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HOUSE BILL NO. 6086
A bill to provide tenants with the first opportunity to
purchase certain rental properties from landlords.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1. This act may be cited as the "tenant opportunity to 1
purchase act". 2
Sec. 3. As used in this act: 3
(a) "Bona fide offer of sale" means an offer of sale for a 4
rental property that meets any of the following conditions: 5
(i) Is for a price and other material terms that are at least 6
as favorable as those accepted by a purchaser in an arm's-length 7
June 16, 2026, Introduced by Reps. Dievendorf, Wegela, Byrnes, Price, Weiss, McKinney,
MacDonell, Pohutsky, B. Carter, Rheingans, Myers -Phillips, Tsernoglou, Wilson and Coffia
and referred to Committee on Government Operations.
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third-party contract. 1
(ii) In the absence of an arm's-length third-party contract, is 2
an offer of sale with a price and other material terms comparable 3
to that at which a willing seller and a willing buyer would sell 4
and purchase the rental property, or the appraised value. 5
(b) "Rental property" means any real property that contains 6
one or more rental units. Rental property includes an apartment 7
unit, a boardinghouse, a rooming house, and a single- or multiple-8
family dwelling. Rental property does not include a hotel, motel, 9
motor home, or other tourist accommodation, when used as a 10
temporary accommodation for guests or tourists, or premises used as 11
the principal place of residence of the owner and rented 12
occasionally during temporary absences, including vacation or 13
sabbatical leave. 14
(c) "Rental unit" means a structure or part of a structure 15
used as a home, residence, or sleeping unit by a single person or 16
household unit, or any grounds, or other facilities or area 17
promised for the use of a residential tenant. 18
(d) "Sale" or "sell" means the transfer in exchange, in 19
exchange for money or other thing of economic value, of a present 20
interest in the rental property, including beneficial use, whether 21
the value of the present interest is the fee interest in the rental 22
property or substantially equal to the value of that fee interest. 23
(e) "Tenant" means a person that occupies a rental unit for 24
residential purposes with the landlord's consent for an agreed-upon 25
consideration. 26
(f) "Tenant association" means an association, corporation, or 27
other organization that represents at least a majority of the 28
tenants in the rental property. A tenant association includes a 29
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housing cooperative. For purposes of this act, a tenant association 1
does not include an association, corporation, or other organization 2
organized by the owner of the rental property. 3
Sec. 5. Beginning on the effective date of this act, before an 4
owner of a rental property offers the rental property for sale, 5
sells the rental property, solicits any offer to purchase from or 6
accepts any unsolicited offer to purchase from any third-party 7
purchaser, or issues a notice to vacate for purposes of demolition 8
or discontinuance of housing use, the owner of the rental property 9
shall first give the tenants of the rental property or tenant 10
association an opportunity to purchase the rental property at a 11
price and terms that represent a bona fide offer of sale. 12