Landlords: Why Detroit's Proposed Rental Rules Are Not What They Seem - Part 1

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The City of Detroit is having a hearing about the City Council's new proposal. The hearing date will be announced in September. Detroit has some of the toughest rental regulations in the country. We are required to do a Lead Inspection Risk Assessment (LIRA) that costs us $450-$500. We also need to have a $195 city inspection. If we have Section 8, we bypass those two tests and send in our passed inspection form and get a Certificate of Compliance for a processing fee of something like $73. The new fee structure being proposed is $150/year.

Our certifications are good for three years and will remain good for three years if the proposal passes. So a non Section 8 house costs $500 (lead) + $195 (city test) + $73 (processing) = $768 and it's good for 3 years or you could say it's $256/year.

For a Section 8 house my cost is $73 for three years or $24/year.

Detroit is trying to get more of us in compliance so they are changing up how they are doing it but it really doesn't make sense. For instance, they are saying no more LIRA test. They will reduce it to a dust swipe test. That means they take a certain kind of wipe and wipe around windows that cause lead dust. They would take soil samples outside. They send those tubes in to be tested. That all costs MORE money. Yet, they want to take the whole test price down from $195 for three years to $150 per year. Even if the new yearly fee will cover the extra expenses, there are also the expenses of the inspectors being certified to do the wipe tests. And doing the wipe tests without the rest of the LIRA tests has been tried in Grand Rapids and Flint only to be stopped later because one test isn't even good without the other.

In Part 2 I will cover the rest of the proposed rules: The new fees, putting liens on our houses for past unpaid fees, the revamped escrow program, how they want us to advertise, and my idea of how they can get more of us in compliance.

For more details about the proposed changes, I summarize them in my blog:
www.greatdaypropertymanagement.com/moniques-blog/2024/8/22/new-detroit-rental-inspection-rules-you-need-to-know

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0:00 Intro
2:05 BSEED -- My theory why they are proposing the changes
3:52 No more Lead Inspection Risk Assessment required
8:00 Will need LIRA if lead infected person rents
8:39 Current requirements for Section 8 rentals
9:11 My take

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