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adding that some owners have had “a bad taste left in their mouths” because of a previous experience with bad tenants. It seems that many owners just don’t want the “hassle” of being landlords. Thus many houses are vacant.
Atkins estimated that approximately 50 percent of all houses in the county are owned by people who don’t live here full-time. “A lot of people don’t even come to the county,” she said. That is an agonizing fact for those who live or work in the county and are searching for a place to rent.
“Calls come in constantly from teachers who are looking for rental housing,” Atkins noted. But there is little,
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