Legislative Victories

Mandatory Rental Registration:

• In 2018 emphasis was placed on reducing evictions filed in Franklin County.
• The City of Columbus proposed requiring all rental units to register with the City and pay a fee of $25-50 per unit and undergo inspection prior to re-renting the unit.
  • The fee and time involved would have been an enormous cost to rental property owners and inconvenienced potential renters.
• CAA was able to prevent this legislation from being introduced.
• CAA members own about 150,000 apartments. A $50 per unit fee would have cost the industry $7.5 million dollars a year.

Retaliatory Evictions:

• The City of Columbus proposed changing the retaliatory eviction ordinance that would allow more renters to claim an eviction was retaliatory. 
• The proposed ordinance increased penalties and would have prevented an owner from evicting a tenant for any reason for 6 months after a finding that an owner filed a retaliatory eviction.
• CAA worked with City Council and the City Attorney to re-draft the ordinance so it would not conflict with state law and was fair to both the resident and the owner.

​Sub Metering:

• The Ohio General Assembly introduced several bills to regulate sub metering of utilities.
  • ​One version could have prevented sub metering, another would have classified owners that sub meter utilities and subjected owners to costly regulatory requirements.
• The Ohio Apartment Association and other collaborators were successful in keeping these bills from becoming law.

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