If the plan passes, alongside late fees and pet fees, the extra fees that would be outright banned would include renewal fees, change of lease fees, contacting building owner fee and an eviction notice fee.
I would like to see a housing provider protection act. Some mom-and-pop housing providers got abused during the eviction moratorium. So few want to be in the business. As long as the cost to evict deadbeats and fraudsters goes up, rent will go up. As Chicago piles on anti-landlord laws that favor criminals and squatters, maybe only big corporations with a legal staff can survive. Hope the big corporations keep demanding fees to help pay for property damage and to pay personnel and maintenance and a lawyer. Makes tenants aware they need to take responsibility for their actions and that… Read more »
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
I would like to see a housing provider protection act. Some mom-and-pop housing providers got abused during the eviction moratorium. So few want to be in the business. As long as the cost to evict deadbeats and fraudsters goes up, rent will go up. As Chicago piles on anti-landlord laws that favor criminals and squatters, maybe only big corporations with a legal staff can survive. Hope the big corporations keep demanding fees to help pay for property damage and to pay personnel and maintenance and a lawyer. Makes tenants aware they need to take responsibility for their actions and that… Read more »
Is it OK to upvote my own post?
Reese, we’d let you do it on that one if we could. You’re right on.