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New 1099 Law Will Greatly Affect Landlords In 2011
Posted by Tristan R. Pettit, Esq. in Legislation, 1099's, Employee vs. Independent Contractor, Taxes / Comments
A new federal will greatly affect how landlords do business in 2011.In September 2010, a small provision affecting landlord was tucked into the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010, which has now become a subject of concern to many of us. Not only will this new law create a lot of additional paperwork for landlords, but it may open up Pandora’s Box should you be audited.The new law requires all ...
Read MoreDon't Miss Landlord Boot Camp on February 26th!
Posted by Tristan R. Pettit, Esq. in AASEW, Seminars / Comments
The Apartment Association of Southeastern Wisconsin's (AASEW) will be offering its third annual Landlord Boot Camp on Saturday, February 26, 2011 from 8:30 am - 5:30 pm. Learn everything that you need to know about Landlord-Tenant law in Wisconsin at this all-day seminar.Yours truly will be the presenter and I will be addressing the following topics: - Screening Rental Applicants- Written Screening Criteria- Fair Housing (Discrimination) law- Rental Documents (Rental Agreements, Nonstandard ...
Read MoreNew Carbon Monoxide Detector Notice Forms Available at Wisconsin Legal Blank
Posted by Tristan R. Pettit, Esq. in Carbon Monoxide Detectors / Comments
As I mentioned in my previous post, as of February 1, 2011 a new Wisconsin law requiring owners of single family and two-family properties throughout Wisconsin (including owner-occupied properties) went into effect.In light of this new law, I have drafted a new Carbon Monoxide Detector Notice form that landlords can give to their tenant's that explains the new law and provides both the tenant and the landlord with notice as ...
Read MoreNotices Available To Landlords In Residential Tenancies
Posted by Tristan R. Pettit, Esq. in Notices / Comments
There are several types of notices that a landlord can serve on a tenant when a landlord wishes to terminate the tenancy or when a tenant commits a breach of their residential rental agreement. Most of these notices can be used in both periodic tenancies -- like a month to month -- and a lease for term -- like a 12 month lease -- but under different situations. But there ...
Read MoreTo "Walkthrough" or Not To "Walkthrough" That Is The Question
Posted by Tristan R. Pettit, Esq. in Tenant Damage, Walkthroughs / Comments
At the end of a tenancy a tenant or a landlord often requests a walkthrough of the rental unit prior to turning in the keys and delivering possession of the unit back to the landlord. A walkthrough is just that --- the tenant and the landlord walk through the rental unit and make observations of the condition of the unit. It is at this time that a landlord may point ...
Read MoreRejecting A Rental Applicant: The Do's and Dont's
Posted by Tristan R. Pettit, Esq. in Screening Tenants, Fair Credit Reporting Act, Rejecting Rental Applicants / Comments
UPDATE - APRIL 15, 2016 ---- Please review my April 15, 2016 blog post on HUD's new guidance regarding the consideration of a rental applicant's criminal history in the screening process as it may impact or alter the information in this blog post.Let's face it, most landlords would prefer to never have to reject a rental applicant. It would be great if every application that we received from ...
Read MoreDon't Miss DR. RENT at AASEW's Next Meeting on Monday, January 17th!!
Posted by Tristan R. Pettit, Esq. in AASEW, Seminars / Comments
On Monday, January 17, 2011 at 7 p.m., John "Dr. Rent" Fischer will be the featured speaker at the AASEW's February membership meeting. John will be presenting his most requested seminar entitled "Top Ten Mistakes That Landlords Make." The meeting will be held at the Best Western Midway Hotel which is located at 1005 S. Moorland Road in Brookfield.Besides, being a blogging buddy of mine --- John's blog is ...
Read MoreA Landlord's Primer on "Reasonable Accommodations"
Posted by Tristan R. Pettit, Esq. in Fair Housing / Discrimination, Reasonable Accommodations / Comments
I am seeing an increase in tenants making "reasonable accommodations" requests during their tenancy. While similar to "reasonable modifications," which I blogged about a few weeks ago, reasonable accommodations are different.A reasonable accommodation request is one in which a tenant who has a disability asks his/her landlord to make an accomodation to the landlord's rules, policies, practices or services as a result of that disability. Wisconsin's ...
Read MoreCarbon Monoxide Detector Law for Single Family Homes and Duplexes To Take Effect Feb. 1st
Posted by Tristan R. Pettit, Esq. in Carbon Monoxide Detectors / Comments
The new state law requiring that carbon monoxide detectors be installed in all single family homes and duplexes takes effect on February 1, 2011. The law requires that a functional CO2 detector be installed in the basement and on each floor (except the attic, garage or storage area) of each property. This law can be found at sec. 101.647 of the Wisconsin Statutes. The only exception to this would be if the building has all-electric heat ...
Read MoreTop 10 New Year's Resolutions for Wisconsin Landlords
Posted by Tristan R. Pettit, Esq. / Comments
About 75% of my law practice involves representing landlords and management companies on issues that they confront on a daily basis (the other 25% involves business and general civil litigation). Devoting such a large segment of my law practice to representing landlords, I have had the opportunity to spend a lot of time with many of you, talk to you, learn from you, and sometimes even notice a few things that if they had been done ...
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