Re: Do you write tickets?
We used to write tickets, until we wrote a ticket to a corporate attorney who tried to have me arrested for impersonating a police officer.
As for finding out who to cite, our code basically set levels of responsibility. For instance, the occupant was responsible for routine maintenance kind of stuff (i.e. grass cutting, leave raking, and trash pick up) the property owner was responsible for structure maintenance (i.e. siding repair, painting, and bigger ticket kind of stuff. Our county maintains a data of who owns what, we generally will notify the tenant and the property owner.
We don't do inspections upon change of ownership or occupancy anymore, we are completely complaint driven.