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Robert Steele
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Does your city have a rental registration program?

Robert Steele
  • Investor
  • Lucas, TX
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Does anyone else have these rental registration programs where the City forces you to pay a yearly fee to register your rental property?

Where they force you to allow a city inspector in every time a tenant moves in. Even if the tenant objects to the invasion of privacy.

Where if the inspection fails (due to not just legitimate health and safety issue but frivolous things like flaking exterior paint) you have to pay for a re-inspection each time until the property passes?

Where if you don't comply you can be fined thousands of dollars per day by the City?

The City of Richardson, TX does.

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Rob K.
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Rob K.
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We have inspections in most cities. Some are every two years and others are every three years. It is just a big revenue grab for the city.

Another thing is that they go on a fishing expedition looking for work that was done without a permit. How many times have you purchased a house with a newer furnace that was there when you purchased? Get ready to start paying for permits for work that you didn't do.

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