Nebraska Legislature Bill LB 587
- sarahcooper402
- Feb 14
- 3 min read
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About LB 587:
Change provisions relating to tenants' remedies under the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act
LB587 has many details, but allows a tenant to notify you of specific issues and if the property owner does not make the ‘adequate’ repairs in 7 days, the tenant can terminate your lease in 14 days. The details inside LB587 are bad for Single Family Rentals, but a nightmare scenario for any Multi-Family housing providers.
LB587 “Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act… to change deadlines for termination of a rental agreement due to noncompliance by a landlord; to provide for and change tenant remedies relating to a landlord's failure to maintain a dwelling unit or essential services…”
“… landlord's noncompliance and deduct their actual and reasonable costs from the rent”
“Recover damages based on diminution in value of the tenant's personal property as a result of deliberate or negligent noncompliance or conduct by the landlord”
“tenant is excused from paying rent for the period of the landlord's noncompliance”
Public Hearing:
Thursday, February 20th, 2025 at 1:30pm
Room 1525
What Can You Do?
Please use the following link to SUBMIT COMMENTS ONLINE FOR LB 587 and leave your comment for the Judicial Committee to express your OPPOSITION for LB 587 (see below for link)
MUST SUBMIT BY THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20th BY 8:00am
Suggested Text:
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"I oppose LB587 as this bill will cause undue harm to me as a rental housing provider. By reducing the time a rental housing provider has to remedy an issue for which the tenant has notified the owner will increase direct maintenance expenses and other aspects of overhead costs to operate each rental unit. It is clearly unfair to allow the tenant 14 days to remedy a breach of the lease on their part but halve the time to 7 days for an owner to do the same. Additionally, 7 days to fix a problem is many times unrealistic. In an emergency we will get the first company available to fix a problem, but if not an emergency we often get bids from several companies to research and find the best long term solution to fit the need. This bill gives an unreasonably short timetable for the landlord to run the business. Unfortunately a major problem with a building will likely require permitting and will likely take longer than 7 days to find a city approved, licensed contractor to make repairs; this is holding the landlord to an unreasonable standard.
Adding pest infestation and mold issues to the list of owner only responsibilities is unfair as these issues are typically caused by tenants. Mold is often found where a water leak is not reported by the tenant and the mold is allowed to grow until it becomes harmful. The owner should not be punished when the problem could have been easily prevented if the tenants would have reported it as required in the lease terms. Laws already exist if mold and pest infestations are caused by the property owner.
If LB587 passes tenants could attempt to remedy pest infestations (poison) and cause greater harm to themselves, their family or pets and others living nearby in the process. We use professionals with solutions to best solve the issue for the protection of all our tenants and our property. Please reject LB587."
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