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# Open Letter to LA City Hall: Privacy is a Right … Is Anyone Listening?
January 12 2017
Written by Carol Kapp.
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VOICES--Thank you for your service to us the citizens of LA.
I am a long time resident and Landlord (one rental unit as I live in the upper) who has annually, without fail, registered my one rental unit and paid the fee which for me is $67.83. In reading and filling out the papers for the 2017 HCIDLA, I was shocked and disillusioned to find out that The City Council and the Mayor has come up with a requirement that Landlords must not only pay a fee for each unit but they must fill out Form RR 17 U Annual Rent Registry Form which you should be familiar with as you may have voted for it.
The form requires Landlords to reveal private information that should only be between the Landlord and the tenant. Now this information will be put on the internet for anyone to put in an address and get the amount of rent, utilities by the way Water was not on the form and I do pay for the water and garbage fees. The form also asks about parking included in the rent collected.
This is an invasion of privacy between the landlord and the tenant. The form wants the year the tenant began tenancy. No ONE should be able to know these things!!!!!!! A Rental Agreement is a private contract between the Landlord and the tenant-----no one else should be privy to this information. This will pit neighbor against neighbor.
What about my rights? The tenant knows what he is paying. No one else should.
The issue of Short Term Rentals in this community has caused so much turmoil that people are no longer speaking to each other as a result. I can not imagine imagine what looms ahead if this ill thought out requirement is allowed to continue. DO NOT put this out for public perusal and ultimately causing untold problems in all communitiesin LA.
Shame on the City for Blindsiding the good Landlords without contacting us with letters explaining the whys and wherefores of this requirement. IT is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG, WRONG.
I filled out the form as I want the legal right to collect rent and provide housing in LA.
**I am against it and want this discontinued now.**
Shame on you all for not listening to the Apartment Owners Association during the period that this was being discussed. I guess that none of you on council own rental property. Think about how you would feel if your private financial agreements were posted on the internet?
Please let me know what is the reasoning for this invasion of my … and my tenants … privacy?
*(Carol Kapp is a duplex owner living in Playa del Rey.)*
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