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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]It’s strange that they wouldn’t pass the amendment to sunset in 5 years so that the future council could evaluate the efficacy.
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I tell you, between this and the difficulties in evicting tenants, as a landlord I’d take care to protect my margins by making sure that my prospective renters are credit worthy.  It would be worth paying for full background checks before signing that contract…but I’m not enough of a masochist to be a landlord.[/quote]

It's not strange at all. Why go to all of that trouble for a bill with an automatic expiration date? There is nothing to stop any future council from evaluating the efficacy without a sunset date.

And since you're not a landlord, it doesn't really matter what you believe you would do if you were a landlord, which you aren't. I am a landlord. Credit/background checks are currently routine. The county even helps small landlords with it. If you don't have good credit/background, you are stuck with slummy landlords who charge you more rent for worse housing.[/quote]

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