
MINNEAPOLIS – With 2024 now underway, several new Minnesota laws are in effect.
Among the new housing laws is a requirement that landlords fully disclose non-optional fees in a lease agreement so that applicants have a full scope of what their rental costs look like.
Rachel Sterling is a housing attorney with the Minnesota nonprofit HOME Line. She says unexpected fees have become a problem in the rental market in recent years. She says a classic example is there was a landlord who used to charge what’s called a January fee. She says it was an extra hundred dollars just because it was January.”
There are also tighter restrictions for landlord entry into a rental property. Sterling says owners have the flexibility to set costs for expenses but adds making certain language clear can potentially help tenants avoid eviction.
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