Rent Control – Bad for Landlords, Tenants, and Portland
Fair Rent Portland (“FRP”) has a proposal on this coming Tuesday’s ballot (Portland Question No. 1, not to be confused with State-wide No. 1, regarding a casino in York County), seeking to implement what it calls “rent stabilization,” a term... Read More →
Portland Adopts “Housing Insecurity Policies”
After months of policy proposals, amendments and hearings, late Monday night the Portland City Council voted unanimously to adopt the Housing Committee’s five-point plan for addressing housing insecurity in Portland. The new provisions will require some additional fine-tuning to flesh... Read More →
Pay It Forward: Bad Movie, Terrible Policy
A few clients, tenants and landlords alike, have recently come to me to deal with situations caused by the rental policy of “paying it forward” when it comes to tenants’ security deposits. It’s a policy that comes up most commonly... Read More →
The Legal Fiction of the “No-Fault Eviction”
There has been a lot of talk among tenants’ rights groups, the press and others in Portland about “no-fault” or “no-cause” evictions, but the truth of the matter is there is no such thing as a no-fault eviction. The term... Read More →
What to Expect When You’re Being Inspected
If you own or manage rental property in Portland, you’re undoubtedly aware of the changes that have been taking place with regard to how the City treats rental units. Portland recently established a new Office of Housing Safety and enacted... Read More →
How to get evicted when you’re not being evicted.
The flyer pictured here showed up mysteriously on doors of a Portland rental property late last week. With no letterhead, logos, signature or any identifying information as to the author, it’s hard to tell who posted these, but given the... Read More →