Many in the community want/need clean affordable housing. Many in the Olympia area have provided such housing over the decades. And yet there is now have a new list of rules, regulations, and fees to property owners who may wish to rent out properties. The City is now asking, "For a March 18, public comment date", for this issue. We have all seen how the city council ignores public comment. They listen and smile and some even agree with the public comment, but they vote 99% of the time in lockstep with each other, and it is usually for their own agenda and to disregard public comment. They are trying to "help renters". Yet this proposal will only drive rental rates higher and higher. Don't they see that? When you force expensive outside inspections onto property owners, of course the rent will rise. When you force into place rules that give less and less assurance to the property owner that they will receive their rental fees so that they can pay their mortgages, of course rental rates will rise. And of course the next step in their "march to fairness" will be rental rates dictated by the city, such as "rent control". All of this means that Olympia will lose a large group of rental housing, the "Mom and Pop" rental owners will leave this business. You will be left with Corporate owners, huge rents, expensive housing for all.
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