We need your help to contact the Mayor to lower the current landlord permit fee! Let your voice be heard by sending in a letter requesting a decrease.
The City’s Community Development Committee (CDC) recommends lowering the Landlord Permit Price to $118 over the course of three years. According to the 2015 independent fee study that the City commissioned, the cost per permit is only $112.71. Many of the commissioners acknowledged the fee was too high and burdensome at the September 17th, 2015 City Commission meeting. However the commissioners did not want to approve the CDC’s recommendation to reduce the Landlord Permit fee because the timing was too tight. The FY 2016 budget hearing was that same night and they recommended re-evaluating for FY 2017.
The landlord permit fee is an unfair burden on our landlords. The landlord permit fee went from $84 in 2006-2007 to $177 in 2007-2008 and the city has continued to raise the cost to the current price of $204.75. The services don’t match the fee making it unchecked taxation. Many homeowners are renting their homes because they are upside down on their mortgages and therefore cannot sell. Lowering this fee would help underwater homeowners. Please click here to mail a letter in support of lowering the fee to the Mayor.