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One decision can make a significant difference in monthly payments: whether to finance the mobile home with a personal property loan or a mortgage.
Personal property loans, known as chattel loans, have much higher interest rates than mortgages. To some owners of manufactured homes, refinancing chattel loans into mortgages could reduce monthly housing expenses.
On Monday, March 9th the Oregon House Revenue Committee held a Public Hearing and Work Session on HB 3016 - also known as the Manufactured Housing Landlord Tenant Coalition Bill. The House Revenue Committee voted unaminsously to pass the bill to the House Human Services and Housing Committee.
Last week the Manufactured Housing Landlord Tenant Coalition held it's final meeting. Some changes were made to the In Park Sales Conflict" issue but the other three issues remained substantially unchanged from our meeting in January.
The 2015 Oregon Legislative Session convened this month with House and Senate Committees beginning their work the first week in February. There are a wide variety of issues the Oregon Legislature will be dealing with - many being repeats from previous sessions such as education funding and taxes that never seem to go away.
The Manufactured Housing Landlord-Tenant Coalition met again this month to discuss a number of issues as we head into the 2015 Oregon Legislative Session that is just over a month away.
Lengthy Discussion on Competing Sales Conflict"
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The Manufactured Housing Landlord Tenant Coalition met earlier this week to continue negotiations on a variety of issues. Here is a summary of what is moving, what is not and what still needs to be discussed as we prepare for the 2015 Oregon Legislative Session.
Abandoned Manufactured Home and Back Taxes
The SAFE Act has received a lot of attention lately by park owners, but did you know that it’s really only one law of many state and federal lending regulations you are required to comply with when selling homes on contract?
The Manufactured Housing Landlord - Tenant Coalition (negotiations) convened again the end of last month (August 2014) to further discuss a number of issues that may potentially be adopted into legislation in 2015. Here is a summary of the latest developments on several key issues.