Victoria Love, the city of Jackson’s rental registration manager, scrunched her eyebrows together into a deep line, mimicking the confused expression she said Mayor John Horhn made the first time she introduced herself to him in 2024. He was a state senator at the time.
“I’m giving him my card, and he just pauses and looks at me and is like, ‘Rental registration? What is it that you do besides getting the rentals to register?’” Love said.
Love, in fact, does a lot more than registration. The former property manager sends inspectors out to properties, she collects and crunches data on Jackson’s landlords, and she works with rental owners to help them maintain safe, habitable units…