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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]One huge issue is landlord tenant issues. Laws have gone way too far to the left. Most people are refusing to rent since it has become WAY to risky to do so. You need to have serious cash in the bank if you fall on a dishonest tenant who decides not to pay his rent. Happened to us and we lost 25,000$, between attorney fees, court time and fees, cleaning up, and having a vacant unit after the loser left. Making it easier to evict would assure more units available on market, and more landlords would take a risk, even with lower income tenants.[/quote]

Yep---tenant laws are a great example of how DC shoots itself in the foot.  DC's tenant laws are so one-sided that they actually decrease the supply of affordable housing because ordinary, decent small landlords want nothing to do with DC.  The hassle of being able to rent out one or two properties far exceeds the upside.

Voting for Marcus Goodwin and Vincent Orange.  Orange may be ethically challenged, but at least he has the institutional knowledge of how DC got back on its feet after the Control Board debacle of the 1990s, and he understands business.  Goodwin also has some business sense.  But the rest of the Council has absolutely no understanding of how business works.[/quote]

Thank God that both of your candidates with lose.  Goodwin is too experienced and Orange is a buffoon.[/quote]

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