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Staff recommends continuing use of private inspectors for RentalReady; in‑house option would cost about $977,000 annually
Summary
City staff recommended on May 10 that the RentalReady housing inspections remain contracted to qualified private firms rather than moved in‑house because of expected staffing, scheduling and cost challenges; staff estimated an in‑house program would require eight inspectors and cost about $977,000 in the first year.
Tom Skinnell, the city’s community development director, told the City Council on May 10 that staff recommends continuing the existing program that uses pre‑qualified private housing inspectors to perform RentalReady inspections rather than bringing the work in‑house.
Skinnell said the city has roughly 10,608 rental units in census estimates; after excluding units that already receive annual HUD or similar inspections, staff estimates about 8,800 units would need RentalReady inspections in a given year. That workload equates to about 731 units per month. To perform that work in‑house,…
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