Greater Enfield Landlord Association

04/03/2026

Don't let this bill become law! While well intentioned, for one, it places decision making in the hands of Commissions (Fair Rent) that are NOT currently (State) regulated with regards to their staffing, their authority or the structure of their hearings meaning some (not all) operate with bias, without clear legal process and without transparency.

Furthermore, as written, this bill will stifle the sale and improvement of older homes where rent rates will not support the financing needed by the buyer. The result will be that aging landlords that have kept rents artificially low (because their mortgages were paid off or real low) will not be able to sell their properties and retire because the buyers will not be able to secure bank financing at the low rent rates. Banks will not write the mortgage if rents won't cover the costs! The result will stifle any attempts to rejuvenate a community's aging rental properties.

04/03/2026

Whether you are a landlord or a tenant, and whether or not you personally rely on rental property, you need to know that this bill WILL CAUSE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES that WILL IMPACT RENTAL RATES.
The legislators are trying to address a trend where large rental properties are bought by "corporate landlords" and tenants are forced to leave or else endure large rent increase once their lease expires.
But as written, the bill also blocks many other legitimate needs to let a lease expire to vacate a rental unit. Therefore we CANNOT SUPPORT THIS BILL and everyone should urge our legislators NOT TO PASS THIS BILL!

03/23/2026

CT SB257 is NOT eviction reform! IT IS PROPERTY SEIZURE! Tell Governor Lamont and our legislators that this bill will NOT HELP the housing crisis. Tell them to VOTE NO!

03/16/2026

Let's let them know this Bill is a BAD IDEA!

It forces Landlords into a housing contract that can only be terminated IF the tenant wants it to!!!! As long as the tenant pays rent and doesn't cause major crime or injury, the landlord can never force them to leave once the term of their lease expires!!!! Imagine having the power to stay in your hotel room or an AirBnB as long as you want as long as you pay what you agree is a fair rent! Or never having to turn in the car you rented because you don't feel like changing cars and you'll just pay the rent on this one!

No other business is forced to accept "perpetual" contracts! This is another example of the government taking (by controlling it) private property agains the property owner's rights and without just compensation!

Let's fill this event up with housing providers and let the media know what this Bill really means!

***PRESS ADVISORY***
Tuesday, March 17, 2026
11:00 A.M. - 11:30 A.M. EST

PRESS CONFERENCE: JUST CAUSE ADVANCES—GOVERNOR COMMITS SUPPORT
Who: Lawmakers championing the Just Cause Eviction bill, SB 257, alongside the Connecticut Tenants Union, CT Fair Housing Center, Make the Road CT, and other members of the Just Cause Coalition

We will update this advisory with a speaker list
What: A press conference celebrate the Housing Committee’s approval of SB 257 to expand Just Cause Protections to all renters in 5+ unit apartment buildings and to update on the public on the progress of this year’s bill, including Governor Lamont’s backing

Where: Capitol Building, South Lobby Portico (facing Capitol Ave)

When: Tuesday, March 17, 11:00am

Hartford, CT — Lawmakers and leaders from the state’s tenant movement are celebrating a milestone achievement after the Housing Committee passed SB 257, which will expand Just Cause protections and help stabilize the housing of hundreds of thousands Connecticut residents. Housing Committee co-chairs, Senator Martha Marx and Representative Antonio Felipe, have championed the proposed legislation, and Governor Lamont has recently committed his support.

SB 257, An Act Concerning Evictions for Cause, is a critical protective and preventative measure amidst our state’s ongoing crises of housing affordability, evictions, and homelessness. Currently, without “Just Cause” protections, tenants are routinely subjected to abuses of power by unscrupulous owners. They are likewise subjected to unacceptable levels of precarity, often being forced out of their homes and uprooted from their neighborhoods, towns, and cities because of speculative real estate practices that bake eviction into the business plan. Requiring that evictions be for a reasonable cause is a common-sense tool for raising the standard of living for hundreds of thousands of CT households who rent. SB 257 will expand existing Just Cause protections for disabled and senior renters in larger apartment buildings to cover all tenants in 5+ unit buildings, after the first year of a new renter’s tenancy.

03/16/2026

LANDLORD! Here is a link where you'll find which bills have made it out of the Housing Committee (as of today) and will likely be going for a full vote of the general assembly. There are a number of bills here that are harmful to housing providers and therefore will impact rental housing affordability...this is something many in the majority party in the legislature seems to ignore in favor of pushing more socialist leaning anti-property, anti-business rights laws.

shttps://www.cga.ct.gov/aspx/CGACommBillRecBook/default.aspx?comm_code=hsg

03/07/2026

Had a great meeting on March 4, 2026 GELA meeting with Guest Speaker Ray Steadward, Enfield's Chief Building Official

02/12/2026

GELA is a non-profit, non partisan group of housing providers striving to provide safe, clean and respectable housing through educational and professional development forums inspiring members to better manage their business and promoting legislation that is fair and equitable to both the provider and the resident

Membership is open to any housing provider in the north central CT area.

02/09/2026

CT is suffering a massive HOUSING SHORTAGE! Here is the Meeting Agenda for the CT Legislative Housing Committee which will meet tomorrow 2/10/2026. Other than items #1&9, nothing on this agenda will help reduce the housing shortage and at least 3 items will negatively impact the cost of rental housing and only one might help marginal renters achieve housing. And just what will item #6 allow the homeless to do on public land!? Let's instead focus reducing the cost of providing and maintaining housing so more housing can be built and existing housing can be improved!

02/04/2026

Landlords? Want to network with fellow landlords? Want to get feedback on a problem you are having? Need a reference for a contractor, legal or insurance matters? Reach out to us at the Greater Enfield Landlord Association through this group or the email address on this page. We are a group of local landlords helping landlords, we meet regularly with professionals, have access to great resources and information important to landlords.
Consider joining our private page at Greater Enfield Landlord Association as well!

01/08/2026

Beginning April 1st, all lease/rental agreement documents MUST include a State mandated "Standardized Rental Terms Summary" form as the FIRST page of the document. The document is now available from the State's Dept. of Housing website, along with other pertinent documents you should be aware of. Here is the link to the State's site with the forms:
https://portal.ct.gov/doh/doh/policy-and-research/mandatory-landlord-tenant-forms

Be aware!! If you own a building or mobile home park with five or more units, there is a 2nd MANDATED form on the site that you must use: "Notice To Tenants" form.

The other State documents are a suggested version of a lease and a suggested version of a Pre-Occupancy Checklist form.

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12/05/2025

An open invitation to all landlords. It is time to be heard.