The Ohio Real Estate Investors Association, a trade group that represents investors, landlords and entrepreneurs with rental properties, is apoplectic over last-minute changes to House Bill 186, a property-tax reform bill. They need to get a grip.

As cleveland.com’s Anna Staver reports, the trade association is warning Gov. Mike DeWine that rents will go up if he doesn’t veto a part of HB 186 that phases out a non-business tax credit landlords now enjoy to “put those dollars into Ohio’s owner occupancy credit.”

DeWine should ignore this siren call. Property tax reform means reform for everyone -- landlords with tenants and homeowners who reside in their homes.

The Ohio Senate’s amendments to HB 186, in which the Ohio House speedily concurred, direct the state to cover 15.38% of the prop

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