As some of you know lead paint is a source of trouble for everyone involved including the tenants who have to shuttle children to clinics and doctors, some of you could have some form of reporting your place as a rental (hopefully a no cost thing), the big city I live and workinhas had a registering fee of 35bux which many have ignored including the late housing court chief justice however he suddenly passed away about 2 years ago and the appointed judge came from the housing division and now he is demanding everyone register (a simple grab the money event because they never planned to do anything about the lead anyway which has been in the news more than once) which is actually a duplication of existing tax records and water bills.

We have no lead registry in my area that I'm aware of.

What I did just learn about recently is all land lords have until Nov 21, 2018 to register rentals in my town. This was voted on by City Counsel, but no notice sent out other than you just have to be generally reading info in news papers, etc. There is no COST, fortunately, and the purported idea is this is to help "facilitate communication" when there are issues. If you don't register and the city finds a code violation, there's a non-registration penalty ($200, I think?).

I doubt many Ma and Pa land lords are paying attention and will learn of this. Probably a lot of bigger land lords will just ignore it. Being the good Boy Scout I am, I went ahead and did all my props yesterday to be safe. We'll see if anything negative comes from it.

Get the Lead Out.

As of 4/6/2017,

Grand Rapids, Michigan has 1,452 Lead-Safe Homes

Back in 1999 my recently purchased apartment complex had lots of chipping lead paint. The city, Los Angeles, ordered me to remove the chipping paint and repaint the surface so it looks nice. They didn't care about the lead in the paint, the dangers is poses for the tenants, their children or the people removing the paint. I was give a short period of time to comply.

Being a licensed contractor with "lead certification" I informed the City this abatement required special techniques and tenant cooperation. The City didn't care and fined me each time they inspected the property and things weren't complete.

I took my case to the State of California, the EPA and several Federal agencies. No one could do a thing to educate my City since they were only after money and didn't care about safety.

Over time things changed and the Feds made State and City's comply with Lead Safe Practices.

In Europe, in 1900, they outlawed lead paint. It took almost 80 years for the United Stated to put Children's health before profit or the Paint Industry.