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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vordiez talk about the speech last night. Do we
have to, Yeah, we have to. Let's just look at
what I think is maybe the best magic trick of all.
And I love a good magic trick everything from watching
David Copperfield specials and I was a kid to Sunday
Nights at Good Life Indian Creek when the Great Joe
(00:22):
Cole was out there going table to table doing magic
tricks and card tricks and stuff for the kids. I
love a good magic trick, and this is a really
good one. This is try to ignore the fact that
she's been the vice president under President Biden. Who's President Biden?
I don't know. They showed a whole video before Kamala
(00:42):
came to the stage talking about all of her great
accomplishments and everything she'd done. They didn't even show or
mention Joe Biden at all in that one at all.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Wait, wait, wait, before you move on, I'd give me
just one accomplishment.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
They said that they highlighted all of her I have them.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Well they talked about this, Yeah yeah, well, I mean
I have my accomplishments, but they know. They talked about
how she came from this and she became attorney general,
and then the vice president or senator, then the vice president. No,
I mean accomplishments in terms of being elected to stuff. Okay,
not actual thing. Didn't even mention Joe. No picture of
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Joe unless I missed it, unless I forgot no picture.
And then she came out thanked her husband and thanked
Joe Biden, and then it was on. That's the only
mention a President Biden in that long swath of this
keynote address at the Democratic National Convention, as Joe Biden
is the current Democrat President of the United States, or
(01:45):
did we forget? So the magic trick here is that
like she hasn't been a part of anything he's done
over the last three and a half years. So what
she wants you to believe is Trump is going to
take us down a real dark road, and we're not
going back.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
We are not going back.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
No, no, we're not going back. Where is that dark
road going to cost me less? Well, let's see here,
Let's look at the accomplishments, and let's look at at
where things were in the Trump administration versus the Biden
Harris administration since President Biden took office. The price of
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gasoline is up fifty one percent. The cost of electricity
is up thirty two percent. The cost of airfare is
up twenty three percent.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
We are not going back. We are not going back.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
The cost of rent is up twenty two percent. The
cost of groceries, including well groceries are up twenty two percent.
The cost of eggs, just eggs forty seven percent.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
We are not going back. We are not going back.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
The cost of food in schools, what had cost the schools,
which cost the taxpayers, is up sixty six percent. The
cost of car insurance is up fifty four percent.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
We are not going back. We are not going back.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
What the magic trick is. I haven't been a part
of any of this in the last three and a
half years since the great Joe Biden. We love Joe,
we love Joe, when a few weeks ago was he's
gotta go, He's gotta go. So we're gonna try and
make you think that we don't want to go back
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to the horrible Trump administration. Yeah, let's look at a
couple that's just cost. Let's look at a few other things.
Since President Biden and Kamala Harris took office, fifteen million
unvetted illegal immigrants have been allowed into our country. The
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Russia invaded Ukraine, which they did is in the Obama
Biden administration, and Hamas attacked Israel. Oh I should point
out Hamas attacked Israel right after the Biden Harris administration
un froze a bunch of financial assets for Israel or
(04:36):
for a pardoner Iran, which funds Hamas.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
We are not going back. We are not going back.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
We decided to withdraw our troops from Afghanistan and leave
behind scores of weapons, aircraft, tanks, and American soldiers, thirteen
of which include Omaha's Corporal Dacent Page died and this
horrible withdrawal, not to mention what happened to especially the
(05:08):
women of Afghanistan based on that absolutely disgusting fleeing of Afghanistan.
We also have record low test scores for KD through
twelve students based a lot in their COVID policies. By
the way, we got a new COVID nineteen vaccine that's
(05:31):
been allowed for the American people. Now there's another one coming.
Got to get two or three of those a day.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
We are not going back.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
We are not going back, and we're supposed to believe
that she had nothing to do with any of this,
if we just don't mention that she's been the vice
president to Joe Biden, one of the most unpopular presidents
in world history, if we just don't mention that she's
actually been there for three and a half years, like,
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we got to fix what's broken. You broke it, We're
paying for it, but we're not going back. And then
after spending the entire night, not the entire night, I
after spending a large part of last night's speech trashing
President Trump, which, as I talked about yesterday, isn't just
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trashing President Trump. It's trashing his supporters. It is absolutely
slandering and maligning people who have voted for him, will
vote for him under any circumstances in many instances, or
are considering voting for him. She thinks that Trump and
now has unchecked power based on what the Supreme Court said,
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that he can go in there and do anything he wants,
and he wants putin to do whatever the hell he wants.
And she said that Trump tried to cut Social Security
and Medicare. None of this is true. She said that
Trump tried to throw away your votes and then when
he failed, he sent a quote armed mob to the
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United States Capital where they assaulted law enforcement officers. Yes,
after President Trump said his supporters needed to peacefully and
patriotically make their voices heard. That is sending an armed
mob to the United States Capital, and he wants to
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set free violent extremists who assaulted those law enforcement officers
at the Capitol on January sixth. Meanwhile, there's protesters outside
who are not maga people who are out there fighting
with police officers every single night of the Democratic National
Convention in Chicago. It's the same anarchist mindset that is
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part of Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matters, and whatever
else we need to do to take ownership of private
and public property in cities across the country and burn
places like Governor Tim Walls Minneapolis to the ground. In
some instances, those aren't Trump people. They're not maga people.
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Who are all the people who have been arrested for
all of that antifab behavior over the last few years.
They haven't spent as much time behind bars as some
j sixers. Is that fair? And she said that his
explicit intent is to deploy active duty military against our
own citizens. There was a thought that perhaps he was
(08:31):
considering invoking the Insurrection Act during the protest of twenty
twenty in the wake of the murder of Floyd, and
he decided not to do it. But by all means,
Kamala Harris told the American people that Trump sent an
armed mob to the US capital, wants to set these
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armed violent extremists free, wants to deploy active duty military
against the American people. Can do that because the Supreme
Court told him he could do whatever he wants while
cutting Social Security, Medicare, and not caring when women die
who just want to have some reproductive freedom across this country.
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She didn't just say that about Trump last night. She
said that about anyone who's ever voted for him, wouldever
consider voting for him. She potentially was saying that about
you and your family, and then had the audacity, after
maligning and slandering half the people of this country.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
To say, I promise to be a president for all Americans.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
You can always trust me.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
That is my assessment of last night's speech. One of
the few stated policies we've heard from a potential Kamala
Harris administration. She vowed to take on corporate landlords and
cap unfair rent increases. Let's talk about this. We have
here the the President Executive director CZAR. Your title is president,
(10:06):
the president of the Metro Omaha Property Owners Association MAPOA.
That's Rick McDonald right there. President Rick McDonald, thanks a
lot for being here on eleven ten kfa B.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
You guys are doing a really cool fundraiser in just
a matter of days. We'll talk about that before we
get out of here. But first of all, tell me
about MAPOA. Who you guys are, who you represent, what
you do.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, we're a group of landlords that have investment property,
mostly small apartments, single family housing. We've been around since
nineteen forty nine and we have roughly about four hundred
members at any given time.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Do you guys just get together and complain about tenants
all the time or say our tenants think we're horrible
all the time.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Well, there's some of that that goes on, but for
the most part, we try to educate landlords in the
city of Omaha on the bills and the laws and
regulations and all the business goes in just like any business,
and we try to educate them.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Vice President Harris says that there are too many foreign
and corporate landlord types and not people like seemingly people
like you and those that you represent. You hear about
this a lot. There's a lot of foreign investors that
is buying a property across America and then running that out,
jacking up the rates in the process, and not exactly
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being real responsive to tenant's needs. Is this a problem
in America? And how big of a problem is it
here around Omaha?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Well, it is a problem in America. It's worse in
other states than it is, but it's coming to Omaha.
We've seen some of it already. She's right in certain
aspects where it's changed in the whole dynamics of rental property.
And I think it's going to become a big problem
with city omahaf they don't do something about it soon.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
How is this even possible where someone like from China
can buy up a home, rent it out and then
what do you do? You say, oh, I've got a
plumbing problem here, and they're like, well, we're in China,
so you know, good luck.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yeah. And some of these are even locally corporations in
the States, but they come in and they'll try and buy,
buy out an investor and buy all these properties at once,
or they may pick up a few here and a
few there and accumulate them over a couple of years.
But there's a definite problem between dealing with somebody like
myself that lives in Omaha, resides in Omaha, and then
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somebody you're trying to contact with them is in a
different state or if not a different country. It changes everything.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
How much of this is going on around Omaha and
what is the impact for renters? Because I know a
lot of people say that I used to be able
to rent this for you know, about this much, and
then someone else bought it and they jacked my monthly
rent up almost double to what I was paying, and
I can't get a hold of anyone because they're not
around here.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yeah, that's exactly right. We hear about that, it was
just here and there. It gets to be more and
more common. Heard a lot from tenants that say the
exact same, I have to move. They're looking at one
of my properties. New owner came in, increased the rent
by fifty percent. I can't afford that. I've got to
move a lot of these foreign investors or out of
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state investors will say they're completely rehabbing the property. A
lot of times, to them, rehabbing is new paint and carpet.
It's not a total rehab. But they're jacking up the prices,
and that affects us as individual owners, because well, we
can raise ours to them. That's what the market is.
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But I don't think the city or the state realizes
once we get enough of that in here, they start
to control the legislation, the ordinances in the city of
Omahon stuff because they have so much power.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yeah, it sounds like it's a problem. I don't know
that it's a problem the government should do anything about, though.
I mean, this is, after all, America. You can buy
whatever you want. You can set the price to whatever
you want. As if you're the landlord, you're the property owner.
Here's how much it costs. If people are spending that much,
that's how much it's worth. Is this something that government
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should do something about.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I don't know if the well, the government can do
some what they're suggesting is that they pass laws, or
if you're a property owner you have a corporation, you
have to have an office in the state of Nebraska
or in the city of Omaha, rather than trying to
deal with somebody across the strait across the United States.
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My thought on that is, how do you stop them?
How do you pass that law that says you can't
own property here. I think what they need to do
is reduce their regulations on the smaller ones like myself
and encourage us to buy more proper pretty to encourage
new people to come in and have rental property. Right now,
we see a decrease in that the smaller landlords are
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being driven out of the business. We're here, we're local,
We're concerned about the tenants the property in the city
of Omaha. These foreign people could care less.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
You hear a lot of this happening with agg producers
as well, same issue. So you're saying that maybe it'd
be a good idea to say, look, if you have
property in a community, you need to have an office
in that community. I'm guessing that for some of these,
especially foreign or corporate investors, the money really to have
an office in a community isn't all that much. They
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can afford to do that, but they're going to pass
the cost of that office or staff members for the office.
They're going to pass that, right along to the renters
as well. And so now something that's already costs more
is going to cost even more as a result of
some of these policies.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Right, and it always gets passed on to the tenant
each and every time. They're still going to be hard
to deal with the main person behind that corporation, even
if they have a local office. The guy calling the
shots lives someplace else. He doesn't know a tenant, he
doesn't see him, he doesn't deal with them, and his
whole issue is the bottom line, how much money is
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he going to make with us, our organization and the
tenants that I deal with, or excuse me, the landlords
I deal with. They're concerned about the tenant. They want
to keep the tenant, they want to make them happy,
they want to give them a reasonable rate, and they
want to do what's good for the city.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
That's Rick McDonald, president of Mapoa. The Metro Omaha Property
Owners Association Vice president Harris pushed an idea the other
day to limit rent hikes to five percent for two
years for landlords with over fifty units. The implication here
is that landlords potentially like you are the people that
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you deal with that this organization. Rick are just greedy
and they're jacking up the rates so they can line
their own pockets, and we as the government, need to
put a stop to all that money you're making.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah, we hear that a lot. I saw a survey
that came out several years ago that asks landlords how
much money do you plan to make on each individual property?
Is a specific amount? Is it a percentage? The most
common answer was between one or two hundred dollars a month. Now,
if you're going to control that, it doesn't take much
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to completely wipe that out. That's part of the reason
a lot of landlords are getting out of the business
and deciding this just isn't worth it. If she wants
to cap the rates at a certain percentage for two years,
we know the way government works, that's going to turn
into four years to six years and eventually end up permit. So.
(17:54):
I don't know if you heard Elizabeth Warren. She came
out and she actually proposed a bill that reduces all
rents by ten percent. Well, if I've got a property
that's fifteen hundred dollars rent and she reduces it by
ten percent, that's one hundred and fifty dollars a month.
My profit's all gone. There's no reason for me to
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do this, and that's going to create even a worse
housing shortage than we currently have.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Rent is up twenty two percent since the Biden and
Harris administration took over. Just as a point of reference
here in our country, why do you think that rent
has gone up twenty two percent in the last few years.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
The top two things are property tax and your insurance.
Locally here in Omaha, I don't see that it's gone
up by twenty two percent. It has gone up. We've
had a lot of years where it didn't go up
at all. But it's the cost of everything. Just to
give you an example, two years ago, I had to
have some concrete dug up a sewer line replaced. It
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was just a small section. It was eighteen hundred dollars.
Just a couple months ago, I had the exact same
thing in a different property. It costs four thousand dollars.
That's one hundred percent increase in two years. My rents
don't cover that. So the cost of everything is just outrageous.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Right now, your organization is doing a very interesting fundraiser
coming up this Wednesday. Tell me about this.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Yeah, we're doing a fundraiser. It's a two part fundraiser.
It's a shooting competition. We're going to determine who gets
the biggest percentage of the money that we raise is
split between the Omaha Police Department Foundation and the Douglas
County Sheriff Foundation. And we go out to eighty eight tactical.
Anybody that comes that wants to shoot, can't shoot. It's
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a competition. We do have a prize for them to
make it a little more interesting. We have a team
of six from Douglas County Sheriff and the Omaha Police Department.
They shoot against each other. Whoever shoots the best out
of those two groups, we'll get the higher percentage of
the money. After the shooting event, you don't have to
participate in that if you don't want to. We have
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a banquet at the Shriners Hall. There'll be a happy hour,
there's a tenderloin dinner. We'll give the prizes out to
the top shooters, will present the money to the first
responders that are there, and then we do have a
number of raffles that we're going to have. You can
purchase raffle tickets so last year it was a great event.
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This year should be even better.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
That's coming up this Wednesday, the shootout at eighty eight
Tactical the event and dinner at the Shriners after that
in the evening. Go to Mapoa dot com for all
the information and a register to either shoot to eat
or both. That's Mapoa dot com, MOPA metro Omaha Property
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Owners Association Mapoa dot com. Rick McDonald is the president
of this organization. That's going to be a lot of
fun on Wednesday. Thank you so much for what you
shared with us from your perspective here about some of
these ideas, the scant few political ideas we've had from
the Democratic nominee for the presidency. Rick, I appreciate your
conversation today. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Scott Voices Mornings nine to eleven, our News Radio eleven
ten KFAB
Scott Vordiez talk about the speech last night. Do we
have to, Yeah, we have to. Let's just look at
what I think is maybe the best magic trick of all.
And I love a good magic trick everything from watching
David Copperfield specials and I was a kid to Sunday
Nights at Good Life Indian Creek when the Great Joe
(00:22):
Cole was out there going table to table doing magic
tricks and card tricks and stuff for the kids. I
love a good magic trick, and this is a really
good one. This is try to ignore the fact that
she's been the vice president under President Biden. Who's President Biden?
I don't know. They showed a whole video before Kamala
(00:42):
came to the stage talking about all of her great
accomplishments and everything she'd done. They didn't even show or
mention Joe Biden at all in that one at all.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Wait, wait, wait, before you move on, I'd give me
just one accomplishment.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
They said that they highlighted all of her I have them.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Well they talked about this, Yeah yeah, well, I mean
I have my accomplishments, but they know. They talked about
how she came from this and she became attorney general,
and then the vice president or senator, then the vice president. No,
I mean accomplishments in terms of being elected to stuff. Okay,
not actual thing. Didn't even mention Joe. No picture of
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Joe unless I missed it, unless I forgot no picture.
And then she came out thanked her husband and thanked
Joe Biden, and then it was on. That's the only
mention a President Biden in that long swath of this
keynote address at the Democratic National Convention, as Joe Biden
is the current Democrat President of the United States, or
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did we forget? So the magic trick here is that
like she hasn't been a part of anything he's done
over the last three and a half years. So what
she wants you to believe is Trump is going to
take us down a real dark road, and we're not
going back.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
We are not going back.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
No, no, we're not going back. Where is that dark
road going to cost me less? Well, let's see here,
Let's look at the accomplishments, and let's look at at
where things were in the Trump administration versus the Biden
Harris administration since President Biden took office. The price of
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gasoline is up fifty one percent. The cost of electricity
is up thirty two percent. The cost of airfare is
up twenty three percent.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
We are not going back. We are not going back.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
The cost of rent is up twenty two percent. The
cost of groceries, including well groceries are up twenty two percent.
The cost of eggs, just eggs forty seven percent.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
We are not going back. We are not going back.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
The cost of food in schools, what had cost the schools,
which cost the taxpayers, is up sixty six percent. The
cost of car insurance is up fifty four percent.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
We are not going back. We are not going back.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
What the magic trick is. I haven't been a part
of any of this in the last three and a
half years since the great Joe Biden. We love Joe,
we love Joe, when a few weeks ago was he's
gotta go, He's gotta go. So we're gonna try and
make you think that we don't want to go back
(03:49):
to the horrible Trump administration. Yeah, let's look at a
couple that's just cost. Let's look at a few other things.
Since President Biden and Kamala Harris took office, fifteen million
unvetted illegal immigrants have been allowed into our country. The
(04:14):
Russia invaded Ukraine, which they did is in the Obama
Biden administration, and Hamas attacked Israel. Oh I should point
out Hamas attacked Israel right after the Biden Harris administration
un froze a bunch of financial assets for Israel or
(04:36):
for a pardoner Iran, which funds Hamas.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
We are not going back. We are not going back.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
We decided to withdraw our troops from Afghanistan and leave
behind scores of weapons, aircraft, tanks, and American soldiers, thirteen
of which include Omaha's Corporal Dacent Page died and this
horrible withdrawal, not to mention what happened to especially the
(05:08):
women of Afghanistan based on that absolutely disgusting fleeing of Afghanistan.
We also have record low test scores for KD through
twelve students based a lot in their COVID policies. By
the way, we got a new COVID nineteen vaccine that's
(05:31):
been allowed for the American people. Now there's another one coming.
Got to get two or three of those a day.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
We are not going back.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
We are not going back, and we're supposed to believe
that she had nothing to do with any of this,
if we just don't mention that she's been the vice
president to Joe Biden, one of the most unpopular presidents
in world history, if we just don't mention that she's
actually been there for three and a half years, like,
(06:00):
we got to fix what's broken. You broke it, We're
paying for it, but we're not going back. And then
after spending the entire night, not the entire night, I
after spending a large part of last night's speech trashing
President Trump, which, as I talked about yesterday, isn't just
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trashing President Trump. It's trashing his supporters. It is absolutely
slandering and maligning people who have voted for him, will
vote for him under any circumstances in many instances, or
are considering voting for him. She thinks that Trump and
now has unchecked power based on what the Supreme Court said,
(06:44):
that he can go in there and do anything he wants,
and he wants putin to do whatever the hell he wants.
And she said that Trump tried to cut Social Security
and Medicare. None of this is true. She said that
Trump tried to throw away your votes and then when
he failed, he sent a quote armed mob to the
(07:04):
United States Capital where they assaulted law enforcement officers. Yes,
after President Trump said his supporters needed to peacefully and
patriotically make their voices heard. That is sending an armed
mob to the United States Capital, and he wants to
(07:26):
set free violent extremists who assaulted those law enforcement officers
at the Capitol on January sixth. Meanwhile, there's protesters outside
who are not maga people who are out there fighting
with police officers every single night of the Democratic National
Convention in Chicago. It's the same anarchist mindset that is
(07:49):
part of Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matters, and whatever
else we need to do to take ownership of private
and public property in cities across the country and burn
places like Governor Tim Walls Minneapolis to the ground. In
some instances, those aren't Trump people. They're not maga people.
(08:09):
Who are all the people who have been arrested for
all of that antifab behavior over the last few years.
They haven't spent as much time behind bars as some
j sixers. Is that fair? And she said that his
explicit intent is to deploy active duty military against our
own citizens. There was a thought that perhaps he was
(08:31):
considering invoking the Insurrection Act during the protest of twenty
twenty in the wake of the murder of Floyd, and
he decided not to do it. But by all means,
Kamala Harris told the American people that Trump sent an
armed mob to the US capital, wants to set these
(08:53):
armed violent extremists free, wants to deploy active duty military
against the American people. Can do that because the Supreme
Court told him he could do whatever he wants while
cutting Social Security, Medicare, and not caring when women die
who just want to have some reproductive freedom across this country.
(09:14):
She didn't just say that about Trump last night. She
said that about anyone who's ever voted for him, wouldever
consider voting for him. She potentially was saying that about
you and your family, and then had the audacity, after
maligning and slandering half the people of this country.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
To say, I promise to be a president for all Americans.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
You can always trust me.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
That is my assessment of last night's speech. One of
the few stated policies we've heard from a potential Kamala
Harris administration. She vowed to take on corporate landlords and
cap unfair rent increases. Let's talk about this. We have
here the the President Executive director CZAR. Your title is president,
(10:06):
the president of the Metro Omaha Property Owners Association MAPOA.
That's Rick McDonald right there. President Rick McDonald, thanks a
lot for being here on eleven ten kfa B.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
You guys are doing a really cool fundraiser in just
a matter of days. We'll talk about that before we
get out of here. But first of all, tell me
about MAPOA. Who you guys are, who you represent, what
you do.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, we're a group of landlords that have investment property,
mostly small apartments, single family housing. We've been around since
nineteen forty nine and we have roughly about four hundred
members at any given time.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Do you guys just get together and complain about tenants
all the time or say our tenants think we're horrible
all the time.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Well, there's some of that that goes on, but for
the most part, we try to educate landlords in the
city of Omaha on the bills and the laws and
regulations and all the business goes in just like any business,
and we try to educate them.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Vice President Harris says that there are too many foreign
and corporate landlord types and not people like seemingly people
like you and those that you represent. You hear about
this a lot. There's a lot of foreign investors that
is buying a property across America and then running that out,
jacking up the rates in the process, and not exactly
(11:24):
being real responsive to tenant's needs. Is this a problem
in America? And how big of a problem is it
here around Omaha?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Well, it is a problem in America. It's worse in
other states than it is, but it's coming to Omaha.
We've seen some of it already. She's right in certain
aspects where it's changed in the whole dynamics of rental property.
And I think it's going to become a big problem
with city omahaf they don't do something about it soon.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
How is this even possible where someone like from China
can buy up a home, rent it out and then
what do you do? You say, oh, I've got a
plumbing problem here, and they're like, well, we're in China,
so you know, good luck.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yeah. And some of these are even locally corporations in
the States, but they come in and they'll try and buy,
buy out an investor and buy all these properties at once,
or they may pick up a few here and a
few there and accumulate them over a couple of years.
But there's a definite problem between dealing with somebody like
myself that lives in Omaha, resides in Omaha, and then
(12:32):
somebody you're trying to contact with them is in a
different state or if not a different country. It changes everything.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
How much of this is going on around Omaha and
what is the impact for renters? Because I know a
lot of people say that I used to be able
to rent this for you know, about this much, and
then someone else bought it and they jacked my monthly
rent up almost double to what I was paying, and
I can't get a hold of anyone because they're not
around here.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yeah, that's exactly right. We hear about that, it was
just here and there. It gets to be more and
more common. Heard a lot from tenants that say the
exact same, I have to move. They're looking at one
of my properties. New owner came in, increased the rent
by fifty percent. I can't afford that. I've got to
move a lot of these foreign investors or out of
(13:23):
state investors will say they're completely rehabbing the property. A
lot of times, to them, rehabbing is new paint and carpet.
It's not a total rehab. But they're jacking up the prices,
and that affects us as individual owners, because well, we
can raise ours to them. That's what the market is.
(13:43):
But I don't think the city or the state realizes
once we get enough of that in here, they start
to control the legislation, the ordinances in the city of
Omahon stuff because they have so much power.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yeah, it sounds like it's a problem. I don't know
that it's a problem the government should do anything about, though.
I mean, this is, after all, America. You can buy
whatever you want. You can set the price to whatever
you want. As if you're the landlord, you're the property owner.
Here's how much it costs. If people are spending that much,
that's how much it's worth. Is this something that government
(14:20):
should do something about.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I don't know if the well, the government can do
some what they're suggesting is that they pass laws, or
if you're a property owner you have a corporation, you
have to have an office in the state of Nebraska
or in the city of Omaha, rather than trying to
deal with somebody across the strait across the United States.
(14:45):
My thought on that is, how do you stop them?
How do you pass that law that says you can't
own property here. I think what they need to do
is reduce their regulations on the smaller ones like myself
and encourage us to buy more proper pretty to encourage
new people to come in and have rental property. Right now,
we see a decrease in that the smaller landlords are
(15:08):
being driven out of the business. We're here, we're local,
We're concerned about the tenants the property in the city
of Omaha. These foreign people could care less.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
You hear a lot of this happening with agg producers
as well, same issue. So you're saying that maybe it'd
be a good idea to say, look, if you have
property in a community, you need to have an office
in that community. I'm guessing that for some of these,
especially foreign or corporate investors, the money really to have
an office in a community isn't all that much. They
(15:41):
can afford to do that, but they're going to pass
the cost of that office or staff members for the office.
They're going to pass that, right along to the renters
as well. And so now something that's already costs more
is going to cost even more as a result of
some of these policies.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Right, and it always gets passed on to the tenant
each and every time. They're still going to be hard
to deal with the main person behind that corporation, even
if they have a local office. The guy calling the
shots lives someplace else. He doesn't know a tenant, he
doesn't see him, he doesn't deal with them, and his
whole issue is the bottom line, how much money is
(16:18):
he going to make with us, our organization and the
tenants that I deal with, or excuse me, the landlords
I deal with. They're concerned about the tenant. They want
to keep the tenant, they want to make them happy,
they want to give them a reasonable rate, and they
want to do what's good for the city.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
That's Rick McDonald, president of Mapoa. The Metro Omaha Property
Owners Association Vice president Harris pushed an idea the other
day to limit rent hikes to five percent for two
years for landlords with over fifty units. The implication here
is that landlords potentially like you are the people that
(16:59):
you deal with that this organization. Rick are just greedy
and they're jacking up the rates so they can line
their own pockets, and we as the government, need to
put a stop to all that money you're making.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Yeah, we hear that a lot. I saw a survey
that came out several years ago that asks landlords how
much money do you plan to make on each individual property?
Is a specific amount? Is it a percentage? The most
common answer was between one or two hundred dollars a month. Now,
if you're going to control that, it doesn't take much
(17:32):
to completely wipe that out. That's part of the reason
a lot of landlords are getting out of the business
and deciding this just isn't worth it. If she wants
to cap the rates at a certain percentage for two years,
we know the way government works, that's going to turn
into four years to six years and eventually end up permit. So.
(17:54):
I don't know if you heard Elizabeth Warren. She came
out and she actually proposed a bill that reduces all
rents by ten percent. Well, if I've got a property
that's fifteen hundred dollars rent and she reduces it by
ten percent, that's one hundred and fifty dollars a month.
My profit's all gone. There's no reason for me to
(18:14):
do this, and that's going to create even a worse
housing shortage than we currently have.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Rent is up twenty two percent since the Biden and
Harris administration took over. Just as a point of reference
here in our country, why do you think that rent
has gone up twenty two percent in the last few years.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
The top two things are property tax and your insurance.
Locally here in Omaha, I don't see that it's gone
up by twenty two percent. It has gone up. We've
had a lot of years where it didn't go up
at all. But it's the cost of everything. Just to
give you an example, two years ago, I had to
have some concrete dug up a sewer line replaced. It
(18:56):
was just a small section. It was eighteen hundred dollars.
Just a couple months ago, I had the exact same
thing in a different property. It costs four thousand dollars.
That's one hundred percent increase in two years. My rents
don't cover that. So the cost of everything is just outrageous.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Right now, your organization is doing a very interesting fundraiser
coming up this Wednesday. Tell me about this.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Yeah, we're doing a fundraiser. It's a two part fundraiser.
It's a shooting competition. We're going to determine who gets
the biggest percentage of the money that we raise is
split between the Omaha Police Department Foundation and the Douglas
County Sheriff Foundation. And we go out to eighty eight tactical.
Anybody that comes that wants to shoot, can't shoot. It's
(19:45):
a competition. We do have a prize for them to
make it a little more interesting. We have a team
of six from Douglas County Sheriff and the Omaha Police Department.
They shoot against each other. Whoever shoots the best out
of those two groups, we'll get the higher percentage of
the money. After the shooting event, you don't have to
participate in that if you don't want to. We have
(20:07):
a banquet at the Shriners Hall. There'll be a happy hour,
there's a tenderloin dinner. We'll give the prizes out to
the top shooters, will present the money to the first
responders that are there, and then we do have a
number of raffles that we're going to have. You can
purchase raffle tickets so last year it was a great event.
(20:28):
This year should be even better.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
That's coming up this Wednesday, the shootout at eighty eight
Tactical the event and dinner at the Shriners after that
in the evening. Go to Mapoa dot com for all
the information and a register to either shoot to eat
or both. That's Mapoa dot com, MOPA metro Omaha Property
(20:52):
Owners Association Mapoa dot com. Rick McDonald is the president
of this organization. That's going to be a lot of
fun on Wednesday. Thank you so much for what you
shared with us from your perspective here about some of
these ideas, the scant few political ideas we've had from
the Democratic nominee for the presidency. Rick, I appreciate your
conversation today. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
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