Community Updates

Fair housing law generally prohibits discrimination based on familial status, but there’s a limited exception that applies to senior housing communities that qualify as “housing for older persons.” To qualify, senior housing communities must meet strict technical requirements. Unless they satisfy…

Introduction.  The Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) generally provides that when most employees work more than a 40-hour week, they are entitled to additional compensation. Commencing on July 1, 2024 the Department of Labor (“DOL”) regulations will provide new eligibility standards for overtime…

  By:  Rebekah Near, CEO, Orca Information, Inc.   Last article I wrote was titled, A COMMON MISTAKE WHEN DENYING APPLICANT COULD COST YOU THOUSANDS.  The focus of the topic was on giving your applicant who does not qualify for the unit the ADVERSE ACTION LETTER which is sometimes referred to…

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…