Jeffrey O'Brien
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“Acceptance of less than the full amount of rent due from Tenant does not waive Owner’s right to evict Tenant for any past or existing violation of any term of this Lease.” The above-quoted language is perhaps one of the …
Acceptance of Part Payment of Rent: Real Estate Radio Hour Legal Minute, March 1, 2014 Read More »
[NOTE: this post originally appeared on The Vanilla Shell on January 25, 2011]Ask any landlord within the City of Minneapolis what it’s like to do business there and you’re likely to get at least one story about a fight with …
Minnesota Court of Appeals Reins In City of Minneapolis Read More »
A few weeks ago, one of my colleagues sent me a funny email entitled “dopey warning signs.” The gist of the story was how certain lawsuits led to seemingly obvious warning signs on products. For example, an exercise bike from …
Minnesota Court of Appeals: Landlord Has No Duty to Supplant a Negligent Parent Read More »
The residential landlord-tenant relationship in Minnesota is heavily regulated, and oftentimes in favor of tenants. Still, this most recent legislative session resulted in an unusually large number of changes to Minnesota’s landlord-tenant statutes, many of which have important implications for …
Many real estate investors in the current market are focusing on properties in foreclosure. Many of these properties are rental properties which were lost by prior investor-owners when the interest rates on the adjustable rate mortgages which financed their investment …
Continuing with our theme of real estate laws whose time has come…and gone…No. 4 on our list is the abandoned property provisions of Minnesota’s landlord-tenant statutes, Minnesota Statutes Chapter 504B. I work with a lot of real estate investors who …
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