On today’s talk, we’re kicking off a five-part series on the new Tenant Protection Act.
Featuring:
Bob Nelson, Eugene real estate investment broker
Marcia Edwards, Eugene residential real estate broker
Marcia Edwards: We’ve been talking about the landlord tenant law recently in generalities. It’s time to go into acceptance mode, Bob, I know you’re really pushing back on this, but it sounds like it’s reality.
Bob Nelson: It is absolutely reality. Senate bill 608, as it’s referred to, if people would like to look it up on the net or better yet talk to a property manager. They are well-steeped in the subject. Or better than that, talk to me because I am an investor in apartments and I represent people who deal in apartments substantially and we’re getting pretty familiar with what the Tenant Protection Act is all about and what it has done so far.
Marcia Edwards: Well, let’s talk about what it’s about a little bit. In regards to tenant’s rights and obligations, they’ve shifted to the tenant’s benefit generally, but termination sounds like it’s really changed, how you terminate a relationship with a tenant as a landlord.
Bob Nelson: Yes. In the past, if the landlord wanted to repossess or take possession of a unit and it was a month-to-month rental agreement, there was an obligation to give the tenant a notice of 30 days in advance if they had been there for a period of a year. If they’d been there longer than a year, a 60 day notice, and with that, the tenant understood they have an obligation to relocate and so forth. That has changed. That was called a no cause eviction. Most likely the landlord was doing that because of several things. Either the tenant was being abusive to the property or abusive to other tenants in that same complex. And literally the statement was, I need to have you removed because there are issues that are occurring that are detrimental to the rest of the people in the project. And so it was a nice way where you didn’t have to go to court, you didn’t have to blemish that person’s record by doing a for cause eviction, which then allows the next landlord to find out, oh, oh, you may be a problem and potentially suggest, no, I don’t want you either.
Marcia Edwards: It’s gone to a 90 day notice and there’s other clauses in particulars about that. We’ll talk about that in detail next program.
Join Eugene, Oregon, real estate experts: Bob Nelson, Real Estate Investment Broker with Pacwest Real Estate Investments, and Marcia Edwards, Residential Real Estate Broker with Windermere Real Estate, daily at 5:30 on KPNW for the “Real Estate Today” radio show.
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