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Community Update
Headline #3: Owners Pay $40K to Settle Claims that Neighbors Harassed Resident’s Disabled Daughter
  The Justice Department announced that the owners and property managers of a 15-unit apartment community have agreed to pay $40,000 to settle allegations that they failed to stop disability-related harassment of a resident’s daughter by…
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Harassment, Tenant on Tenant Harassment, Children, ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act), Fair Housing, Discrimination Against Children, Disabilities, Rules and Regulations, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Mark Busch Questions and Answers
Mark Busch Q&A: COVID-19: Reopening RV Park Facilities 
  Question:  Our county has entered Phase 2 of the reopening procedures for COVID-19.  While we have kept the park restrooms, showers and laundry room open during the state-wide shutdown, we have kept other park facilities…
Phil Querin Questions & Answers
Phil Querin: Political & Religious Material in Club House (Reminder about political material and MHC)
Question: We have a resident who has expressed displeasure over finding political  & religious pamphlets, etc., left in the clubhouse.  Not wanting to cater to the complaining resident, but also not wanting to offend others…
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Political Signs, Political materials
Community Update
Headline #2:  Community Owner to Pay $35,000 to Settle Dispute Over Resident's Pit Bull
The owners and managers of a Midwest community recently agreed to pay $35,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the Justice Department, alleging that they violated fair housing law by placing undue conditions on a resident’s request to live with her…
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Fair Housing, Fair Housing Act, Pitbulls, Assistance Animals, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Phil Querin Questions & Answers
Phil Querin Q&A: Resident Behavior Prevents Landlord From Renting Neighboring Space
Question:  Our manager is having difficulties with troublesome residents who are interfering with his efforts to fill spaces. In one case it is a vacant mobile home the manager is showing, but the neighbor is mean/obnoxious and does not want…
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Resident behavior
Phil Querin Questions & Answers
Phil Querin: Eight Q&As on Covid-19, Rent Concession, Forms 13A & 13B, Utilities ....
Question. There is a lot of misinformation floating around about the Multnomah County/City of Portland Moratorium regarding COVID-related loss of income by residents. What is the straight story?  
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Rent Concession