eviction cannot happen with a lease in front of a judge. These barriers will just make it harder for tenants to find a quality property. But if it makes the do-gooders happy, I’ll staple the Rights and Responsibilities to every lease, which is in fact, a lease.

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