For one, that a local government – like the current battle in Lakewood, Washington – would require inspections of all private rental properties with few exceptions, is a stratagem more often seen acted out during elementary school recess than one would expect to see issuing from the recesses of city hall. In a word: bullying.
Lakewood
Westside Story – City of Lakewood Confiscates $2,880,000
In 2018, our City of Lakewood will force rental property owners into a game of financial Russian roulette.
Westside Story – Pencil Vs. Gun
I have lived in Lakewood for close to a half a century. During many of those years, I owned at least 7 rental homes in Lakewood. This was all before Lakewood decided to punish good landlords. Lakewood’s punishment in the form of the Residential Rental Inspection Program is set to begin in the year 2018.
Westside Story – Government Is Not Always Right
We need Federal, county and city government to accomplish what we, as citizens, cannot do on our own. Most politicians and government employees are impressive, dedicated, and hard working individuals. We can’t make it in life without them.
Westside Story – Harvard Law School
Having commenced my quest to become a writer back in November of 2010, I am certain my long-term readers would agree that as I push toward 400 published articles, I have written about a wide variety of subjects. Some topics were political. Some topics were comical. Some were personal. Some were supportive of our citizens, […]
Letter: City seeks forgiveness for Rental Inspection cost ‘oversight’
The “custom software solution to support the Rental Housing Safety Program”, described by the city as ‘complex and sophisticated’, is now five times the original estimate. Of the $200,000 cost overrun the city says was unforeseen but necessary to develop the deluxe program by which to ‘register and administrate the rental units’ in Lakewood, the […]
Letter: Why I Row
I guess because I can. My goodness, the boathouse where I work sits right on the shore of the lake, and the water, especially this morning, beckons. So, no excuses.
Letter: Rental inspection meetings no one attended
What if they gave a war and nobody came? Or no one attended a meeting in order to shame Lakewood City leaders who now, after the fact, Will inform landlords of its own version of the landlord-tenant act.
Letter: Decisions, decisions – marijuana legalization, rental inspection
And the list of such contentious issues could go on, and on. And on. What do they have in common, other than of course the sometimes-volatile exchanges verbally and in print? More importantly, how are decisions made concerning them?