Opinion: Rental owners can help reduce crime
Just a week and a half before the fatal shooting of a Binghampton volunteer coach, Adam Holton and the children of Binghampton get ready to march from the Carpenter Art Garden in protest the gun violence that is effecting the children of Memphis Feb. 13, 2024. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
Daniel Quinn
Danny Quinn has 40 years of experience as a residential rental property owner and management consultant in Memphis. He partners with JD Marks Property Management to oversee the management and operation of hundreds of residential rental units in the Memphis area.
“Rental property owners can reduce crime by utilizing police calls for service information at their properties. This is no untested theory. It is a proven method that has been put into practice in other crime-ridden neighborhoods in Memphis. And it works.”
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