Whether you are a residential rental property owner or a tenant, odds are at some point you are going to encounter a rental inspection ordinance.
Following the housing market crash in 2008, rental inspection ordinances grew...more
9/4/2025
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In Hoffner v Lanctoe, 492 Mich 450, 460-461; 821 NW2d 88 (2012), the Michigan Supreme Court explained that a “possessor of land owes no duty to protect or warn of dangers that are open and obvious because such dangers, by...more