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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Houle v. Quenneville, 787 A.2d 1258 (2001)

Citation
Houle v. Quenneville, 787 A.2d 1258 (2001)
Parent Document
Houle v. Quenneville, 787 A.2d 1258 (2001)
Jurisdiction
Vermont (state)
Effective Date
2001-11-09

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Tenants first challenge the court's conclusion that landlords were not required to serve VSHA with a contemporaneous notice of their intent not to renew the lease. Tenants assert that neither landlords' April 1, 1999 notice to terminate the tenancy on good cause grounds, nor the September 24, 1999 notice of nonrenewal, was served on VSHA, and therefore, landlords failed to terminate the tenancy as required under the VSHA lease. In the original eviction action precipitated by the April 1, 1999 good cause notice to terminate, tenants failed to allege insufficiency of the notice based on failure to serve a contemporaneous copy on VSHA. At trial, tenants' claim regarding failure to serve a contemporaneous notice on VSHA was limited to the September 24, 1999 notice of nonrenewal. Tenants have waived their claim that the April 1, 1999 notice was insufficient because it was not served on VSHA. See In re M.M., 159 Vt. 41, 44, 613 A.2d 713, 715 (1992) (failure to raise arguments below amounts to a waiver).