Outsider:  As a long-time landlord, I very much agree with you.  HB2004 would promote a adversarial relationship between landlords and tenants.  It would, to use a parallel, be like repealing "no-cause" or "no-fault" divorces.  It forces an FED process which defines someone as the "good"guy/girl and the "bad" guy/girl.  Should it become law, I will no longer rent to anyone on a "month-to-month" basis and will require at least a one-year lease with very clear termination/renewal provisions.  As you say, HB2004 and its cousin "rent control" will not advance the cause of "affordable housing" or make life easier for working-class renters.  Instead, it will have the opposite impact.  Mr. Wig takes a "bully's" approach to tenant/landlord relations.  Such an approach is usually counterproductive.   regards, Gary Crum