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MHCO Legislative Report 4-10-19

We crossed a significant threshold this week in the Oregon Legislature with a number of bills going to the legislative graveyard.  MHCO is tracking and working to defeat/pass a number of bills this session.  Rent Control (SB 608) was not the only bill that concerned MHCO this legislative session.  For the latest status on proposed legislation - the good, the bad and the truly horrific - click the the attachment above.  We are pleased that a significant number of legislative proposals have been defeated.  We are still hoping for an adjournment in late June 2019.

Phil Querin: 10 Question and Answers on Oregon's New Rent Control Law

On February 28, 2019 SB 608 (rent control) was signed into law.  MHCO has received numerous questions regarding the new statute.  We asked MHCO Legal Counsel to review 10 of the most frequent questions and provide answers.  This is the first of many Q&As regarding Oregon's new law.  Click the file (10 Questions and Answers Regarding Oregon's New Rent Control Law) above for the complete question and answer.  MHCO will continue to provide detailed information on the new law through Q&As as well an in-depth seminars at MHCO's Annual Conference in Eugene on October 28 & 29th.  

If Mobile Home Parks Could Talk: How to recognize, and manage, the stories and stress of residents on the managers

There is a new documentary on President Carter's Camp David Accords. At Camp David, the president brought two warring countries to the negotiation table. The parties met daily, all day, every day until they reached and signed a peace agreement knows as the "Camp David Accords". An interesting ground rule was, no one, not even the three presidents of three countries could leave Camp David until they reached an agreement. That meant no sight-seeing, restaurant or bar-hopping by the leaders, advisors and staff. This was decades before iPhones, too.

If Mobile Home Parks Could Talk: How to recognize, and manage, the stories and stress of residents on the managers

There is a new documentary on President Carter's Camp David Accords. At Camp David, the president brought two warring countries to the negotiation table. The parties met daily, all day, every day until they reached and signed a peace agreement knows as the "Camp David Accords". An interesting ground rule was, no one, not even the three presidents of three countries could leave Camp David until they reached an agreement. That meant no sight-seeing, restaurant or bar-hopping by the leaders, advisors and staff. This was decades before iPhones, too.