OSTA: Empowering Park & Marina Residents
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OSTA: Empowering Park & Marina Residents
OSTA Update: Conference Countdown,HB 3054 Rent Increase Clarifications
Navigating Oregon's tenant protection laws just got easier with this essential update from Bill Bateman and the Oregon State Tenants Association (OSTA) team. We tackle the two questions flooding our inbox: Yes, the OSTA conference is definitely happening, and yes, tickets are still available—though we're already 50% sold out!
Mark your calendars for this information-packed event featuring Representative Pam Marsh as our opening speaker, followed by expert-led workshops designed specifically for manufactured home and marina residents. Doors open at 10:30 AM with coffee and cookies, and the program kicks off at 11:00 AM. We've carefully structured our Q&A session to ensure everyone's most pressing questions get answered, not just those from the loudest voices in the room.
The heart of today's update addresses widespread confusion about HB 3054 and its impact on rent increases. We break down exactly when the new 6% rent cap takes effect (January 2026 for parks with 30+ spaces), while smaller communities maintain their 7% plus CPI cap with a 10% maximum. Through a real-world example from a Salem-area park, we illustrate why landlords cannot issue notices now for 10% increases effective January 2026—and what penalties they might face for trying. We also share a crucial warning about automatic rent payments that could leave you fighting to recover funds if your landlord attempts to collect an illegal increase.
Don't miss this opportunity to get informed about your rights! Secure your conference ticket through our website today, review the full text of these regulations, and join us as we continue advocating for fair housing practices across Oregon. Remember: understanding your rights is the first step toward protecting them.
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Well, hi everybody. It's September the 10th and, as promised, I have another OSTA update. Hello everybody, I'm Bill Bateman, part of the team at the Oregon State Tenants Association, or OSTA as we like to call it. Got a lot of questions to answer for you, and the one I seem to be getting the most is is the conference happening? Yes, yes, it is. And the second most asked question are tickets still available? Yes, yes, they are. We're about 50% sold out, which, at this point, is a pretty good place to be. You still can order tickets and I'm going to put the link both on the website. You can go to the website and snag a ticket there, or at the bottom of the login for this podcast there'll be a link. You click it. You get your ticket Pops into your inbox. Problem resolved. You're no longer one of those people who may end up in the parking lot peering through one of the windows Not a good place to be, especially if it rains. So order those tickets today.
Speaker 1:We look forward to seeing you. The agenda has come together quite nicely. We are full of speakers and workshop panelists, and opening is going to be Representative Pam Marsh. We're really appreciative of her coming by taking time out of a busy, busy schedule and we'll look forward to seeing our good friend Pam Marsh, and we've got a whole list of individuals that is going to be posted on the website. As we get an opportunity to do that. We're going to have workshops. It's going to open. The doors will open at 1030, you can check in, get some cookies, get some coffee, that type of thing, and the whole thing, after some opening remarks, begins about 11, 1110. So we look forward to seeing you.
Speaker 1:As mentioned, we have lunch, we're going to have a Q&A section and we do want to give a disclaimer at the very beginning of this. This is not a substitution for legal advice. We're not giving you formal legal advice. These are opinions and information based on what we have available. As always, in any situation involving a serious matter, such as litigation, you should speak to an attorney. Now, the way we're going to do the Q&A, so it's fair to everybody.
Speaker 1:I've been to a couple of gatherings in the past not one of ours, but there were like five people who wanted to ask a thousand questions and kind of hogged the whole microphone for the whole time and a lot of people went away kind of angry. So that's not the way we're going to do it. We want everybody's questions to be heard, and the way to do that or at least the most popular questions to be heard and the way to do that or at least the most popular questions to be heard is have people write them down, submit them, and then we're going to take the most common or the most popular question I'm not quite sure how to phrase that Going to take the most repeated questions and get those informational pieces out to you. There'll be also links and there'll be also subsequent information available and handouts, so we hope everybody goes home at least pointed in the correct direction. And really that's what Osta is all about. We're not here to give legal advice. We're here to help you make good decisions on things coming up in your life. Come on to the conference, get learned up, as I like to say, and here are some good things from people who know the right answer. Get those questions in early and we will answer as many as we can. There will also be prizes drawn and we'll even have a little bit mingling time at the end. So we hope to see you there. Tickets available, good seats yeah, let's see what's coming up next.
Speaker 1:We have had also a lot of questions on HB 3054. There's been a lot of confusion and in some cases contention on when this measure takes effect. So to alleviate that, here's the most recent information. It reads HB 3054 does not provide that all rent increases go into effect after September 1, 2025, are going to be subject to a 6% cap Instead. Hb 3054, which has an effective date of September 1st, requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to calculate rent increases for January 1st 2026 and each subsequent year at no more than 6%, and this is for parks and marinas with 30 or more spaces or slips. And for parks or marinas with 30 or fewer spaces and slips it will remain at 7% plus the CPI, with a maximum of 10%. And we're not going to know that number until September 30th. And here's a proviso so long as the rent has not been raised in the previous 12 months.
Speaker 1:Okay, I can see how this can be confusing, so let's take a look at a real life example. An host member wrote in concerned they got a rent increase notice from a park in the Salem area. They got that in mid-September and the rent notice proposes to increase the rent by 10%, effective January 1, 2026. They ask is that legal? Can they do that? No, it's not. It would violate HB 3054 and ORS 90-324-1, subsection A, as amended, because the increase would be effective in 2026. Now the landlord could have used August 31st notice to raise the rent by 10% effective December 1st, which would have satisfied the necessary 90-day notice requirement. But in looking it over, the landlord did not do that and instead chose January 1st of 26, because it last raised the rent on January 1st of 2025 and the law limits rent increases to once every 12 months. So, simply put, the answer is no. This notice violates Oregon law.
Speaker 1:As we've stated in previous questions, there can be a three-month rent penalty for violations of ORS 93241. And for reference, you can look at Section 90-601, subsection C. A tenant in the park would have a valid claim for the penalty if the landlord actually does charge the higher rent in January of 26. Now it's essential to note that just getting a notice does not initiate a claim. One attorney also suggested that if he were a tenant, he would simply not pay the increased amount. No letter to the landlord, no response at all, and if the landlord tries to evict, he would counterclaim for the three-month rent penalty.
Speaker 1:It is important to point out. If you do choose to get into that type of situation, you should pay the existing rent on time and in the manner prescribed by your lease. Related to this issue is something we talked about last time. In one of the more recent OSTA updates it has been suggested it's not a good idea to have your rent automatically deducted. And here's the situation that this could be a problem. If this park in Salem you were set up for an automatic rent deduction from your checking account, the landlord could, in theory, deduct the new unlawful rent amount and you'd have to go through all kinds of hoops to get that money back. So do pay your rent on time, do pay it in the manner prescribed by your lease and a lot of people are thinking maybe I'm not going to do it from my checking account automatically, like I do my car payment and my car insurance, and that's a choice you have to make, but it's a consideration that is valid.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's everything for this week, for September the 10th A lot of information and a lot of subsections and sections. We're going to be posting this. If it's not already there, it should be on the website the Osta website very quickly, the Osta website very quickly and I will have the link in the front where you come in here, to the podcast for buying existing tickets. So the full text of this, what I just read, is available on the website. And, as with anything, when you're dealing with money and you're dealing with legislation, it's good to read it twice before you act. Make sure you have the good information to keep you on the right path. That's it. See you at the conference. Stay safe, stay warm or stay dry, depending on where you're living. It's raining here right now, so have a good day. We'll see you at the conference.
