Unnamed person Unproven Post on Bohannon Conflict

July 21, 2017

“To All Members of the Middletown Real Estate Investors Group:

Like us, some of you may have started to receive bills for background checks you have processed through Selection.com. We checked into it and found out that the $5,000.00 startup funds that the City of Middletown gave to get this program going back in 2015 has been used up. Therefore, we must now start paying the $9 processing fee for each report. The $9 report is for the Combined Report only (SMS622-Tenant). It does not include the Individual Reports. If you chose to process any of the Individual Reports, there will be additional fees.

We encourage you to continue to use Selection.com to protect yourself from issues with the City of Middletown's nuisance ordinance and to help you reduce the number of evictions you need to deal with.

If you have questions, let us know!"

Steve Bohannon
MREIG President
513-464-0464

Honestly this seems more of a problem concerning admin procedures
Bohannon and other landlords probably should have been notified of the funds’ depletion and billed appropriately.
The landlords obviously kept doing what they had been doing and assumed it was all still covered and approved.

Agree?
Disagree?

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If the funding was depleted, why did admin keep paying the bill instead of passing the invoice off to the users?
Was the service informed to discontinue billing the city, and instead bill the users?
Seems like sloppy handling all around

OK--city FRONTED Selection.com $5,000 for backround checks for Bohannon, ALL landlords, or only those in this loose "organization"?
Didn't we all know something like that was going to happen after the publicity from the JJ landlord/adkins/police meetings?

Was Bohannon the only landlord to use the OFFERED AND TAXPAYER FUNDED service?

Was there usage AFTER the funding was depleted?
And if so, who was billed and who paid the bill?

Honestly not trying to be dense, though amazed at how disorganized all of this seems from the outside

Mr Beagle

spider:

Got a Community Foundation flyer in the mail today. Read the info and they had a segment in there about the success of the downtown area. Nothing but flowery embellishment on the "growth" down there. Referred to the downtown area as a "ghost town" years ago. Said they got rid of the (their words) "greasy spoon restaurants" and brought in culture, Cincy State and talked about the successes of the DMI. They also mentioned MMF as a contributory agent for downtown. Didn't go into specifics on how this all worked of course. Also no mention that what is offered in their downtown attracts less than 10% of the Middletown population. Guess as long as the small contingent of "culture" types show up, the rest of the people don't matter.

Of course, there was a long list of "Diamond", "Platinum", "Gold", "Silver", "Bronze", and "Friends" contributors with pictures and a list of scholarship award winners.

Oh, and yes, so as not to disappoint, an envelope was included just in case we wanted to contribute to their cause. Yeah, right.

Last I heard, Larry Mulligan is a player in MMF. Ken Cohen plays a key role as well.

How about it Mr. Adkins. What are we going to do about this little issue? Where did you go as to responding here? The people are owed an explanation aren't they?