Community Updates

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…

HB 2634 moves the regulation of Recreational Vehicles out of the Manufactured Dwelling/Floating Homes portion of the ORLTA (ORS 90.505 – 90.850) and into the residential dwelling portion (ORS 90.100 – 90.465). ORS 90.505 – 90.850 now only applies to situations where the tenant owns a manufactured…

On July 6, 2023 the Oregon Legislature passed SB 611 which lowered the existing cap on annual rent increases for residential tenancies.  With the Governor's signature the bill is now the law.   Every year in late September, the state of Oregon calculates a maximum rent increase for residential…

Reviewing the applicant’s rental application Since 1995 when Orca Information, Inc. first opened its doors for business Nationwide, we found the following: The Landlord who reviews a rental application, making sure it is filled out correctly, all phone numbers are provided, signatures, etc., will…

  By:  Phil Querin, MHCO Legal Counsel   The Oregon Governor will sign HB 2001 on Wednesday, March 29, 2023; it makes significant changes to the Oregon Residential Landlord Tenant Act (“ORLTA”). Here is a summary of those provisions most likely to impact landlords and tenants in Oregon…

By Phil Querin, MHCO Legal Counsel, Querin Law, LLC Under Oregon law, a security interest on a manufactured home must be recorded on the structure’s Ownership Document. (ORS 446.571(3)). The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services administers the Manufactured Home Ownership Document…