Posted on 08/08/2024 5:28:12 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU
DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — Local leaders are looking to help more renters find a stable place to live with a new court-instituted rule.
The Dayton Municipal Court will now seal eviction records. Dayton Clerk of Courts Marty Gehres says the goal is to create a fairer housing market. “Some local landlords and landlords across the country use databases that do background checks and if an individual does have an eviction on their record, it becomes extremely difficult for them to actually obtain long term stable housing,” said Gehres.
Gehres says the new rule will also have an impact on children.
“One of the most important aspects of any child’s life is having safe, affordable, stable housing,” he said.
The rule only applies to evictions that occurred within the Dayton city limits. Last year, there were roughly 3,000.
Gehres encourages all other local area courts to adopt similar rules to allow tenants a fresh start.
“Hopefully this will have a huge impact and allow people an ability to get into safe and affordable housing,” said Gehres.
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This is pure unadulterated BS.
Thanks to the useful idiot judge in Dayton landlords will have to take anybody!
It’s almost like the government is nationalizing the housing stock so that it can be used for social engineering and immigration. Some landlords and other suckers may believe that they “own” property, but the government will determine its use. Kind of like fascism.
>>Thanks to the useful idiot judge in Dayton landlords will have to take anybody!
Or, more likely, landlords will create their own searchable database of deadbeat/evicted tenants and not rely upon court records.
Another chapter for UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES. I predict there will be fewer rental properties in the future as the owners decide to sell rather then deal with renters.
The judge in Dayton, at the behest of his handlers, is setting up a system where Dayton landlords can dump their problems on landlords in other municipalities. Landlord insiders in Dayton will know who not to rent to but landlords in other municipalities lost one means to track problems.
The head of the Massachusetts motor vehicles commission got caught doing this on a large scale several years ago, where Massachusetts driver's license suspensions were not reported to other states, incentivizing people to leave Massachusetts for neighboring states so they could still drive. That all came to light only when a repeat DUI offender from Massachusetts killed several people in a crash in New Hampshire.
This is also common with bail. Democrat dumps set bail to encourage the criminals to leave for other jurisdictions. As long as they never return, they'll never have to pay the money or do time.
IF they can sell before something called “Good Cause” legislation sets in. Just passed universally in downstate NY. Upstate cities are opting in to it as well.
Basically you are not even allowed to SELL your OWN PROPERTY if a tenant is there and thumbs it down. Your lease can’t just “non renew.” It renews automatically UNLESS the tenant wants to move. Happening in the UK as well.
Actually the mom and pops will sell (hopefully before “Good Cause” lands in their area which gives ALL the property rights to the TENANT).
The more saavy will just up their screening. I’m in upstate NY where evictions have been sealed since 2019 AND “Good Cause” can be opted in to. I have a 50 question PRE screen questionnaire in which they have to upload a screenshot of their credit score even before they tour or apply.
Out of 145 responses, only 3 were eligible to proceed with the application process:
1. credit score over 600
2. no smoking/vaping anywhere on premises
3. 3X income ratio to rent
Most had terrible rental histories and constant drama causing bad tenant nomadic life style.
It is clear you are unaware of alternative norms which give our Democracy strength from diversity.
An agent from the DHS will come by soon.
‘Safe and affordable’ does not trump “Its mine and you have to pay me to live here.”
How bad is it when you accidentally get one of these troubling type renters into one of your properties?
Is it always a lengthy process to remove them?
Do they usually damage the property while there and especially on their way out the doors?
Seem like being a landlord is a tough business these days.
If it doesn’t exist, form a landlord association in Dayton and or the surrounding counties. Start an eviction database and all the members contribute information to it.
“Some landlords and other suckers may believe that they “own” property, but the government will determine its use.”
That’s absolutely true. You don’t own that property, you’re just managing it for the government and you better do as they say or else.
They tell you who you can rent to, how much you can charge, how and whether you can get rid of somebody, the paperwork you must use, and on and on.
so glad we unloaded our rental!!!
I can't imagine what kind of landlords there are left in that dump.
One of many reasons mom-and-pop operations are selling their rental properties to large corporations - who come in, refurbish the properties or turn them into pricey condos and then jack up the rent.
It is happening all over Southern California.
My own family is trying to get out of the rental business - that we’ve had since the 70s - our lawyer told us to get the renters out now in order to sell the properties would cost us $30-50,000 per eviction. In So Cal, the renters have all the rights.
You are correct. That, though, will lead to housing complexes built with taxpayers money.
Yes.
We had one “renter” who was obviously mentally ill - the boyfriend was the primary renter on the lease and allowed her to move in, without us knowing. He fled the property, called and apologized to us.
It was hell to go through the eviction process, the judge kept siding with the mentally ill woman - the neighbors complained to us bitterly of screaming in the middle of the street overnight, trash strewn across the front lawn, dangerous confrontations etc. The police were called repeatedly, including helicopters that were sent out.
The judge kept siding with her, giving her reprieve after reprieve - told her she repeatedly she had “90 days” to come up with back rent - of around 18 months. The ONLY reason we finally won was b/c she didn’t show up in court - for the 4th time.
We FINALLY got the eviction notice, went through the process, the sheriff came out to do the eviction and then wouldn’t touch it b/c the “renter” was obviously mentally ill. It then became a waiting game - we had a locksmith standing by ($$). Finally, after several hours, she came out of the house and onto the street and the sheriff told us go GO with the locksmith and change the locks. Neighbors told us later she was left on the street and they weren’t sure what happened after that.
House was 100% trashed - we’d turned off the electricity and water so there was raw sewage all over the floors, the “renter” used the floors as a toilet - the kitchen had been broken apart with a sledgehammer, it looked like, the walls had holes in them. My brother wouldn’t let me into the house b/c it was so toxic, etc. We thought we might have to tear the house down b/c there was so much damage, but didn’t have to in the end. Cost a LOT of money to fix it back up and have had great renters ever since.
Our property manager does background checks on all of our renters but if the past eviction issue is taken off the table, that makes it very dicey for us to rent to anyone - we are trying to get out of the rental business now that has been in our family for 50 years.
There’s always a work-around. I’m glad I got rid of my rental-had no issues, but didn’t want to wait around for them to pop up.
Thank you for sharing. It sounds like a difficult business in today’s climate. And that is if you live near your rentals and can keep close tabs on them. I cannot imagine how one could be an absentee landlord living in another state, for example. I would think all profit margin would go to a management service to monitor it locally.
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