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Sean McKee
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Chicago, IL
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Just Cause Ordinance Chicago

Sean McKee
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Chicago, IL
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Hello BP,

This post is mainly for my fellow Chicago investors.  I've heard about a just cause ordinance that is being proposed.  I took a very high level look at it and the proposal is quite ridiculous. For example, the landlord would have to pay up to 5 times the median rent if terminating without a just cause. The median rent would be set by the city. Yet the landlord can still increase rents up to 19% a year and not pay anything. So I'm not sure what this ordinance would accomplish, other than slowing down the inevitable and causing more headaches for landlords.

Has anyone heard any updates about this?  Is this likely to pass? With all the recent changes to the housing laws in Cook County, it would not shock me.

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