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Phil Querin Q&A - Refund of Deposit When Tenants Split Up

Phil Querin Questions & Answers
Phil Querin

Answer: Regarding the security deposit, the landlord-tenant statutes do not directly provide direction. Since we don't know who actually "paid" the deposit and whether it was from their combined marital funds, I think this question should be asked, assuming you have the current address for both former spouses.

Phil Querin Q&A - Partial Payment of Rent - Landlord's Rights

Phil Querin Questions & Answers
Phil Querin

Answer: The Oregon landlord-tenant law does not "require" that a landlord accept partial payments. To the contrary, it provides that it is a "tenant's duty regarding rent payments is to tender to the landlord an offer of the full amount of rent owed within the time allowed by law and by the rental agreement... ."

Complying With ADA Requirements for Public Accommodations

Property Management
MHCO

Among other things, the ADA requires public accommodations to make new public use facilities fully accessible, to remove physical barriers for older ones (built before January 23, 1993) to the extent "readily achievable," and to make any "alterations" to existing public use facilities accessible to the "maximum extent feasible."

Federal Judge Puts New Overtime Rule on Hold

Community Update
Chuck Carpenter
A federal judge in Texas has issued a national temporary injunction on implementation of the Obama Administration's new overtime rule, previously set to go into effect on December 1. As has been reported by MHI on multiple occasions, the Department of Labor (DOL) had issued a new rule that would have doubled (to $47,476) the salary threshold for the so-called "white collar" exemption to overt

The 2016 Election's Expected Impact on Manufactured Housing

Community Update
Chuck Carpenter

Last Tuesday, voters elected Donald J. Trump (R) as the 45th President of the United States. Voters turned out to vote against the establishment in favor of ending the status quo. This populist right" movement does not subscribe to traditional Republican ideology