landlord law

Squatters Rights: A Frightening Case Study

by Tom Koziol | April 24, 2009

I will be the first to admit I thought I had a handle on residency, i.e. when and how it is established. I am taking excerpts from an article that appeared on April 21, 2009 in a Spokane valley newspaper under the headline: Unwanted tenants may have moved on and using it as the basis [...]

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Keeping Sex Offenders From Your Business and Tenants

by Brendan O'Brien | October 11, 2008

You don’t want a newspaper story like this about your properties. I was annoyed at first, but I understood the woman‘s position. If I had been in her shoes, I would have done exactly the same thing. “I’m sorry to have to back out,” she said. “I have young children and I found out that [...]

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On the Fence with Landlording? A Rental with Bite!

by Jim Watkins | December 27, 2007

When it comes to owning and managing a rental property, I don’t care to spend money for things that are not needed. So a few years ago, when a tenant of mine asked if I would pay to have a fence installed for the back yard, I asked, “Why?” The tenant wanted to get a [...]

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