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 closed. We are still reluctant to open our swimming pool, small indoor rec center, and playground. What are we required to…
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 or place the park in a bad position, what is the safest legal way to deal with this issue?
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 the home purchased. In the other case we have an empty RV pad and another neighbor comes out scaring away…
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?
Question 1
The law and MHCO ocupancy agreement both state that a landlord can screen an occupant for conduct or criminal history but not for credit history or income level. If after screening a temporary occupant, the findings reveal that they have civil case(s) and/or eviction matters relating to previous rental history where the derogatory…
By:
Jeffrey S. Bennett, Attorney at Law
Warren Allen, LLP
A Historical Perspective
For many years, landlords and tenants alike have been asking for Leases that provide long term stability and predictable expectations. When compared to month-to-month tenancies or commonly used fixed term Leases (e.g., one or two year Leases), long term…
This month at Manufactured Housing Communities of Oregon (MHCO), we look at how to avoid fair housing trouble while dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. For months now, the nation has been confronting the public health emergency caused by the new coronavirus. By April, all 50 states had reported cases of COVID-19 to the U.S. Centers for Disease…
Question.I have a question about the Pet form. The term “assistance” animal is used throughout. We are in a disagreement with HUD over a comfort animal versus a “service” animal. (one state document does use the term assistance and classes that as service in a footnote)
Our defense is that the terms are very specific in the laws, or…
Question: We have residents in our RV park who seem to be blatantly violating the governor’s COVID-19 emergency stay-at-home order. Some residents have outside family members or guests come by regularly, while a few other residents get together on their spaces to just “hang out” in the evenings. This has caused some concern in the park, so…
Last week we uploaded “10 rules on how to avoid fair housing claims based on familial status”. This week, let’s look at how the rules might apply in the real world. Here are 4 questions - with answers posted on MHCO.ORG.
INSTRUCTIONS: Each of the following questions has only one correct answer.
