[Durham INC] Tom Bonfield~ [pac2] Property Managers - how to find out about them?

[Lorisa]

Bill:
Actually the City's Neighborhood Improvement Services (Housing  
Inspections) has been working on their proposal for a Rental Registry  
for some time.  I think now is the time to support this idea.
Lorisa

On Sep 15, 2009, at 6:55 PM, TheOcean1 at aol.com wrote:

>
> Hold on, 3 years is a long time in Durham. Maybe our new city  
> manager likes the idea, perhaps Pensacola even had a similar  
> program. Or maybe he won't like the idea, but let's give him a  
> chance to tell us.
>
> Mr. Bonfield,
>
> What are your thoughts regarding property managers simply  
> registering with the city a list of the properties they manage?
>
> As pointed out below, community activists have been interested in  
> this for years, because of an occasional need to contact the  
> responsible party. But I would think city staff has a much more  
> regular need for the same information, surprised the request hasn't  
> been coming from them, instead of the community.
>
> Bill Anderson
> PAC2
>
> In a message dated 9/15/2009 1:26:56 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, kjj1 at duke.eduwrites 
> :
>
> Elizabeth--
> Good luck pushing this issue. It is nearly impossible to find out  
> who manages properties. It strikes me as odd in this age of  
> databases & ease of making information widely available, that  
> something as simple as requiring property managers to submit an  
> excel spreadsheet listing all the properties they manage to a  
> central clearinghouse where it could be made available to the public  
> is a big deal. But it seems to be. Property managers resist it and  
> the city seems to go along with them.
>
> It was last pushed hard 3-4 years ago. There is always a great deal  
> of interest from neighborhood associations and citizens and a fair  
> amount of resistance from property managers and city officials.
>
> Kelly Jarrett
>
> Steve Graff wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Elizabeth,
>>
>>
>> This is one of the biggest struggles, finding out who to contact  
>> about problems with a property in the neighborhood. As you have  
>> discovered, the Durham GIS system only lists the name and address  
>> for the property owner (no phone number), but no information for  
>> the property management company. Often times, the owner is in  
>> another state entirely, and the address listed is a P.O. box.
>>
>> Sometimes with the name and address you can use a search engine  
>> such as Google to try to find additional information for the  
>> owners. Other times, this information is not available.
>>
>> As an example, there is a four-plex apartment building just down  
>> the street from us. About a year ago it was purchased and renovated  
>> by the new owners, including replacing all of the windows. I was  
>> glad to see this happen as this apartment building was the scene of  
>> a shooting a few years ago.
>>
>> Everythi ng seemed to be going well up until recently. Then tenants  
>> started to play loud music at all time of day and night. Then they  
>> started throwing their trash into the ravine next to the building.  
>> Then we started to hear loud arguments. Then we started to hear  
>> glass bottles being broken on the ground. Then I started to see  
>> drug deals occurring there. Then one of the residents started  
>> speeding up and and down the street at 60+ mph endangering the  
>> residents who walk up and down this street (where there are no  
>> sidewalks).
>>
>> There was a big thread on various PAC mailing lists about the need  
>> for a property registry sometime earlier this year. The need is  
>> clear. There needs to be some way to contact property managers to  
>> notify them to concerns about their property, so that they can take  
>> appropriate action before bad renters trash their property and  
>> continue to continue to trash the neighborhood.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Steve Graff
>> President
>> Old North Durham Neighborhood Association
>> http://www.oldnorthdurham.com/
>>
>> slgraff at gmail.com
>>
>> On Sep 15, 2009, at 10:37 AM, elizabeth_gill99 wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> Walltown is reactivating Neighborhood Watch, we are starting with  
>>> a few blocks with the hope of growing. Question: we know how to  
>>> find out who owns properties on the City web site, but is there a  
>>> easy way to find out who manages them? I don't mind contacting  
>>> delinquent owners but would love to contact the property managers  
>>> too.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Elizabeth K. Gill
>>>
>>>
>>
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