City Code Inspectors

[Nathan Harden]

Hello my fellow Canton investors!

I have owned some rentals in Canton for about a year now and am slowly getting tired of the Canton code inspectors. By no means am I trying to slumlord my rentals in anyway. I just got done with a 2 month, $55,000 rehab on a SH property then the Code inspector went in and pointed out the most pointless stuff that I have ever seen. 3 pages worth of repairs is what I received in the mail. CRAZY! This is not the only time that I have dealt with this but what really opened my eyes is I just asked my insurance rep for a quote for an off market 6plex that was brought to me and she pretty much warned me that a lot of her clients are steering away from investing in the Canton City jurisdiction strictly because of the code inspectors.

Have any of you ran in to this problem? In a way it feels like the City is making it more difficult for landlords to hang around because yearly inspections with a laundry list of repairs makes it real difficult to cash flow when my cash flow is just being held for the future, inevitable inspection.

My opinion/thoughts. Would love some insight from others!