While we don’t have a next date set yet for the second Marina Issues Subcommittee meeting, there is plenty you can do.
- Spread the word to Floating Home Owners who rent their slips that we exist and we want to hear from them. FHOs interested in joining the email list can email their request to join, along with the name of their moorage, to: rights@floatinghomeowners.com
- Visit www.FloatingHomeOwners.com for events and information you might find useful.
- Next meeting TBD: Once we hear back from the Subcommittee Facilitators about when would be an appropriate time to reconvene as a group, then we will schedule our Floating Home Owners meeting in advance of that.
- Review the list of proposed legislative issues from above and come prepared to participate in the next FHO Tenant-only meeting.
- Organize your marina. Start your own marina tenant association at your moorage so that you can communicate and stay informed with the local happenings at your marina. Look out for one another and be good neighbors.
- Consider starting a Committee of Seven (a group of FHO Tenants who get together to discuss tenant issues with the Marina Landlord) – Oregon Law has created this protected group so that your Landlord must listen to your voices. For more information, search online for “ORS 90.600(5)(a)”
- You might consider gathering some fellow tenants from your marina and pooling together for attorneys fees if you live in a marina that charged fees which might be considered prohibited by law. Then email us what you find out so we can share!
- Form a Marina Purchase Organization and notify your Marina Landlord that you want to be notified if the Marina Owner is considering selling. Meet with your fellow tenants to get an idea of who is interested in purchasing and what funds you might be able to secure for such a purchase. It is typically pretty difficult to get yourself evicted, when you own your slip. Get yourselves ready for that time when the Marina Owner says they are selling. From that moment, you will have about 14 days to make an offer. Do the heavy-lifting required to prepare yourselves to make an offer before the Owner decides to sell. For more information, search online for “ORS 90.805 to 90.830”
- Think about what we might want this group to be in the future and think through what special skills you might like to contribute.
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We are considering making this official and creating a non-profit organization dedicated to Floating Home Owner Tenant issues. Let us know if you have talents or connections or experience with setting up non-profits and just want to be involved. It takes a community to build something like this. We are open to any and all help to get our feet on the ground.
Imagine a day when EVERY Floating Home Owner knows these laws exist to protect them. We are creating something new that has never existed before. We are writing history. There is no stopping us now. Thank you for being a part of this historical movement to protect our rights.