The state Appellate Division yesterday upheld former Superior Court Judge Bill Mathesius’s 2009 decision to strike down two Ewing ordinances aimed at controlling rowdy college students living in rental housing through occupancy and parking restrictions.
Mar 23
Why doesn’t the city use the same legal action against homeowners as they do against commercial property owners?
And why does the city allow some homeowners two, three or six years and counting to remodel, paint, landscape, etc.? Why is it OK for homeowners to maintain “eyesores” but not OK for commercial property owners? This is clearly a case of double standards.
via Daily Pilot
Mar 10
“It’s easier to blame the white landlord than to say you don't like black people,” Ploof said Thursday when informed of the complaints by a reporter. “My personal thought is people try to pick on the white landlord rather than make the issue that we don’t like the tenants.”
via Times Union.
Mar 08
“But, as government here begins to implement things like the rental registration, it is only going to further suppress having investors that want to put in money and want to help. That is going to suppress that here and they are not going to want to come.”
via Niagara Gazette
Jan 22
The owner of a Wilkes-Barre rental property has filed a federal lawsuit against Wilkes-Barre and city Code Enforcement Officer Frank Kratz, alleging Kratz shut down the property based on his personal animosity and disdain for the owner.
via The Times Leader.
Jan 04
An Arizona housing group that represents renters says the city’s proposed ‘landlord tax’ is unfair.
via KOLD News
Jan 02
Landlord Kevin Welch is frustrated.
He wants to help clean up the city, he said, but he doesn't think he should get hit with fines because his tenants don't follow the city's trash ordinances.
“I didn’t commit the offense,” he said. “So you can write me tickets until you're blue in the face, but you're not going to correct the problem.”
via SouthCoastToday.com.
Jan 01
FORD CITY — A lawsuit by a group of landlords against the borough over a business tax could be settled out of court.
The landlords, who are seeking to invalidate a 2009 tax which charged them $150 for each of their rental properties,
