I have this problem in a nearby home town:
This is a new battle and I need help on writing a good response.
The law of unintended consequences maybe. further discussion about vilification. class warfare.
http://www.vindy.com/news/2009/dec/17/landlords-object-to-plan-for-fees/
Landlords object to plan for fees
Draconian government plan to overtax
$1,000 per rental unit per year, with 20 percent of those
#1> working class poor are not thugs and drug dealers as the comments suggest.
#2> landlords are not slumlords, private ownership is best mode government.
#3> landlords will respond by not paying anything property tax nor the landlord tax. result will be $1million tax loss (negative )
Didn’t they read the cleveland saga?
Cleveland’s Foreclosure Mess: Plain Dealer Reporter Finds the Enemy, and Learns That It’s Their Government
The city provided mostly low-income buyers with down payment loans of up to $20,000 through the federally funded Afford-A-Home program, but did little to determine whether the people could actually afford to keep their homes.
For example, nearly half of 584 homes sold by the top three for-profit companies that tapped into the program over the eight years have gone into foreclosure. More than one-third of those homes have sold at sheriff’s sale or sit abandoned because banks did not take them back.