By: Bradley Kraus - Attorney at Law - Warren Allen LLP
Bradley Kraus is an attorney at Warren Allen LLP, where he is a member of the firm's landlords' rights team. A graduate of the University of Minnesota, Mr. Kraus also graduated cum laude from Lewis and Clark Law School. He currently represents many of the Pacific Northwest's premier management companies and ownership entities and assists clients in various litigation matters, including business, property and contract disputes.
A landlord recently approached me after I watched his eviction trial. He was pro se, and lost to a well-known tenants' attorney due to, among other things, a failure to follow the statutes and requirements set out in the statutes which govern eviction actions in Oregon. Among his questions about what just happened, he exclaimed, [t]his is so straightforward; they owe me rent! That should be all that matters! Doesn't the judge care?!"