Fair Housing Pitfall: Overly Restrictive Occupancy Standards

 

While vital to prevent overcrowding, occupancy standards may violate fair housing rules to the extent they have the effect of excluding families with children.

Spot the Discrimination Mistake

A tenant who shares a one-bedroom apartment with her husband tells the landlord she’s pregnant with the couple’s first child. Along with a smile and warm congratulations, the landlord offers her an eviction notice. Explanation: Once the baby is born, the couple will be over the community’s strict two-person-per-bedroom occupancy standard.

 

Phil Querin Article: Changes to Recreational Vehicle Regulation (HB2634)

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 home or floating home, rents the space on which the manufactured or floating home is located, and that rented space is located inside a facility (manufactured housing park or marina).

Phil Querin Q&A: Fences, Damage, and Landlord Liability

 

Question. I am looking for information dealing with fence liability between landlords and tenants, and between tenants and other tenants.

Our Park Management has not put up any fences. All fences were installed by current and past tenants. Generally, my questions relate to the duty to maintain these fences, liability from trees (hazard and otherwise), and repair issues and fences that were installed by past vs. current tenants.

 

Fair Housing Pit Falls: Charging Tenants a Fee to Process Accommodations Requests

Designated parking spaces for mobility-impaired tenants is another frequent source of reasonable accommodations complaints and legal mistakes. Consider this common scenario.

Spot the Discrimination Mistake

A landlord is ready, willing, and able to provide designated parking and other reasonable accommodations for mobility-impaired individuals, provided that those individuals are willing to pay the costs of processing the request.

Tenant Screening - Secrets To Getting A Rental Application Processed Fast!

By Rebekah Near, CEO of Orca Information, Inc. 
Tenant & Employment Background Screening Company Reviewing a rental application BEFORE submitting it to your tenant screening company for process seems to no longer be “cool." Landlords and Property Managers are being sold the business model of "hands-off the rental application” process. All the Landlord needs, is to buy the "savvy" property management software. It does it all! Just direct the applicant to the management company website. Once on the website, "the applicant does all the work of applying". You, the Landlord get to sit back and wait for the results. No interaction (or very little) with the applicant is needed. I mean after all, saving you time means saving you money, 
right? Not necessarily!
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