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Renters who used their apartment units for work and school should, in fact, be PAYING EXTRA for the wear and tear their overuse has caused, but instead our rents are frozen. Its America tenants can exercise First Amendment rights by blaming property owners for their troubles and can feel free to abuse property without responsibility – I don’t live in my apartment units, so how can any of this be my fault.
A burst pipe or water damage on a wall that tenants often fail to report a change until its drastic only costs me more money. We landlord don’t have Xray vision or psychic abilities to know if a mechanical or any other problem exists or is developing. We expect proper, timely notification from our tenants so damage can be remedied before getting out of control. Is that too much to expect from the adults renting at our properties? And to make matters worse, tenants have taken a rent holiday for nearly two years now, but landlords still have bills that need to be paid like property taxes insurance, etc.
All levels of government today are guilty of a “double standard” regarding proper maintenance and what is acceptable. The streets are filled with trash, homelessness, drug addicts, graffiti, broken and dangerous sidewalks, inoperable lighting, etc. In my opinion, ALL GOVERNMENT SECTORS HAVE FAILED TO MAINTAIN THE REPAIR AND CLEANLINESS OF LOS ANGELES. Before you pick on businesses, landlords and other property owners, look in the mirror and FIX IT cleaning-up Los Angeles with all the tax money we have already paid to you. Los Angeles is trashed and an embarrassment. Just walk down Ventura Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley and surrounding streets and you will see what I mean. The streets and sidewalks and alleys are blocked by encampments and trash, and they have become a graffiti tagging mecca. Property owners have paid their taxes, and I now call on the government now to fix the damage caused by your lack of law and order, enforcement of existing civilized laws and the doctrines of common sense.
- Michele F., Los Angeles
Members Respond for ‘Twos Days’ (2/22/22) Grass Roots Efforts
Today, on 2/22/22, we remind you that we too are abused - and you are the abusers.
We are the housing providers of Los Angeles. We give so others can live; always have, always will. We are the Welcome Mats into your constituents’ homes. Yet you step on us like floor mats.
This City, this County, this State treat us as villains. Always have, always will.
We are the first to get our livelihoods strangled by mountains of the most complex, often conflicting, restrictive regulations -- many of doubtful Constitutionality — than any other government has ever dared concoct.
Everywhere else in the world, the world is returning to normalcy. Here normalcy was often idiocy, but you’ve decided the time’s not right to correct that.
The way we are governed undermines our region’s reputation. And is the underpinning of the perception of So-Cal as an impossible place to do business.
Keep it up and you will undoubtedly make this -- from the sidewalks to the penthouses — even more of an impossible place
to live.
“Send in the Clowns” (February 2022)
M. Fritz F., Los Angeles
Please inform Daniel Yukelson his article “Send In the Clowns” is perfect. If picketing City Hall is ever organized by someone younger than I (I’m 82 years-old), I’ll join the picket line. The moratorium on giving handouts to renters has to stop!
Lynn T., Los Angeles
KABC’s “Mottek on the Money Show” (March 8, 2022)
I just finished listening to Mr. Yukelson’s “Mottek on the Money” radio segment. Thank you, Mr. Yukelson, a thousand times for doing that! You did really, really great... I liked your emotion and I liked how well you articulated the apartment
owner’s condition.
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- David G., Woodland Hills