[Summit] Fw: Licensing landlords

[Rebecca Kislak]

While landlords here do not have to be "licensed" out-of-state property
owners need to register a local agent.  I wonder whether this gets (in part)
at the same issue; sometimes it is important to be able to reach someone who
is local regarding a property.  Of course, this does not mean every
out-of-state landlord actually does this, but it is a current requirement in
RI law. 
Rebecca

On 5/25/11 6:46 PM, "Hope for Health" <libertyliterary at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The problem is, some really good landlords will
> decide not to do rentals because they don't want
> the hassle.  
> 
> --- On Wed, 5/25/11, shawnps at shawnps.com <shawnps at shawnps.com> wrote:
> 
>> From: shawnps at shawnps.com <shawnps at shawnps.com>
>> Subject: [Summit] Licensing landlords
>> To: summit at sna.providence.ri.us
>> Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2011, 3:15 PM
>> So Boston is considering licensing
>> landlords. How would this play out in
>> Providence? I'm for it.
>> 
>> Shawn
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.universalhub.com/2011/city-council-consider-licensing-landlords-ba
>> d-ones
>> 
>> City Council to consider licensing landlords; bad ones
>> could be barred
>> from renting property
>> 
>> By adamg - 5/25/11 - 2:13 pm
>> The City Council voted today it is fed up with absentee
>> landlords who let
>> their properties go to hell and backed a hearing proposed
>> by Councilor
>> Maureen Feeney (Dorchester) on cracking down on them.
>> 
>> Feeney said she plans a hearing at which she will consider
>> landlord
>> licensing that would "disqualify poorly attentive landlords
>> from operating
>> rental properties." Her hearing was co-sponsored by
>> Councilor Mike Ross.
>> 
>> Feeney told her colleagues, "It's being a good parent. When
>> you have
>> children who don't understand and you have landlords who
>> don't understand
>> what it is to be a good neighbor, then it's up to us.
>> People should not
>> live in our neighborhoods and feel unsafe. ... You're
>> adults, and it's
>> about time you start acting (like it)."
>> 
>> She said she's had enough of calling landlords in New York
>> and other
>> states trying to get work done on problem properties; she
>> cited one
>> elderly constituent now afraid to leave her house - or even
>> open her
>> windows - because of "punks" who have taken up in an
>> absentee-owned
>> property next door.
>> 
>> 
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