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POTTSTOWN COUNCIL KICKS ASS ON RENTAL INSPECTIONS, UNREGISTERED PROPERTIES
By Randy Radishovich – (Radish Report, staff writer)
Pottstown, March 5, 2015 Last night, overshadowed by ongoing talks about the contentious Fire Company Merger, the head of the License and Inspections Department, Don B. Innohurry, gave council the quick and dirty low-down on the revised, re-revised inspection plan.
Sources report that private talks between Innohurry and members of the Real Estate Investors Club revealed what officials already knew, “ we’re gonna sue the bejesus outta this town if you don’t let us write our own rules and break ‘em when we want to. Landlords in this town have reached the breaking point with your efforts to establish reasonable standards for us but you ignore the problems homeowners cause.”
Jack Mehoffer, the Club’s representative stated, “We don’t want some codes jockey poking around once a year to muck with stupid safety violations, our tenants won’t stand for it.”
“This has nothing to do with safety,” said Mehoffer, “you only want to snoop through the underwear drawers and look under the beds of our renters apartments for contraband and we will not roll over.”
Pottstown landlord, Dewey Cheatum, is reported to have told officials, “We’re tired of making our renters pick up after those homeowner pigs and we sure as hell aren’t going to do it any more. If you lazy f’ers can’t get control of them then we’re finished.”
Borough Attorney, Isaiah Backoff, addressed council and residents, “we considered Mr. Mehoffer’s advice and agreed that inspections will occur every 24 months not 12 months, if we get around to it.”
Backoff also noted that a six month grace period would give landlords “a little cushion and we felt that was the least we could do.”
It seemed officials had already forgotten the 2500+ unregistered rental properties found in a data report delivered to the borough in January, as council members busily checked their iPads, a few heads nodded off, during Backoff’s brief description.
But, Council President, Nevin Owen Uptoit, piped up at the last minute, soberly reminding Innohurry, “ if these inspections are going to work we have to expect that your department is going have inspected and registered the 2500 rogue rental units no later than 2021.”
Although there were no questions from council about what, if any, process has been established to meet the stringent 2021 deadline, Innohurry volunteered, “we’re beefing up staff now. We’ve already caught a few illegal rentals, in fact, we caught one today.”
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