New Landlord-Tenant Laws Oregon 2020

Best practicesSize candidates and filter them completely. Just because someone is filling out an application doesn`t mean they were true. Credit reporting laws changed in 2018, and now civil judgments such as evictions or small cash claims are not displayed on credit reports. It`s best to hire a screening company to at least draw the deportation and civil/criminal history to make sure they`re accurate. If you encounter information that you would probably deny, don`t stop there, but do the full screening. Coronavirus COVID-19 Invest in Investment Real Estate Owner Legal Responsibilities Owners Tenants Oregon Owner Tenant Law 2020 Covid-19 Property Management Rental Real Estate Rental Real Estate Any rental rent that dates from April 1, 2020 to April 30, 2020. September 2020, must be paid no later than March 31, 2021. From 1 October, tenants will have to pay their rent each month in accordance with the terms of the lease. But tenants have six months to repay the rent that accumulated before October. Starting in October and thereafter, a landlord can evict a tenant for non-payment of rent under the terms of the lease, but not a tenant because they did not pay the rent that was deferred between April 1 and September 30. A landlord must wait until April 1, 2021 to evict a tenant because they have not paid the rent that was due during the eviction moratorium.

The legislator adopted HB 4213 on June 26, 2020. Under the new law, no homeowners in Oregon are allowed up to 1. October 2020 do any of the following: Are there any other changes to the Landlord/Tenants Act that we should be aware of? There are new laws to keep in mind. The first is the City of Portland`s FAIR Ordinance, which refers to the standards a landlord can use when reviewing tenants who apply to rent a home. This new law is specific to Portland and will not go into effect until March 2020. So stay tuned for another video on the bar association`s website that is specific to this new law. This will come out in 2020, before the new law comes into force. Another law that will come into force in January 2020 is a national law that allows tenants to delete or seal the records of an eviction case in certain circumstances. You should also stay for a video specific to this law. It will soon be on the Oregon State Bar website. I hope these questions and answers have improved your understanding of Oregon`s new landlord and tenant laws. For more information on landlord/tenant law and other legal issues, you can always visit the Oregon State Bar website.

House Bills 4204 and 4213 went into effect on June 30, 2020, during the first special session of the Oregon Legislature of 2020. In Oregon`s testing law, you can`t consider drug-related convictions based solely on marijuana use or possession. When assessing an applicant, you cannot consider the possession of a medical marijuana card or the status of a medical marijuana patient when deciding whether to apply. Affordable housing providers subject to federal laws that prohibit the use or possession of marijuana (including medical marijuana) by residents of the site may continue to enforce these rules with their residents. Transcript of «More Legal Q&A: An Update to Landlord/Tenant Law in Oregon» Hello, my name is Troy Pickard and I am an attorney who practices landlord/tenant law in Portland. Recently, I was one of the speakers at a public seminar on changes to the Landlord and Tenant Act in Oregon, and the seminar was registered and is available on this website. If you saw it, you will see that the audience had a lot of questions. Due to time constraints, we weren`t able to answer all of these questions, but in this video, I`m going to answer some of these questions. I can`t answer all of them, especially because some of the questions are very specific and we just don`t have answers for everything. This is quite typical of new legislation. Sometimes we will not know the answer until someone takes a problem to court for a judge to decide, and sometimes the legislature comes in to fix it. But for now, I can only tell you what the new laws say and perhaps give you an overview based on my experience in this area of law.

Before we get to the specific issues of these new laws, let`s go over some nagging points that confuse people. The first is the difference between termination and expulsion. People use these terms interchangeably all the time, but they mean different things. Termination simply means the end of a lease. For example, every time a landlord goes to a tenant and issues a notice of termination that counts as a termination, and the same goes for every time a tenant goes to a landlord and gives their landlord a notice of termination. An eviction refers to a court case to evict a tenant who refuses to leave. If one party issues a notice of termination to the other party, but the tenant does not leave on time, a landlord may want to sue that tenant for eviction to get the court`s help in evicting the tenant. So remember, if you`re not dealing with a trial, don`t talk about an eviction. You are talking about a dismissal.

Another topic that comes up often is the difference between a lease and a lease. There is no formal difference between these things, but people usually refer to something in writing when they say «rental». It is not necessary for all lease agreements to be concluded in writing. although, it can be a very good idea. So you can have a verbal lease. You can also have a written rental agreement. Both could be considered a lease. I think the best practice is just to call them all the leases. Now let`s move on to the real questions. You can read the full bill here for SB 891: olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2021S2/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB891/Enrolled If an additional tenant is added to a lease, will it reset the clock for the first year? The new laws sometimes deal with whether a tenant is in the first year of occupancy. This term is defined by law to include all periods during which one of the tenants has lived in the apartment for less than a year. So if tenants one and two have lived in a house for ten years and then add three tenants to their lease after that ten-year period, adding tenant three begins a new first year of occupancy.

In addition, this invoice includes the extension of the requirement for 10 or 14 days` notice for non-payment of rent until September 30, 2022. Landlords must send an updated version of the Tenant Protection Letter with these notices of non-payment, which will be issued after the date of signature of SB 891 by the Governor. The updated Tenant Protection Letter will be available at the Oregon Rental Housing Forms Store in store.oregonrentalhousing.com/ the Oregon State Bar on August 10. July 2019, a free public seminar on the significant changes to Oregon`s landlord and tenant laws as passed by the Oregon Legislature this year. Do these new rules apply to leases entered into before the new laws came into force? Keep in mind that these new rules cover two areas: notices of rent increase and notices of termination. With respect to notices of rent increase, the new law applies to all notices of rent increase issued after February 28, 2019. .