DMN Story on Richardson Rental Home Ordinance and the View of a an Apparent Liberal

 

DMN present some facts and figures on the Richardson Rental ordinance. Richardson has about 2700 registered rental home and city officials have performed 1,022 inspections. You might wonder how many homes have failed the inspection and if you look for that answer one line down you will find that ONE home has failed the inspection. Those two numbers indicate to me that the residential rental home inspection is a solution looking for a problem. If so, it has not found a problem yet.

In trying to save face it seems the council will make the changes because it thought it might need a review. It is just pure coincidence that one of the first cases has been appealed and at the city’s urging, the case has been dropped because they were prosecuting Wendy Moore of a crime that does not exist. Richardson prosecuted her for not making the home available for inspection when the truth of the matter is that the tenant is the one who needs to make the property available for inspection.

The 4^th amendment provides protection from the government unreasonable searches. Even centuries ago government power was a threat to individuals. From my point of view the constitution and amendment don’t give people rights but rather provide limits for what the government can do. The more you read about history the more you find out as more time goes by, the same problems exist about where government power end and citizens right begin. It seems some people prefer a government with few limitations; mostly it seems these people are more liberal and want to enlist the government to do their bidding and want government to enforce rules of the liberals in how the rest of society should behave. Here is a good example of that:

“If a renter declines a free inspection of the house he or she is planning to spend an awful lot of time in, and a health or safety violation exists, it's his life at risk (and possibly his children, which would be a tragedy -- that's my only hesitation in supporting this change). So be it. Don't force it. There is no reasoning with an empty-headed animal food-trough wiper. His mother was a hamster, and his father smelt of elderberries!”

Spoken like a good and true liberal. Only the government knows best, the people are too dumb to know what to do on their own. So for those that don’t want to handover their 4^th amendment rights just because the Richardson government thinks it may know best, you will now be thought of as empty-headed food-trough wiper? And btw, your mama was a hamster and your daddy was something else.


Something else to consider, the genesis of this ordinance was a backdoor way to deal with too many people living in a house. A clue to that was in last Monday night's presentation by Don Magner. He noted that with the exterior inspection they could still peek in windows to make sure there were not too many beds in a room. That was also where the parking ordinance originated. Back doors and underhanded behavior.