What do you think they are after? And how unrealistic is it of them to expect to know every inhabitant of each home, it changes with the dirction of the wind.
Dear Manager,
We are requesting a complete and current park registration list for your park. Please include make, model, and year of each home. In accordance with the Ohio Revised Code 4503.062, please ensure you prove the following information:
The name of the owner and all inhabitants of each home.
Indicate if the home is a rental
The permanent and temporary Post Office address of all inhabitants.
Please indicate on your park list if a lot is vacant and provide a current park map.
It is probably an update from the tax assessor’s office to use for assessing personal property taxes on the trailers. I’ve had the same information request before.
Greg, if you will pardon the impertinent question, you really don’t provide the names of each home’s (unit / home/ trailer / mobile) other inhabitants and their addresses to the county government do you? In other words, the owner and or tenant AND all others in each unit, like spouse, children, relatives, guests, etc.
You really only supply the owners name and address, right?
Have you ever read the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution? link below
Our Municipal Property Assessment Corporation collects the info under authority of the Government for taxation, Municipal and School Board elections and to determine population counts.
Secrecy is not an issue. The info they require is minimal - home owner name and names of all permanent occupants in the home as well as what they pay for rent and any other provided services.
Unless you are in a witness protection program there is no reason not to provide the info requested by a Government authorised entity. They also require all of my rental property income and expense info.
Fortunately for us in Canada we do not have the same level of concerns regarding secrecy as you have in the US.
Greg, Thank You for the info about Canada and how you view the local government’s authority to collect data and what you provide them.
I am not a lawyer so I sought out a competent legal professional many years ago to protect myself legally from the demands of government entities. That professionally licensed person explained the following United States Supreme Court case law decisions and how it relates to government entities information requirements to me very thoroughly. It was money well spent!
West v. Atkins, 487 U.S. 42, 49, 108 S.Ct. 2250, 2255, 101 L.Ed.2d 40(1988)
Scheuer v. Rhodes, 416 U.S. 232, 94 S.Ct. 1683,1687 (1974)
Lively discussion above!
I see some merit in both points. I too get a little nervous when they ask for all resident names, etc.
For the same reason, that on Frank’s advice sometime back, I declined giving a reporting agency more info on some people we had evicted…
Provide the local government with your income AND expenses by unit? How do you do that when some costs have to be written off over the whole park; rentals and resident owned, legal fees. Unfair if a competitor allocates differently. Sounds like planning for rent control.