Community Updates

  In addition to the plan you are developing for your manufactured home community, you should encourage each resident family to have its own disaster plan in place.  Residents should know what types of disaster could occur, and what they can do about each one.  A community newsletter is a good way…

  By Kriston Capps July 16, 2024 at 2:00 AM PDT Bloomberg Online   President Joe Biden is calling on Congress to pass a form of national rent control for some 20 million apartment units nationwide, a dramatic federal intervention in the housing market on behalf of current tenants. The…

Fair housing law generally prohibits discrimination based on familial status, but there’s a limited exception that applies to senior housing communities that qualify as “housing for older persons.” To qualify, senior housing communities must meet strict technical requirements. Unless they satisfy…

Introduction.  The Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) generally provides that when most employees work more than a 40-hour week, they are entitled to additional compensation. Commencing on July 1, 2024 the Department of Labor (“DOL”) regulations will provide new eligibility standards for overtime…

  By:  Rebekah Near, CEO, Orca Information, Inc.   Last article I wrote was titled, A COMMON MISTAKE WHEN DENYING APPLICANT COULD COST YOU THOUSANDS.  The focus of the topic was on giving your applicant who does not qualify for the unit the ADVERSE ACTION LETTER which is sometimes referred to…

Rebekah Near is the owner and CEO of a Tenant and Employment screening company in the Northwest.  Every day in my office at Orca information, Inc. I overhear my Background Investigators talking on their phones with rental or employment applicants.  Often the conversation is centered around Adverse…

Editor's Note:  MHCO is working on developing a new form - addendum - to meet the new requirements set forth in SB1069.  We hope to have the new form uploaded to MHCO.ORG later next month. SB1069 modifies portions of the Oregon Landlord Tenant Law to permit the transmission of certain kinds of…

  Senate Bill 599 sets out an entirely new section of the ORLTA allowing tenants to use their dwellings as “family child care homes.” A landlord may not prohibit the use provided that the tenant has obtained the proper certification under ORS 329A.280 or ORS 329A.330, and has provided notice to…

HB 3443 adds “bias crime” as defined by ORS 147.380, ORS 166.155, and ORS 166.165 to a number of different statutes in the ORLTA. The term “bias crime” is added to all statutes that previously addressed tenant-impacts of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking. Terminations for domestic…

By Bill Miner and Seth (Moe) Tangman First, the bad news: Recent uptick in class action lawsuits puts manufactured home park landlords at risk of damages for technical statutory violations. There has been an uptick in class action lawsuits filed by manufactured home tenants related to submeter or…