INITIATIVE PETITION

To the Secretary of State, Attorney General of Ohio and the 129th General Assembly: Amendment Pursuant to Ohio Revised Code 5321, section 5321.04 and 5321.07 the undersigned electors of the State of Ohio, numbering in excess of one thousand, hereby submit to each of you the full text of Ohio Revised Code section 5321.04,

To Whom It May Concern:

My Name is Erica Brown, I am 23 yrs old and a single parent if an infant boy, and I’m writing this letter to give notice of leaving the premises at 5119 Hawaiian Terrace #4 as of June 3rd, 2015.

My tenants’ rights and civil rights of pursuit of happiness has been violated by you and your staff’s unfair and ill willed practices. As a landlord you are to provide a safe and proper environment, and you have not provided either service.

I am a single mother of an infant and I do not have Section 8. I am paying market rent. I have been living on the property for only two months and within the first week of living in the unit I noticed my lights are on in my apartment in the evenings from coming home from work to find items were missing.

My son’s safety and my safety are at risk. When I reported the problem to the front office they didn’t seem to care and then wanted to pay for another door knob. After other tenants made complaints of theft then the building had to get a new entrance code.

After a couple of days I started having bed-bugs appearances in the hallway of the building so I had someone come to spray a pesticide at the door threshold and the frame on the outside of my unit, but after a few weeks of various treatments and methods, the problem grew worse, I have pictures the bugs were coming in through electrical outlets and from around the baseboards.

I also have a lung condition which makes it unbearable to be around pesticides. When I took my problem to the rental office the manager informed me that they were aware of the problem for months prior to me and my infant son moving into apartment and knew about this situation for some time.

After I and my son had suffered scaring from bites on his face and arms I have been forced to move.

Due to the deplorable conditions of your property not being a safe nor healthy environment, I am requesting the return my deposit so that I may use the money to find another suitable place to live for my infant child.

Thank you,

Erica Brown

SUMMARY

Pursuant to Ohio Revised Code section 5321.04

To protect potential residents and applicants from moving into a “dwelling” as described in Ohio Revised Code section 5321.01(7) or onto the “residential premises” as described in Ohio Revised Code section 5321.01(C) is located that is currently infested with bedbugs.

To protect potential and applicants from entering into leases, or any contractual agreements with any landlords, landlords’ representatives such as caretakers, managers and agents representing landlords’ properties if one of the following; apartments, buildings that houses apartments, single units, houses, mobile homes campers, hotels, motels, prisons and all other residential living spaces is current with a bedbug infestation.

To protect tenants and their families or other residents living in one of the following; apartments, buildings that houses apartments, single units, houses, mobile homes campers, hotels, motels, prisons and all other residential living spaces from living with bedbug infestations.

To protect tenants and their families or other residents from any landlords, landlords’ representatives such as caretakers, managers and agents representing landlords’ properties from false statements and representation of environmentally safe, environmentally healthy living spaces.

Disallow all landlords, landlords’ representatives such as caretakers, managers and agents representing landlords’ properties from viewing, showing of any model apartments to potential tenants or residents and applicants if any one single unit on or in the adjacent properties or buildings has bedbugs.

Disallow all landlords, landlords’ representatives such as caretakers, managers and agents representing landlords’ properties from leasing, renting or provide shelter in any apartments, buildings that houses apartments, single units, houses, mobile homes campers, hotels, motels to applicants if any one single unit on or in the adjacent properties or buildings has bedbugs.

Enforces all landlords, landlords’ representatives such as caretakers, managers and agents representing landlords’ properties that current rents, leases, or donates residential living spaces to inform all current dwellers, tenants and residents of any bedbug sightings in public posting in bold print on rental property writing.

Disclosure of bedbug knowledge of bedbug sightings and infestations in or on residential premises by the landlords, landlords’ representatives such as caretakers, managers and agents representing landlords’ properties to any tenants or applicants is enforced by law.

The tenants upon being informed of bedbug sightings or infestation which is a violation of the Ohio Revised Code 5321.04(1) and 5321.04(3), shall have the right to leave with a thirty day notice to vacate residential premises, without any legal retaliation from any landlords, landlords’ representatives such as caretakers, managers and agents representing landlords’ properties.

The tenants after property or properties has been destroyed due to bedbug infestation which is a violation of the Ohio Revised Code 5321.04(1) and 5321.04(3), shall have the right to leave with an one day to thirty day notice to vacate residential premises, and seek compensation to replace property Ohio Revised Code 3707.13 without any legal retaliation from any landlords, landlords’ representatives such as caretakers, managers and agents representing landlords’ properties.