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MCRRA 2025 Membership Dues | Cut Off date 3/31/25

If not paid your membership will be cut off 3/31/25. As a reminder, the 2025 membership will now be due. There are many online resources available on the website and the high-risk list is updated often (just recently). If you have already paid you can disregard this email.

Please submit annual $35.00 MCRRA dues to:

MCRRA
PO Box 1161
Mt. Sterling, KY 40353

Make checks payable to MCRRA.

PAPER VERSIONS OF MEMBERSHIP PACKETS WILL BE ON REQUEST ONLY. THEY CAN BE MAILED TO YOU OR YOU CAN PICK THEM UP AT A MEMBER MEETING. PLEASE SEND AN EMAIL TO MCRRA.INC@GMAIL.COM IF YOU WOULD LIKE A PAPER VERSION OR USE THE WEBSITE PORTAL TO REQUEST A COPY.


BOI Report with FinCEN Overview

On December 26, 2024, a different panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an order vacating the Court’s December 23, 2024 order granting a stay of the preliminary injunction. Accordingly, as of December 26, 2024, the injunction issued by the district court in Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. v. Garland is in effect and reporting companies are not currently required to file beneficial ownership information with FinCEN.

  • Reports are voluntary

  • Appeal Update: Oral arguments in the Fifth Circuit won’t be heard until March 25, 2025.

  • Timeline For Judgment: Decision expected around April or May 2025.

  • This could change at any time and become mandatory. Stay up to date.

https://fincen.gov/boi


NEW bills to keep an eye on

House Bill 173
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 preempting local governments from adopting or enforcing ordinances that create a registry of rental properties for enumerated reasons.

Read House Bill 173 >>

House Bill 109
Specify duties of landlord with respect to abandoned personal property.

Read House Bill 109 >>

House Bill 142
define "squatter"; to allow a property owner or his or her authorized agent to request a peace officer to immediately remove any squatter occupying a dwelling or commercial building under certain circumstances; provide criminal and civil immunity to peace officers acting in good faith; amend KRS 512.020 and 512.030 to specifically include damage to residential or commercial property caused by squatters in the offense of criminal mischief; create a new section of KRS Chapter 514 to establish the offense of fraudulent sale or lease of real property.

Read House Bill 142 >>

House Bill 160
Amend KRS 100.348 to prohibit a local government from adopting or enforcing zoning regulations that treat manufactured homes differently from single-family homes; allow only regulation of certain architectural features of manufactured homes and require that those same standards be applied to single family homes; permit placement of manufactured home with smaller dimensions if a larger manufactured home could not be situated on the lot; remove language regarding legislative purpose of statue; add noncodified statement of the intent of the General Assembly.

Read House Bill 160 >>

House Bill 58
Permit a tenant to terminate a lease or rental agreement if he or she is seeking relocation due to a recent mental or physical health emergency; require the tenant to pay any rent due prorated to the effective date of termination; relieve the tenant from liability for any other rent or fees resulting from the termination.

Read House Bill 58 >>


What You Need To File For An Eviction

If you are filing an eviction with the Mt. Sterling Clerks office is asking you to have the following ready to make the new procedure as efficient as possible.

  1. A $81 check made out to the “Montgomery County Circuit Clerk”

  2. A $60 check made out to the “Montgomery County Sheriff”


Stephen Marshall (Landlord Attorney) Updates


MEMBERS ONLY PORTAL

Below you can find all the information you need to be a successful landlord in Montgomery County, Kentucky.


Paper versions of membership packets WILL BE ON REQUEST ONLY. They can be mailed to you or you can pick them up at a member meetings. Please send an email to mcrra.inc@gmail.com if you would like a paper version.