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Mark L. Busch, P.C., Attorney at Law
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Tom Jarmer
P.O. Box 778
Clackamas, OR 97015

Phone: 503-722-1790
Fax: 503-722-1866
E-mail: ttjarmer@msn.com

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Community Update
Phil Querin Q&A: Lingering Moratorium Issues - Rent Due - How to Apply Payments
Note:  Sample Rent Ledger is attached above. Question 1: Tenant's balance goes back to the beginning of April 2020. Do we have to follow the rent schedule that is laid out by rental assistance agency?  Example: Oregon Emergency…
Property Management
Miner Minute: Fees for “Additional Occupants” or “Extra Vehicles” May Be Problematic
   Fees for “Additional Occupants” or “Extra Vehicles” may be problematic. Rental agreements sometimes contain a space for “extra vehicle fees” or “extra occupant fees.” These fees may be problematic considering the…
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Fees, Occupants
Property Management
Legal Case #4: You Don’t Have to Break the Law to Accommodate a Tenant
  A somewhat odd case out of California illustrates another important qualifier of the landlord’s duty to provide a requested accommodation. Situation: A tenant with “electromagnetic hypersensitivity” (EHS), which causes him to be…
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Reasonable Accommodation, Fair Housing
Property Management
Bill Miner Article: Publication of Submeter or Pro Rata Bills – Tenant Inspections.
Publication of Submeter or Pro Rata Bills – Tenant Inspections. ORS 90.582 has very specific requirements for landlords who bill tenants for water using a pro rata billing method or for landlords who bill their tenants via submeter for water.…
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Sub-Metering
Property Management
Legal Case #3: Duty to Make Reasonable Accommodations Doesn’t Require New Service Offerings
The basic rule is that landlords must make reasonable accommodations to the point of undue hardship. Most resonable accommodations cases were decided on the basis of reasonableness, including an Arizona case posing the question of whether it’s…
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Reasonable Accommodation
Property Management
Legal Case #2: OK to Request Information About a Disability to Verify Need for Accommodation
Nearly half of the cases this year address a landlord’s FHA duty to make reasonable accommodations. In most of these cases, the requested accommodation was purportedly necessary to afford a person with a disability an equal opportunity to use and…
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Reasonable Accommodation