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| Updated: Feb. 23, 2021, 9:40 p.m.
Over the past several months, Eric Peterson and a team of reporters from the Utah Investigative Journalism Project, have been digging deep real deep into Utah’s eviction laws.
What they’ve found paints a grim picture of a system that is stacked overwhelmingly in favor of landlords with penalties and fees and interest rates charged to renters that can only be described as predatory and abusive.
The work is too exhaustive to summarize, but some highlights of what their investigation revealed include:
• In Utah, renters are only required to receive 72 hours notice before being evicted, the shortest notice in the nation, leaving little time to arrange to move belongings and line up a new place to live;