Rental Housing Journal Utah
2. President’s Message – Making 2016 A Great Success
January 2016 - Vol. 8 Issue 1
4. Ask the Attorney – Serving An Eviction Notice
3. Director’s Message – Suggested Goals for Rental Owners and Operators
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Change Your Behaviors to Become a More Inspiring Leader In 2016 Behavioral Strategist Offers 4 Tips For Broadening Your Mind And Your Leadership Skills
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abits can be a trap for people in leadership positions – whether they are in business, politics or another field. As leaders, they should provide a compelling vision that inspires those around them. Instead, many of them lapse into automatic and mindless thinking. And that can affect every decision they make – and the actions of the people who report to them. “Too often, we don’t come up with imaginative solutions because we let ourselves be ruled by routine
Re-instated Salt Lake City Inspection Program What you should know By L. Paul Smith, UAA Executive Director
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ost owners and managers of rental property in Salt Lake City are likely aware that for the past year and a half there has been an informal agreement with the city attorneys that landlords who refused inspections would not be penalized while the city and the industry worked towards a mutually acceptable inspection program. Starting January 1, owners and managers need to allow inspections under the terms
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eliminated the authority Salt Lake City had to inspect rentals every 3 years, as they had done. For the first two years, the administration continued on page 5
Teaching Renters Their Rights the contract. Tenants have specific “remedies” when their landlord is not in compliance with the contract or state law. There are three types of notices renters are to use if landlords aren’t in compliance. Let’s go through those three notices and the remedies tenants have if landlords don’t take action in the appropriate time frame.
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of a negotiated agreement worked out between Salt Lake City and the UAA. The UAA’s position was that the law change four years ago to “cause and compliant” based inspections
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very rental owner or manager knows someone who is a renter and understanding how to advise them when they have a problems with their landlord will help you be a better one yourself.
Three kinds of tenant notices
In Utah, we have a state Fit The three types of tenant notices Premise Act which is a fair law that under the fit premises act are: outlines duties, responsibilities 1. Three day notice of deficient and remedies for landlords and condition tenants. It gives both landlords and tenants tools to use when the othcontinued on page 3 er is out of compliance with law or
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