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Mark Busch RV Question & Answer: Nonpayment Problems with RV Tenants

Mark Busch Questions and Answers
Mark L. Busch

Answer:  Unfortunately, Oregon’s “3-strikes rule” only applies to mobile home park tenants who own their homes.  It allows parks to issue a non-curable, 30-day eviction notice to mobile home tenants if they accumulate three or more 10-day nonpayment notices within a 12-mon

Evicting “Vacation Occupants” from RV Park

Mark Busch Questions and Answers
Mark L. Busch

Answer: You do not have to offer him a rental agreement.  Since you indicate that he has signed the MHCO vacation occupancy agreement, presumably he qualifies as a vacation occupant.  Under Oregon law (ORS 90.110 (7)), vacation occupants are not tenants and are not entitle

Phil Querin: 55 and Older Communities

Property Management
Phil Querin

Virtually all forms of “familial discrimination” became illegal under the FHAA, such as the refusal to rent to tenants because they had children; imposing different terms or conditions of rental depending upon whether they had children; discouraging persons from living in a manufactured housing community if they had children, etc.

Squatter on RV Space

Mark Busch Questions and Answers
Mark L. Busch

The person is first and foremost a trespasser.  As such, you should first try contacting the police or sheriff, explain the situation to them, and ask them to remove this person from the park.  You should also ask them to issue a no trespass order so that if the person returns, they can be arrested for trespassing.

Mark Busch - RV Law Update

Mark Busch Questions and Answers
Mark L. Busch

Most importantly, the “vacation occupancy” period for RVs has been expanded from 45 days to 90 days.  This means if you have a written agreement that complies with the vacation occupancy requirements in HB 2634, those RV occupants do not become “tenants” under Oregon law.  As such, they may be asked to vacate at any tim

Bill Miner Article: Mediation Q&A

Property Management
Bill Miner
  1. What does mediation mean? Mediation is an alternative dispute resolution process that is different from going to court and having a judge (or jury) pick a winner and loser by determining the facts and applying the law to the facts.