Craig Miller wrote:
> Kudos Mr. Luce for bringing this to the forum! He has caught the spark in > the ether. All this work and the extraordinary cost generates from the > behavior of a tenant. Not the landlord. Because this citizen/tenant > routinely broke the law, the house was condemned! We the taxpayers killed > the house,for the crimes committed by a non-law abider. This is being > 504ed. A quick clarification-- the person against whom the county attorney brought the nuisance action was . . . the homeowner. The landlord/owner we are now helping had co-signed on the mortgage and has now assumed responsibility for the mess. But, my point is, this was not tenant oriented, it was owner-oriented. More grist: a county attorney initiated action is a criminal proceeding in which the county seeks and obtains, in some cases, a permanent injunction that prevents the owner from doing certain things. It also closes the building for one year (the statute says that the court's order of abatement "must direct the closing of the building or a portion of it for one year. . . "). The statute is on-line at: http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/617/83.html A city-initiated license revocation action based on "conduct on premises" is a civil administrative action to revoke the property owner's rental license. The city's administrative process is long and tedious, so if a license has been revoked it generally has gone through a great deal of scrutiny before it reaches that point-- giving the landlord a lot of time to get his or her act together. Finally, I appreciate Jay Clark's input on another thread about the neighborhood shutting down/condemning buildings. That too has been my observation. Just last Thursday, a community leader said she'd rather see a four-plex demolished than be rented out again under the same landlord. Gregory Luce N.Phillips _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
