alternativetively --tively, anecdotal evidence suggests that investor owners sometimes rent properties out to tenants with little or no rehabilitation or maintenance of the property. we had a hearing in minneapolis in january, 2010, at that hearing, state senator higgins said, homes have been snapped up by investors, some are clueless about how to rehabilitate a building and get good tenants. others think that the laws really aren't meant for them. they buy a house for pennies, paint the walls, scrubt kitchen appliances and rent it out. they forget the small details like the condemn nation order and the requirements for lifting the condemnnation and getting a new certificate of occupancy and the need for a rental license. that is no not to say that all private investment is bad but we must recognize that the work n.s.p. is doing is a critical counterweight to some of these bad practices. for all of these reasons i will defend the work that n.s.p. is doing across the country, however we hear now no more -- we are here now because we need to talk about this amendment and what it would do