Concerns Over Rentals Aired

Absentee landlords frustrate neighborhoods...

The Chandler Arizona Republic reports that 80 Chandler residents attended the third Congress of Neighborhoods last Saturday, and they told government officials that they should be doing more to prevent rental homes from becoming eyesores and landlords from skirting taxes and fees.

They also stated that absentee landlords are a big problem, the ones who are rookies and are only concerned with flipping the homes for a profit when the time is right.

The city of Chandler is rewriting its property maintenance code and participants urged the city to produce a condensed version of the city property rules in simple language and offer incentives for tenants to identify themselves and their landlords. More...

Look for the state legislature to address new rental laws in their 2006 session.