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Tenants in Milwaukee County could reduce their rent payments for specific housing defects — $500 if the only toilet doesn't work for a week — without fear of eviction, as part of a proposal by SupervisorMarina Dimitrijevic. Although a state law allows rent adjustments for major health and safety concerns, the statute does not ...

From Tristan's Landlord-Tenant Law Blog A panel tasked with providing guidance to the Director of State Courts has recommended that certain information on Wisconsin's Circuit Court Access site (often referred to as CCAP) should be removed in certain situations. The recommendations made include: Any felony charges brought against a pers...

Governor Scott Walker has submitted the biennial budget bill to the Wisconsin legislature. The bill reference is AB 64 and SB 30. As usual, it's a huge document -- over 900 pages. One item of particular interest to rental property owners is the repeal of Wisconsin statute sec. 101.122, commonly known as the weatherization provision, which...

As a landlord, are you aware that landlords are no longer allowed to consider a rental applicant's arrest record during the screening process? Did you know that landlords are no longer able to have blanket screening criteria which deny rental applicants that have had criminal convictions in the past? Sad, but true. In April of 2016, ...

Last updated on November 8, 2016 by Lucas Hall, https://www.landlordology.com This article summarizes some key Wisconsin Landlord-Tenant laws applicable to residential rental units. We’ve used the Official State Statutes and other online sources cited below to research this information and it should be a good starting point in...

Statement from Alderman Bob Donovan - April 22, 2015 I cannot imagine what it would be like to close a longstanding family-owned business because of out-of- control crime. But that’s exactly what Tony Pipito, owner of Mama Mia’s pizza restaurant, 7718 W. Burleigh St., did earlier this week. The closing means 37 people &nda...

Dear Landlord Partners, The UWM Neighborhood Housing Office invites you to participate in our 16th Annual Housing Fair on Friday, May 8, 2015 from 10:00AM-3:00PM.   We expect over six hundred students to visit this annual event in order to meet local landlords and property managers during their search for off-campus housing. The NH...

From Tim Ballering [WIRentalCoalition] .... From 1/1/14 to 2/28/15 there were 15,971 evictions in Milwaukee County > > 63 of these cases a judge sealed the case, hiding the defendant’s name. We had a small claims, non eviction case, sealed last fall for no valid reason other than the defendant, who we got judgment against, ...