Tippett v. Daly

I cannot agree with the court’s conclusion that in order to protect a tenant’s right to purchase under the District of Columbia Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (“TOPA”), a tenant’s expression of interest in purchasing the property must be received by the owner within the thirty-day period prescribed in the statute, rather than sent by the tenant during that time. The inevitable result of the majority’s conclusion is that a tenant who elects to mail the expression of interest by first-class mail — as is permitted — will necessarily have less than the full thirty days allowed by the statute,…