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2024 Note
Landlord and tenant laws were revised in 2023 and effective in 2024, and in 2024, mostly effective in 2025..
2020-2023
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Residential Eviction Defense and Tenant Claims in Minnesota
By Lawrence McDonough
These are large files, over 600 pages long. The Word file is the smallest, and the PDF file is the largest. You also can view the HTML file on line.
To view or download unpublished decisions discussed in it, you need to go to www.projusticemn.org. After registering (if you have not done so already), go to Civil Law, Library, Housing, and Eviction Defense.
Eviction Answer Forms
Tenancies table
Unpublished Decisions and Reports in Answer Forms (attach if asserting the defense)
Rejected proposal to amend Minn. Gen. R. Prac. 603 to permit
corporations to appear in district court eviction action without
representation by a licensed attorney, citing Nicollet
Restoration, Inc. v. Turnham
Principal and Address Disclosure, Minn. Stat. § 504B.181
Landlord’s Failure to Give Notice as Required by the Lease
Landlord Failed to Disclose Mortgage Foreclosure to a
Prospective Tenant
Rental License Rent Abatement
A material breach goes to the root or essence of the contract,
so substantial and fundamental that it defeats the object of the
parties in entering into the contract, where the injury is
irreparable or where damages would be inadequate or difficult
or impossible to determine
Answer Forms
A0Instructions
A1 Private
September 2024
A2 Manufactured Home Park Lots
November 2023
A3Section 8 Housing Choice and VASH Voucher Tenancies
November 2023
A4HUD Subsidized Projects under Handbook 4350.3
December 2023
A4XHUD Care Programs
December 2023
A5HUD Moderate Rehabilitation Projects
December 2023
A5XHUD HOME Investment Partnerships Program
December 2023
A6Project Based Section 8 Certificates
2019
A6XInternal Revenue Service Low-Income Housing Tax Credit
2019
A7Rural Housing Service Subsidized Housing Projects
November 2023
A7XRural Housing Service Subsidized Housing Projects Receiving
2019
A8Public Housing
November 2023
