Swiping legislation that will make major changes to landlord-tenant law will be enacted soon. Some of the key provisions include: notice to Pay Rent or Vacate extended from 3 days to 14 days; expansion of public funds to pay landlords past due rent; expanded discretion for courts to reinstate the tenancy, conditioned on payment of rent and in some cases court cost. While the eviction process will take longer, more landlords will actually get the rent they are owed, and in many cases the court costs as well. We have gotten thousands of judgments for residential landlords over the years […]
Monthly Archives: April 2019
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Sometimes tenants fail to respond to an eviction summons, or fail to appear for a hearing only to later appear in court and ask the court to give them another hearing date and to stay the eviction in the meantime. Landlords and their attorneys often get little or no notice of the stay until it is granted. A Court of Appeals decision had required tenants to give the landlord notice that they were seeking a stay, and required the tenant to post a bond. No longer. The state Supreme Court last week ruled that tenants are not required to give […]