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I will expound a little on Puma's comments about the landlord tenant laws. In my neighborhood we used to have a guy who lived two doors down from us that was constantly throwing loud drunken parties in his front yard at all hours of the morning. We would go over and ask him politely to quiet it down and his response would range from no response at all to trying to get us to fight him. After about the third time I had called the cops on this hillbilly, I caught the RO as he was leaving and asked to talk to him. I knew the house was a rental and we had written his landlord to see if they could do anything, but got no response. The RO told me that while the landlord/tenant laws in Oregon weighed very heavily on the side of the tenant we could place pressure on the landlord by calling the police and asking for an officer to respond EVERY SINGLE TIME this guy was causing a problem in the neighborhood. I forget what frequency he mentioned, but he said that if his PD (Hillsboro) got more than X number of disturbance calls in a certain period of time, the city would start billing the landlord for every call they had to respond to at that address. This gave the landlord all the ammunition he needed to evict. We had him out of there in one year.