I just hope the Village Business Man (You Know What) DOESN'T use his first amendment rhetoric and The Voice propaganda machine to turn this into a tenants' rights / greedy landlord issue, then close down the blog to find out who to target.

I hope The Business Man does have some of 'his own' economic perspectives posted here.
It is very nice that our own local State Senate legislative representative Jerry Hill, helped change this public policy. Building inspections, like commercial and school fire alarm and fire safety ones, are sometimes neglected. But they can be very important. Thank you Sen. Hill !

OK I have 2 requests, and I have 2 observations:

First observation: Economically, it is far more cost effective to inspect and repair these structural problems because of the larger cost of liability regarding property or human injury when the structures fail. Especially if one is injured.

Second observation: Simple public safety. What occurred was an attempt by property owners to use purposeful ignorance to claim they had no knowledge of a problem in the courts. Most cases it fails. Thus is became a necessity to require reasonable up to date inspections to be performed to minimize that legal strategy.

In order to have an "inhabitable" rental unit, it must be SAFE. if anything, this is COMMON SENSE. Anyone arguing otherwise is simply choosing to do so.

15% ? Hopefully the 15% that’s about to fall apart.

Trying to imagine how that works. “Well ma’am, I inspected 15% of the load bearing elements of the balcony. Just make sure nobody stands near the other 85% of the balcony. See you in 6 years.”