3 rules for unincorporated Saginaw County, Michigan.
Verified from official government sources
Rent control is illegal everywhere in Saginaw County. Michigan's rent-control preemption law (MCL 123.411) bars every local government — the county, the City of Saginaw, Saginaw Township, and Frankenmuth — from capping rent. Landlords set and raise rent at market.
MCL 123.411(2)
a local governmental unit shall not enact, maintain, or enforce an ordinance or resolution that would have the effect of controlling the amount of rent charged for leasing private residential property.
Michigan has no just-cause eviction law, and no Saginaw County community adds one. A landlord gives proper written notice, then must win a judgment in the 70th District Court to remove a tenant. Security deposits are capped at 1-1/2 months' rent.
MCL 554.602
A security deposit shall be required and maintained in accordance with the terms of this act and shall not exceed 1-1/2 months' rent.
The unincorporated county runs no rental registry, but its cities do. The City of Saginaw — with its older housing stock — requires every non-owner-occupied rental to register and pass a housing-code inspection before it can be rented. Saginaw Charter Township licenses rentals too.
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