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increase. Why is that? That’s just not fair – none of this is fair.
Second, cities across the region have been increasing fees. In the City of Los Angeles, they hit us with a supplemental Systematic Code Enforcement Program (SCEP) bill and then increased the annual fees exponentially even though most of their employees were not even working and when they did decide to come work, they went to the nicest of buildings where they thought there would be money and wrote up ridiculous and unbelievable things to fix such as imaginary walls that needed permits or scratches on sinks and so on, so that they could keep hitting us with bills and threatening to keep our rent collections in a trust that we would likely never get back.
Third, trash hauling bills have gone through the roof and in many instances, service levels have gotten worse. The trash companies now just laugh when we call to complain because several cities have created a waste hauling monopoly and now, they do not need to perform to get paid allowing trash to pile up and stink, and now our streets have become terribly unsightly. In the City of Los Angeles, you can call the Department of Sanitation and you will be put on hold indef- initely, transferred around and deal with dismissive attitudes. Make sure to take notes of who you spoke to and make sure they take notes about you or you will be lost in the shuffle and be forced to start all over again. Calls to our elected officials have helped, but it has not completely re-solved my team’s issues. Wait until we add the mandatory composting
of organic matter which is coming sometime in 2022 to a building near you and required of you. I am looking forward to seeing rats the size of Volkswagen Bugs.
Fourth, the government shifted several months of past due tenant rent to civil debt so it now must be collected in civil court where our attempts to collect will more than likely die a slow and ex-pensive death - making property owners a giant collection agency. This is in addition to all the forms and notices they required to be served with strict deadlines, and at multiple times since the pandemic started. The help being provided by the state and city governments is very one-sided and beneficial only to our tenants. This is so unfair to the majority of owners who are small busi-ness landlords and who still must pay for maintenance expenses, utilities, mortgages, and taxes with a compromised cash flow in comparison to the amount of income their property would nor-mally generate and should generate.
There continues to be chatter about the moratorium being further extended, to “protect tenant rights.” Local, small business landlords are undoubtedly paying the price today, one way or another and it definitely feels like we are being kicked when we are already down.
George Kandon is a rental property owner and member of the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles. He has owned and managed rental properties for more than 40-years.
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