Factors Considered Under
Inherent Authority
At Home Apartments, LLC v. D.B., 2019 WL
178509 (Minn. Ct. App. Jan. 14, 2019)
(Connolly, J., concurring).
• “Whether any backed-rent is owed, how
must is owed, and if there is a payment
plan in place – though I do not believe that
an expungement should be automatically
denied solely because nay rent owing has
not been paid,”
• Tenant’s eviction history,
• Reason for non-payment,
• Length of time since the last eviction,
• Was there a material breach of lease,
• Number of evictions with the same
landlord; and
• The term of the lease.
Minneapolis Public Housing Authority v.
REDACTED, No. 27-CV-HC-13-4766 (Minn.
Dist. Ct. June 2, 2014).
• How long the tenant resided at the
premises;
• The tenant’s history of timely rent
payments;
• The tenant’s reason for any failures to
make timely rent payments;
• Whether there have been other evictions
filed against the tenant; or
• Any injustices that may arise from the
housing market’s treatment of the eviction
record.