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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGEBy: Tia Politi, ORHA President
I am equal parts excited and terrified to be your new ORHA President! I would like to honor our outgoing President, Sage Coleman, who despite challenges in his personal life, continued the work started by Past-President and current Legislative Director, Jason Miller, to make our group more efficient and cohesive by dragging us into the 21st Century in regards to our use of technology. The Google platform is allowing our committee and team members to collaborate more effectively in many ways. Sage’s term hit during the pandemic and required extraordinary efforts in regards to leadership and legislation. He was an effective voice for ORHA during some crucial conversations and media events and represented us well. A shout out of appreciation to Vice President Ben Seamans, who stepped up ably to fill in for Sage when he was unable to be present. We have a dedicated, dynamic and cohesive board that comes together when needed to support each other when our personal lives conflict with our volunteer lives. During the past year or so, we have discovered the efficiencies (and cost savings) that can be created through virtual meetings, but we also feel that in-person meetings provide a creative (and fun) dynamic that helps us connect in a way that virtual meetings can’t. Therefore, the board has decided to hold two of our six bi-monthly meetings each year remotely for the months of November and January. Since travel is more difficult during the fall and winter months, it made sense to stay home then. A little bit about me: I have been a housing provider since 2003, and a licensed property manager since 2009. I am also President of the Rental Owners Association of Lane County, Secretary for ORHA Education, Inc., and I head up the ORHA Forms Committee. I serve as a volunteer instructor for St. Vincent de Paul’s Second Chance Renter’s Rehab Program, and teach classes in rental management throughout the state, including a class teaching high school seniors the basics of renting a home. I own and operate Rental Housing Support Services, LLC, providing consultation, landlord-tenant training, mediation, notice prep and service, eviction support, and telephone helpline services to housing providers in Oregon. Married 34 years to Kevin, two grown children, two dogs. Love power walking, gardening, playing cards and board games, and working. Besides myself, our other new and continuing officers are Ben Seamans, (serving his first official two-year term as Vice President after stepping in to the position several months ago), Jill Maricich who will serve another term as Treasurer, and Parker Vernon, who has agreed to be our acting Secretary until we can vote him in at the next meeting. The Executive Committee also consists of At-Large Member and ORHA Technology Chair, Cloud Miller, representing SE Oregon, as well as Legislative Director Jason Miller, and longtime ORHA board members and EC advisors, Dennis Chappa, and Violet Wilson, and Maria Menguita, ORHA Social Media Committee Chair. Sage Coleman will continue to serve on the committee, fulfilling the role of Past President. We are blessed with a fantastic and growing group of leaders in the state organization as well as our local associations, and are excited to see younger members stepping up to lead at the state and local level. The future for ORHA is brighter than ever and I look forward to collaborating with all of you to ensure that our group continues to improve on the work of our past leaders and volunteers, maintaining ORHA’s stature as the voice of landlords throughout the state. Please feel free to reach out to me with ideas, suggestions, compliments or complaints: orhapres@gmail.com. Warm regards, Forms Commitee report - legislative impactsBy: Tia Politi, Forms Committee Chair
There have been some substantial impacts to some of our forms, including 10-Day Notice to Pay or Vacate for Nonpayment of Rent – ORHA form 4A; 13-Day Notice to Pay or Vacate for Nonpayment of Rent – ORHA form 44A; Past-Due Rent Reminder – ORHA form 14; and Notice of Termination with Cause – ORHA form 38 (just in case you’re using this form to collect money from the tenant). These forms have had language added to comply with statute. That language reads as follows, “Eviction for nonpayment of rent, charges and fees that accrued between April 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021 is not allowed before February 28, 2022.” If you want to continue to use notices that do not have this language, that’s fine as long as you write in that required statement. It is required to be included on any notice of termination for nonpayment and any reminder notices regarding protected debt (debt incurred during the Emergency Period). This change lasts through February 28, 2022. I’m excited to announce that our new rental agreements are available on the Forms Store and also in print version. You will notice substantial changes not only in the look of the forms, but also in the text in response to your suggestions. Many thanks to committee member, Jason Brush of Klamath Falls, who spent many hours working with me on the agreements to create “boilerplate” language that won’t need to be frequently updated. He brought a great perspective to our team that was much needed. We are also now selling our long-awaited Week-to-Week tenancy forms. With the advent of increasing restrictions on housing providers, the week-to-week option provides a lot more flexibility and control over tenancies and skirts a lot of the restrictions imposed both by statute and by COVID-19 restrictions. Our week-to-week forms include a rental agreement, rent increase notice, termination for no-cause and termination for cause. While week-to-week agreements do have some benefits, they also have some special limitations with no ability to charge a security deposit or any fees at all. This, however, does not mean that residents won’t be liable for damage. We think this will be a great option for providers who wish to rent short-term or rent rooms in their own home. For now, these are only available on the Forms Store site. If we get enough interest, we may be able to print small batches. As we work through the rest of the updates to our forms, and creation of some new forms, we will continue to roll those out on the Forms Store just as soon as they are available and let you know when updated forms can be printed and ordered. With no office space or employee, I’ve moved the physical forms to my office in Eugene and am handling forms orders for now. But another upcoming change will be to have a centralized printer who will receive and send out our orders. We anticipate that change will be implemented within the next month or two. This will eliminate the constant problem of overordering and purging outdated stock, which has plagued ORHA for years! We are forever losing money on forms, but with the new system, orders will be printed and filled as needed, eliminating the problem of keeping or purging inventory as forms change.
Annual Rent Increase Percentage: Housing Providers (Landlords, Owners, Property Managers), The maximum allowable rent increase percentage for the 2022 calendar year is 9.9% (7% + CPI of 2.9%)
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