<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Kaitlyn, there are many professional (non and for-profit) operators of SLEs out there. Perhaps clients should sell to one of them. Also, if by any chance the church used a proper SLE lease, which in some jurisdictions explicitly exempts the arrangement from the landlord-tenant statute, there may be an opening there. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 2, 2020, at 1:15 PM, Inge Fordham <<a href="mailto:inge@fordhamlegal.com" class="">inge@fordhamlegal.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Kaitlyn,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I agree with your analysis. The proclamation prohibits actions requiring a resident or tenant to vacate, seeking to enforce or threatening to seek or enforce any such action, increasing rent, charging late fees, retaliating against tenants, etc. As I read the proclamation, it does not prohibit renegotiating the terms of the lease (provided the rate of rent remains the same and there are no penalties being assessed for nonpayment of rent or late rent), or even terminating a lease (absent eviction) and entering into a new lease. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">My sense is that your client could terminate the lease with the church (because no one is being evicted) and enter into separate lease agreements with the tenants or hire a property manager (which is essentially the role the church is currently playing). I’m not sure the church has any legal basis to fight the termination of the lease under the circumstances as you described them below, provided no tenants are being evicted and you follow the termination provisions of the lease. <o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Best regards,<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td width="60" valign="top" style="width: 45pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times;" class=""><span id="cid:image001.png@01D65072.DD2AECC0"><image001.png></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></td><td width="570" valign="top" style="width: 427.25pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; color: rgb(32, 56, 100);" class="">Inge A. 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The Agreement allows the Church to rent the property to up to 10 individuals as clean and sober housing. The original owners have died and their children are now the owners or the property. The Church still pays the rent but the new owners don't like the way the property is being managed and want to terminate their agreement with the Church but KEEP all the "subtenants" living there. The pastors of the church do not live on the property. No one from the Church does. One of the pastors has disappeared and is suspected to be in prison because he was allegedly selling drugs to the clean and sober tenants. The new owners have spoken to the remaining pastor about terminating the lease agreement but that pastor cited Proclamation 20-19.2. I'm not sure but I think Proclamation 20-19.2 may only protect terminating tenancy "requiring a resident to vacate." I don't think the termination of this particular type of arrangement requires a "resident" to vacate since the new owners don't want any of the residents to vacate but to terminate the contract with the Church. <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">My instinct here is to just write a letter and offer a resolution to buy out the Church. But if the pastor won't agree - I wonder if there's a more creative solution. <br clear="all" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);" class="">Thank you,</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><br class=""></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">K</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">aitlyn</span><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">R. 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