Diane Roberson v. Southwood Manor Associates…

Summary

The court held that Alaska's Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Act does not apply to residential leases. It reasoned that a lease transfers an interest in real property and therefore is a real-property transaction outside the statute's scope, while the legislature's failure to add residential leases and its enactment of a separate landlord-tenant statute supported that interpretation. The court affirmed dismissal of the tenant's UTPA counterclaim.