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. The amount of rent to be paid by Anderson subsequently increased to $115 per month.
Bethel argues that its decision to impose separate water and sewer charges was intended to increase revenue, not to control Sargent, Barrett, and Nisbit’s behavior, and is therefore a rent increase. But Be-thel’s June 1999 letter clearly...
...3, permits a procedure of paying withheld rent into court for cases involving a defense that the landlord increased rent or decreased services as a penalty for the tenant’s lawful actions. See footnote 3, swpra.
The parties again disputed the effective date of the rent increase.
“rule changes” from “rent” and “rent increases,” (2) yields an absurd result, and (3) is consistent with the contemporaneous legislative history. See
involved both a change to a utility-billing method and a corresponding rent increase. 2005 WL 1545525, at *2. In the facts and decision sections of our opinion in Schaff,
that Hinckley Square effectively increased her rent despite failing to give a one-rental-
increased his monthly rent payments to $535. On or about December 15, 2005, McGinity
Here, Knight and McGinity agreed to an increase in rent around the summer of
2005. McGinity paid, and Knight accepted, increased rent from that time until November
opinions of the court of appeals are not precedential.”). And because the issue of whether a rent increase constitutes a rule change was not raised, analyzed, or decided, Schaff is not persuasive. Schaff
legal effect; (3) that appellant’s claim for increased rent was denied. Mid Continent appeals this ruling. ISSUE
increasing her rent, effective as of November 1, 2014. Cervene testified that she told the
have increased the monthly rent to $540. McGinity did not sign the new lease but
recognizes that rule changes and rent increases are not synonymous, unlike our approach in Schaff v. Hometown Am., L.L.C., No. A04-1778, 2005 WL 1545525 (Minn.App. July 5, 2005), review denied
From time to time, the parties negotiated and agreed to increases in the rent pursuant to the terms of the lease. On June 18, 1981, appellant sent the parties a letter notifying them of a rent increase to $640 per...
that “[b]y increasing the rent and thus changing the terms of the Original Lease, the
at *4. While we used these terms interchangeably, we never considered or determined whether the rent increase, which was imposed in conjunction with the utility-billing change, would constitute a rule change standing alone. Id.
...Lastly, section 327.10, which governs defenses to eviction, distinguishes between defenses related to failure to pay rent, failure to pay rent increases, and rule violations. Minn.Stat. § 327C.10, subds. 1-3 (2008). A renter may assert, as a...
Bethel argues that the imposition of utility charges constituted a rent increase because it complied with Minn.Stat. § 327C.06, which expressly authorizes *803