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Lakeshore Law, PLLC Lakeshore Law, PLLC is a law firm in Muskegon, Michigan which provides local solutions to local issu

01/01/2026

Greetings, all. Effective January 1st, 2026, Lakeshore Law is merging with Bowen Hoogstra Law Offices. My new phone number is 231-726-4484, and email is [email protected]. Direct line coming soon!

10/26/2022

In two weeks, voters will select two new judges for Muskegon County's 14th Circuit Court. Lakeshore Law endorses Jenny McNeill and Matt Kacel for those positions.

06/29/2022

It could be worse. I read this morning that a federal court has upheld California's state-wide rent control and relocation assistance statute. In a nutshell, and subject to many exceptions, annual rent increases cannot exceed 5% per year, plus the local rate of inflation, but not to exceed 10%. Moreover, again subject to exceptions, a landlord who evicts a tenant without cause (for example, the termination of a month-to-month tenancy) must pay relocation assistance to the tenant. This amount varies between $8,950 and $22,350. This may explain why my daughter is currently paying $1,500/month to share a single bedroom for her internship in Burbank.

Rent control is one of the best means available to destroy housing stock. It acts as a disincentive to perform maintenance or to create new housing. Why are rents so high? A few things come to mind:

Landlords, especially small ones, lost lots of money during the eviction moratoriums of 2020-2021, as tenants realized they couldn't be evicted for nonpayment of rent. They'd like to make some of that up. Second, many landlords after being burned during the moratoriums now require better credit scores from applicants, thus reducing the "supply," so to speak, of potential tenants. Third, inflation in general, and particularly real estate, with the cost of building materials rising alongside property taxes.

Finally, the Covid Emergency Rental Assistance program ("CERA") ends tomorrow. I currently have about 40 or 50 landlord/tenant lawsuits pending. In many of them, tenants received thousands of dollars in taxpayer lump sum rent assistance back in January and February of 2022, then failed to make any voluntary payments thereafter. That party will soon end.

Address

3224 Glade Street
Muskegon, MI
49444

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 5pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 5pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 5pm
Thursday 8:30am - 5pm
Friday 8:30am - 5pm

Telephone

+12317227766

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