2009 September | Landlords of Linn County serving the Linn County Iowa area

Archive for September, 2009

Sep

New Residential Smoke Detector Requirements Delayed Six Months

Posted by: Bob Randklev | Comments (0)

Des Moines, IOWA — The State Fire Marshal is delaying the start date for the new residential smoke detector requirements. This October, all new construction homes were to be outfitted with dual sensor smoke detectors. However, due to lack of supply from manufacturers, this new requirement Read More→

Categories : Joe Kelly - Lobbyist

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Sep

Proposed Changes to 562a

Posted by: Bob Randklev | Comments (0)

The Central Iowa Apartment Alliance, CIAA, has notified me that they are planning on introducing some amendments to chapter 562A during the 2010 session of the legislature. Attached is a copy of their first draft. CIAA is interested to know what the Iowa Landlords Association and Read More→

Categories : Forum, Joe Kelly - Lobbyist

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Sep

Proposed Administrative Rules: Joe Kelly

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Here is an e-mail from Rita Gergely concerning proposed administrative rules, some of which may be of interest to some of the membership. If you have any comments or questions about these proposed rules, please contact Rita, whose contact information is listed below.

Joe Kelly

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Joe,
I believe that you were present when we discussed this during the legislative session. This has to do with extending the requirements of our Chapter 69 to child-occupied facilities, which does include some parts of schools. Per our discussions at that time, we have specifically stated that the notification to parents can be done by posting a sign (this addresses concerns of the Department of Education). At that time, we also discussed whether a notification to parents needed to be done for work done on school vacations, etc. We didn’t get much guidance from EPA on this issue, except that work done over a weekend couldn’t be exempt. Therefore, we have proposed that a notification to parents doesn’t need to be done if the work can be started and completed during a time when students are absent from the building for at least seven consecutive days. We welcome any comments on this issue, but I doubt that we can convince EPA that a period of less than 7 days is acceptable.

This also includes changes to Chapter 70 that will require landlords, maintenance crews, and contractors who work in target housing and child-occupied facilities to be trained and certified and to follow certain work practice standards when doing the work (landlords who have rental properties that are subsidized by HUD must already have this training). There isn’t a lot of flexibility in these requirements because they must Read More→

Categories : Joe Kelly - Lobbyist, News

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Sep

Do you have questions on buying/selling a rental property?

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Do you have questions? Specifics? Ask your question here and get feedback from members of the Landlords of Linn County

Categories : Forum

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Sep

Randy's Carpets

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Randy’s Carpets & Interiors has been in business since 1975. Our sales staff has the experience necessary to help with all your flooring needs and our installation crews are well trained experts in their craft. We are a full service flooring store. We carry all name brands of carpet, Read More→

Categories : Vendor Spotlight

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Sep

Needing to tow a car in CR?

Posted by: Bob Randklev | Comments (0)

Recently, there have been many changes with regards to the towing of cars within the Cedar Rapids city limits. As of July 1, 2009, the police department no longer has a towing contract and each landlord can “just do it on their own”, call a tow company and the tow Read More→

Categories : News

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