{"id":644,"date":"2016-03-14T22:34:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T03:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roneyknupp.com\/?p=644"},"modified":"2016-03-14T22:35:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T03:35:06","slug":"act-176-landlord-tenant-laws-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roneyknupp.com\/act-176-landlord-tenant-laws-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Act 176 &#8211; New landlord tenant laws go into effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2015 Act 176, which went into effect on March 2, 2016, makes significant changes to landlord-tenant law in the State of Wisconsin. \u00a0One of the most significant changes will make it less difficult for a landlord to evict\u00a0a tenant who the landlord believes is engaging in criminal and\/or drug-related activity. \u00a0In those circumstances, a landlord will now be able to serve\u00a0the offending tenant with a\u00a0<strong>non-curable<\/strong> <strong>5 day notice<\/strong> to vacate regardless of what type of lease that tenant is under.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, if a tenant was under a <em>specified lease term<\/em>, a landlord had to start with a <strong>curable\u00a05 day notice<\/strong>. \u00a0Then, assuming the tenant\u00a0did not get caught breaking the law again within the 5 days, a\u00a0landlord could graduate to a\u00a0<strong>non-curable<\/strong> <strong>14 day notice.<\/strong> \u00a0In our experience, this led to a lot of confusion, was very difficult for landlords to manage, and it caused a great deal of frustration on both sides. \u00a0 More notices generally means more opportunity for technical mistakes in the drafting or service of the notice. \u00a0And, if there was an\u00a0error in the drafting or serving of the original 5 day notice, it could\u00a0undermine the validity of the subsequent 14 day notice, and any eviction based on that 14 day notice \u00a0That infuriating situation will be much less common moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind that, regardless of these changes, the 5 day notice only terminates the tenancy\u00a0on paper. \u00a0To enforce the termination, a landlord will still have to file an eviction action in small claims court, and the tenant will still have the opportunity to challenge the merits and service of the non-curable 5 day notice. \u00a0So, as always, careful documentation of the problem is critical.<\/p>\n<p>To read more about this subject, see the article below, as well as Attorney Tristan Pettit&#8217;s excellent blog post on the subject.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fox6now.com\/2016\/02\/29\/581825\/\">Governor Scott Walker signs 46 bills into&nbsp;law<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/petriestocking.com\/blog\/landlord-tenant\/act-176-governor-signs-new-landlord-tenant-bill-into-law\">ACT 176: Governor Signs New Landlord-Tenant Bill Into Law<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 Act 176, which went into effect on March 2, 2016, makes significant changes to landlord-tenant law in the State of Wisconsin. \u00a0One of the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10,6],"tags":[12,14],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eviction-landlord-tenant","category-landlord-tenant","category-news","tag-eviction","tag-landlord"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Act 176 - New landlord tenant laws go into effect - Roney &amp; 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