Data Mining

Let’s compare the rental registration and inspection program with what the federallys are doing, data mining phone records with out a warrant.  Wow! One sentence I nailed it.  What is the difference??  The city is forcing us to provide information about our tenant and forcing us to open up our tenant’s home for a warrantless search.  The difference, the federallies have been caught violating the 4th amendment and the city of Richardsondoes not see anything wrong with it.   

The following is a status on Wendy’s appeal to the Dallas Court of Appeals.  We found out that the Richardson prosecutor, Whit Wyatt, is filing a brief with the Dallas court of appeals.  This should be interesting to see how he justifies prosecuting Wendy for our tenant not allowing the inspectors into his home for an unwarranted inspection.  It should also be interesting how the city justifies the inspector lying on the stand about the correspondence surrounding the November 29^th failure to make the property available for inspections ‘court charge’, especially when we did not know they wanted to inspect the tenant’s home that day.

My City Is Gone

Richardson Texaswas the telecom corridor of the USA.  How did we go from the telecom corridor to inner city??  Will we resign to affordable housing?? 

 

What will attract long term business to our city??  We have to attract investors.  I guarantee inspecting rentals will not attract investors whether you're living in a rental or leasing one.

20 Years Ago

20 years ago we didn't need the city walking up to a neighbor and telling him that one of his cars was parked on an unauthorized portion of HIS yard.
 
20 years ago we didn't see a car with the city logo driving through the alleys and along the streets looking for citations to write.
 
20 years ago we didn’t have an iPhone app to make it easier for the city government to report citizens.
 
20 years ago we didn't have to have the city inspect our neighbor's home to be sure he knows he is living in a safe and healthy home.
 
20 years ago we didn't have a city forcing landlords to open the home of a Residential tenant to be sure it is safe for the tenant to live in.
 
Is this what it takes to run a city now?? Is this what it takes to keep a city safe and healthy??
 
Laura Maczka says that the majority of landlords comply with ordinance 3847 and don't have a problem with the city inspecting their tenants home. Ms. Maczka, did you know that the ordinance has a threat of a $2000 dollar fine if the landlord doesn't comply with the ordinance?? Remove the bullyin' tactic of a $2000 dollar fine and let's see how many landlords register and allow the government to come into their private property.

 

Our city manager on Rental Inspecitons: 

 

Dallas Morning News and Rental Inspections

I'm not subscribing to the Dallas morning news to comment on one of their stories.  Here's the story

http://d-news.co/kihmD

and here's my comment:

The city threatens and bullies its citizens with a $2000 fine if the landlord does not open the tenant’s home for an inspection.  This was not unintended.  The landlords were taken to court because the tenant denied the government unwarranted access to their home.  The city of Richardson was forcing the landlord to open the tenant’s home.  If no one thinks this is a violation of our constitutional rights, then you’re not paying attention.

 

There is no difference between a landlord and a tenant when it comes to the ability to determine whether a home is safe or not.  A tenant is capable of assessing whether the home is safe to rent.  If it is not safe to rent, the tenant will not lease it.  What part of invasion of privacy don’t we get??  If it wasn’t for the $2000 fine, we’d see how many landlords would allow inspections.  But not for the $2000 dollar fine…..

 

Amir Omar was the only one on the city council that fought to allow the citizen’s of Richardsonan opportunity to elect our Mayor.  The first time in history the folks of Richardsonare allowed to elect their Mayor. 

 

If it was left up to Laura Maczka we would not be electing our Mayor on May 11^th 2013.