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Letters to the Editor
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
On Rental Housing Business: Owner Exits by Selling His Rentals to Owner / Occupants
So glad I am out of this housing provider job of catering to spoiled “entitled” tenants. No more cleaning toilets, stopped plumbing, bad attitudes, late or unpaid rent, parking problems, trash, lies, constant repairs, theft, drug addiction, thousands of other problems, unreasonable and costly regulations, inspections, being vilified for providing a necessary service, and so much more!
- Anonymous, Long Beach
On Executive Director Message: ‘Shall We Call “It” Irony or
Hypocrisy, or Both?’
I always enjoy reading your article in Apartment Age [Magazine], but November was the best...You call it like it is...no bullshit!
- Gary D., Long Beach
On “Criminals Pillage Where ‘Lax On Crime’ DAs Rule” (January 2022)
Thank you for publishing Eric Siddal’s editorial, “Criminals Pillage Where ‘Lax On Crime’ DAs Rule.” I feel a little validated that someone like Mr. Siddal has courageously acknowledged that crime is really happening to an extreme that it is costing real money. As a housing industry advocate, I am often asked about my priorities and where we rental housing providers are spending more money. Typically, when I am asked about where we are experiencing expense growth, I respond with naming the regular suspects like trash and water.
However, as I sat on the question a bit for this year, I revised my number one expense to be crime. Between the time we spend defending our properties from trespassers (e.g., homeless), the waste created by homeless people that must be cleaned up by people we pay, the damage to property caused by uninsured motorists or illegal dumping on our properties of mattresses and the like, property crime, as well as many other related things, this cost is entirely real.
These costs will be carried by us indefinitely if crime isn’t suppressed and law and order resume. There is no control when there is no consequence. We also should anticipate that as the crime rate continues to escalate and retailers and others file insurance claims or we in the housing business file claims, our insurance rates will also escalate. Once they go up, they will never come back down. This will inevitably drive up the cost of everything from consumer goods to rental housing.
Really quite amazing!
- Christine L., San Diego - Robert U., Manhattan Beach
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