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New Orders Ease NH Landlords' Concerns

By Bob Sanders

NH Business Review

Landlords in New Hampshire are able to evict tenants who violate their lease by causing damage to the premises, impacting the health and safety of their fellow tenants, or if they abandon the property. They and homeowners also may be able to put off paying their property taxes.

Gov. Chris Sununu issued the two executive orders –

Nos. 24 and 25 – in part in response to landlords concerned that their hands were tied by Sununu’s order on March 16 (order No. 4) that simply banned all evictions and foreclosures.

They also complained that some tenants viewed the order as an excuse to avoid paying their rent, although the original order did state that they were still under obligation to do so.

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