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April 19, 2017
Tony Petosa and Nick Bertino - Wells Fargo Multifamily CapitalFrom both a global and national perspective, we are in the midst of witnessing major change unfold as President Trump takes over the reins from the Obama administration. It is undeniable that material shifts in policy are in the works,…
April 19, 2017
We are now well into the second half of the 2017 Oregon Legislative Session. There finally is some good news - most of the bad legislative proposals that MHCO has been tracking have been defeated. There are four remaining bills - two that MHCO supports and two that MHCO opposes that are still…
April 10, 2017
There are several significant deadlines in the Oregon Legislature that start to willow down the life span of legislative proposals. The first of these deadlines was last Friday, April 7th. As of midnight on last Friday any bill in a committee in the chamber of origin (Senate bills in the Senate…
March 8, 2017
By Zach KoucosDirector, Holliday, Fenoglio, Fowler (HFF)The second half of 2016 and early 2017 signaled a great amount of uncertainty regarding the future of fiscal and regulatory policy in the United States. While everyone is trying to figure out what the impacts of policy changes by the Trump…
February 27, 2017
We are now into the fifth week of the 2017 Oregon Legislative Session. Last week MHCO held a very successful Lobby Day on Wednesday, February 22nd. We have a great turnout - 93 attendees - who met with 76 Legislators. Thank you to everyone who made the effort to attend and visit with their Senator…
February 15, 2017
By: Arthur Grebow, founding partner of Grebow and Rubin,?LLPThere is an old Chinese curse which says: May you live in interesting times." While sometimes taken as a blessing
February 8, 2017
The City of Portland upped its economic attack on the city's landlords last week by passing a tenant relocation assistance" ordinance. The ordinance requires landlords in the City of Portland to pay relocation expenses to tenants evicted for no-cause
February 6, 2017
By Michael G. McClory Although Sir Isaac Newton, the Lad from Lincolnshire, called by some the Father of Physics, has been dead for nearly 300 years, his thinking can help us make sense of the modern marijuana debates. I am thinking in particular of Newton's Third Law of Motion: For every action
January 27, 2017
The Oregon Building Codes Division (BCD) will launch a new online Manufactured Home Ownership Document System (called MHODS") on Wednesday
January 23, 2017
Escrow/Title Companies and Manufactured Home Dealers: The Oregon Building Codes Division (BCD) is moving toward launching a new online Manufactured Home Ownership Documents System (MHODS) with a projected "go-live" date of Feb. 1, 2017. MHODS Online The MHODS system will replace the state's…
