Here's a news flash:
"DeKalb County is encouraging state lawmakers to allow rental registries to enable local governments to maintain lists of properties and their owners."
DeKalb's CEO piles on with:
"many code violations occur at rental properties, but it’s difficult to enforce municipal codes when the county doesn’t know who the property owner is"
Wow. Let's see. Maybe the property owner is the one listed on the title. Maybe? Or, could it be who you, DeKalb County, sends the property tax bill to. You do send out a property tax bill, don't you? And if it doesn't get paid, then you auction the property, right? And don't you know then who owns the property?
Whether it is a rental property or not, a code violation is a code violation and it should be addressed as such. Hard stop. And you know who to contact about it because you know where you send the property tax bill. Even if the property is mortgaged, you know who owns.
So what is this really all about?
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