Friday, November 2, 2012

Sadly, Mayor O'Brien and eleven Aldermen Voted for a $150 Rental Fee Per Apartment to be Paid by the Landlords When the original Proposal had Failed With a 5-4 Vote.

This action by the Common Council will lead to possible rental increases for the tenants, punish good landlords, discourage new investments in our town, and certainly will decrease values to all properties for single families including the multi families properties.

Forcing the property owners to execute a license agreement that forces them to agree be under the jurisdiction of the city's newly formed "Fair Rent Commission" and with the Mayor's spokesman Phil Sherwood warning the tenants that if your landlord attempts to raise your rents call the fair rent commission and file your complaint. Landlords will be facing a commission appointed and directed by Sherwood which I will leave to your imaginations.

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Posted by Frank Smith at 2.11.12

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

There is absolutely no way I am signing anything that implies that I will let my property fall under the jurisdiction of the rent commission. They can take my money. But they can't force me to sign that agreement.

November 2, 2012 at 12:03 PM
Anonymous said...

Very true frank. And this is due to that angry whack job who gave an embarrassingly arrogant speech about how he was going to take them out. Instead of listening to the mass group of people they fixated on that clown who let his emotions get to him.
Yelling and screaming is not needed in every case. This one cost us.

November 2, 2012 at 2:20 PM
Anonymous said...

I was told by one of the Alderman the council had been considering putting a cap on the number of units this tax would apply to. Some buildings have dozens of apartments and it makes sense to put a cap. But now they are not considering going back to put a cap on big buildings because of threats from the landlord from NY.
This change would help lots of tenants and I do not believe this socialist council will throw it all out but I had hoped they would at least consider making it less offensive.

November 2, 2012 at 3:44 PM
Anonymous said...

sad it is

November 2, 2012 at 4:42 PM
Anonymous said...

When this story broke in the news I had been considering purchasing a rental property that despite the fact that it was in New Britain, I was considering buying it anyway because it was priced right. As soon as I heard of this nonsense, I instructed my agent to look elsewhere because I am no longer interested in buying anything in New Britain no matter how good the price might be. You people are out of your ever loving minds.

November 2, 2012 at 11:36 PM
Anonymous said...

You'd be crazy to take a building in New Britain if they gave it to you free!

November 3, 2012 at 11:35 AM
Anonymous said...

We need to go back to the at large system of electing aldermen. Ever since the last Charter change, we have put really stupid people in as aldermen. Even some knowledgeable Democrats predicted this. Now,they are under the control of a socialist leaning DTC. If they do vote their own mind, they get dumped in the next election.

I don't think that they care but they will lose the payment of around $3,500 a year for their "services". They care about the money. We never should have started paying them. The BOE puts in as much time and are not paid, nor should they be.

Can we endure another year of an incompetent mayor. He had to hire Sherwood to tell him what to do! It was a bad choice. Ask anyone at City Hall. The mayor does not know anything! He never had a real job and no one knows about his educational background.

November 3, 2012 at 3:32 PM
Anonymous said...



We need to go back to the at large system of electing aldermen. Ever since the last Charter change, we have put really stupid people in as aldermen.....


That is why I call the council "DUMBBELLS, INC"

Of all the dems combined, there isn't enough brain power to even form one original idea--not even a bad one.

November 3, 2012 at 6:56 PM
Anonymous said...

Well said, Frank. I posted the below comment to Lou Salvio's letter to the Editor of the Herald, where he indicated the Council should consider impeachment of the Mayor, based partly on the way the $150 per unit Landlord Fee was rammed through. I doubt that many people saw the comment because I posted it several days after the letter appeared. It applies here as well:

I'm concerned about impeaching Mayor O'Brien. Would we then get Mayor Pro-Tempore Trueworthy as his replacement? We could be even worse off than we are now. Far better to use the next year to amass the votes to toss the Mayor and the majority leadership Council members out of office. Only then can the City begin to heal its financial and other wounds. I hope there will be several Democratic primary contests next year, as responsible residents come forward to serve their city. People in New Britain are just beginning to realize that municipal elections can affect their daily lives a lot more than Presidential or Congressional ones. November 2013 is just around the corner!

November 5, 2012 at 12:28 AM
Anonymous said...

Personally it might be the best thing that ever happened. Once the lawsuits come filing in and the rents go up and all this bad and negative media heats up..... It will be the nail in the coffin of the O'Brien/Sherwood fiasco.

The two stooges can starting packing their bags for other parts.

November 5, 2012 at 7:29 PM
Anonymous said...

Instead of hoping for a Democratic primary to elect a different anti business class warfare socialist, why not just vote for the candidates endorsed by the local Republican Party?

November 6, 2012 at 7:08 AM

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