Many landlords have helped tenants find counseling, energy assistance, security deposits, parenting classes and more. It is in our interest to help them become responsible tenants. However, no matter how hard we try, we are not always successful and on occasion our efforts are taken for granted and we must still evict them. Having been a landlord for over thirty years, it seems that our hands are tied more than ever. Properties are being abandoned and let go to ruin because we have no control.
Landlords have no future in allowing property to be run down.
Soon, Landlords will have no future , period. Communities must be as concerned about their landlords as they are about the other businesses that they support. We supply the housing and we need the respect and support of the city departments and community as does any business that fights to survive. Whereas before, landlords seemed passive, we now intend to be visible and vocal about laws that allow tenants to hold landlords' property and futures ransom for their own vices. All landlords are neighbors, brothers, sisters, constituents, friends.