Seattle Restricts Landlords’ Questions About Tenant Criminal Backgrounds
The Seattle City Council has passed an ordinance 8-0 to bar landlords from using criminal records to screen tenants based on past arrests or criminal convictions, with the exception of sex offenders, according to a...
Landlords Appeal Ruling In Tenant Relocation Lawsuit
Portland landlords, who lost the first round in a lawsuit against the Portland tenant relocation ordinance back in July, have filed an appeal to the judge’s ruling.The two Portland landlords last February claimed the...
Landlords Settle Fair Housing Pet Discrimination Case For $72,000
Northern California landlords have settled pet discrimination allegations that they and their agents discriminated against a female tenant with disabilities who requires an assistance animal, according to a release from the U.S. Department of...
Portland Landlords Lose First Round In Suit Against Relocation Ordinance
A judge has ruled in Circuit Court in Portland against landlords who had challenged the city’s relocation ordinance passed earlier this year.
Judge Henry Breithaupt, a tax court judge sitting in Circuit Court, upheld the...
Rent Control And No Cause Evictions Bill Dies In Senate
Controversial legislation to remove the state-wide ban on rent control in Oregon and to set new rules for no-cause evictions has died in the Oregon Senate, according to reports.
The bill, HB 2004 , passed...
Man Who Shot Portland Property Managers Sentenced to 13 Years
A man who shot two employees working as property managers at the Cascadian Terrace Apartments in Portland during an eviction last December has been sentenced to 13 and a half years in prison, according...
First in Time Lawsuit: Yim et al. v. City of Seattle
By Evan L. Loeffler
The First in Time lawsuit continues. The City of Seattle filed an answer to the plaintiffs’ complaint in early April essentially denying all relevant allegations and claiming the matter should not...
3 Ways Property Managers Can Protect Themselves From Potentially Violent Tenants
What property managers and owners can learn from the shooting last year of two property managers in Portland following the eviction of a tenant.
By John Triplett
The two property managers who were shot by a...
How Much Do You Know About Atypical Evictions?
Atypical evictions can happen when landlords and property managers have to deal with the issue of unmarried co-tenants and roommates, sometimes on the lease and sometimes not on the lease.
When things do not work...
Two Property Managers Shot During Eviction At Portland Apartments
Two property managers for Community Development Partners, working at the Cascadian Terrace Apartments in Portland, were shot and wounded by a tenant during an eviction “due to behavioral issues” in late December.
Both managers, a...