Category Archives: Blight

Landlord Won’t Fix It, Tenant Pays Reduced Rent (Rent Abatement Coming to Wausau?)

In what seems like a long time ago in a galaxy far far away, Mayor Tipple started a Housing Task Force, tasked to come up with ways to better address blight that was gaining ground in some of the City’s … Continue reading

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Pros and Cons of Rental Licensing in Wausau

  Another week has gone by, and it has been a pretty good one.  Although the Woodchucks dropped a couple of games early in the week (as well as having a bench-clearing brawl inWisconsin Rapids, which there truly is no … Continue reading

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Starting an East Side Neighborhood Group

After a very stressful end of the week, the weekend helped regain some of my sanity.  On Saturday, for the first time ever, I used my workshop that I have been building for the past few years as a real … Continue reading

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Defining Blight – Thoughts of Wausau Landlords

HAPPY NEW YEARS!! It will be the last Dr Rent Radio Show of the year.  I have not really had any questions come up in the last week, so the show will be our main topic of taxes and landlords.  … Continue reading

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Federal Building Apartment Thoughts (Rob from the Poor – Give to the Middle Class)

On Tuesday, December 14th, 2010 the Wausau City Council as a whole officially took up the issue of accepting the proposal for the Federal Building submitted by Metro Plains. (Metro Plans is the same Minnesota developer that has been approved … Continue reading

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Should It Be My Fine – If It is Not My Violation???

An article covered by WAOW (TV Channel 9) on Friday, December 3rd demonstrates the need for some changes in ordinances in Wausau. One of the most common things heard during the three hearings the Wausau Housing Task Force had was … Continue reading

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Thumbs Up to Wausau PD, Down to Fed Bldg, and Dr. Rent got an Eviction Notice of his own…

It has been a good week for the Dr… I only was able to attend one Badger game this year, but it was a good one. I took my sister, my nephew, and a good friend down to Camp Randall … Continue reading

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Learning about Laws – Learning about Blight

Is it really Thursday already? Well, that means that I will be at the radio studio after work for another installment of the Dr. Rent Radio show, which can be heard Thursdays from 5 to 6 PM on 93.3 FM, … Continue reading

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Wausau's Housing Task Force – After the Hearings…

Last night was the last of the three listening sessions for Wausau’s Housing Task Force. Now the real work begins. Later this week or early next week, there will be a very long blog post coming. I attended all three … Continue reading

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Have YOUR Voice Heard on Wausau's Housing Issues!!!!

As of 6:35 tonight, it is officially summer. For some, summer started with the Memorial Day weekend, for others, summer will start later this month based date and time of the solstice. But for me, summer starts in the 4th … Continue reading

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