Community Updates

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…

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…

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

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

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

The Oregon Building Codes Division (BCD) will launch a new online Manufactured Home Ownership Document System (called MHODS") on Wednesday

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…

Vicki Coons is with Complete Mobile Home Sales and generously agreed to share this article with MHCO Members.  Her contact information is listed below.  MHCO is always excited to showcase an MHCO Associate Member.At some point, you'll feel ready to settle down and start a family. Though it's an…

A federal judge in Texas has issued a national temporary injunction on implementation of the Obama Administration's new overtime rule, previously set to go into effect on December 1. As has been reported by MHI on multiple occasions, the Department of Labor (DOL) had issued a new rule that would…

Last Tuesday, voters elected Donald J. Trump (R) as the 45th President of the United States. Voters turned out to vote against the establishment in favor of ending the status quo. This populist right" movement does not subscribe to traditional Republican ideology