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  • Rental Property Investor
  • Portland, OR
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Portland wants to force me to accept violent crime felons.

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  • Rental Property Investor
  • Portland, OR
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So this is happening here:  

http://www.wweek.com/news/city/2018/05/08/portland...

As a landlord who does her own repairs, this is terrifying to me.  I'm imagining crawling under a sink to fix a leak, locked in a house alone with a recently convicted violent felon. 

Also, if I were a tenant in a building where I had to pass a rigorous screening, with the peace of mind knowing that all my neighbors did too, and suddenly the rules were changed and my neighbor ended up being a convicted felon of a violent crime, I would be up in arms.  Why do felons suddenly have more rights than victims?  

I can testify at city council meetings, but the commissioner proposing this doesn't care 2 licks about what any landlord says, and at least 2 of the 4 other commissioners tend to vote exactly the same as this commissioner.  I just don't know what to do anymore, short of selling everything, if I want the brain damage to end.  (This is the same commissioner who, last year, implemented into law a $4500 relo fee for landlords who give no-cause terminations at the end of a lease term.)

I'm just reaching out to you, my tribe, for commiseration.  In Portland, landlords have become the "untouchable" caste.  

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Either sell or adapt to operating under the radar. Our regulations are also very pro tenant and to survive you learn how to bend the rules to the breaking point. Smart investors must work around rules and take risks to survive. There are semy legal ways to eliminate every possible applicant.

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