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Cabell Enterprises was formed in the early 1990s to house the consulting,
writing, and teaching businesses of J. Norton Cabell.
Professional Activities
- Consulting:
- Cabell, as principal of Cabell
Enterprises, provides consulting services to landlords throughout
Oregon. His clients include housing authorities, manufactured
dwelling facilities, providers of housing for specialized populations,
affordable housing developers, as well as owners and managers
of conventional properties. For these clients, Cabell provides
one-on-one consulting, and specialized trainings.
Since 2006, Cabell has been Legislative Director for Oregon Rental Housing Association.
- Writing:
- Cabell writes about the property management
industry. His “Question
of the Month” column has been published in the monthly Metro
Apartment Manager since 1996 and he has been a
columnist in the Sunday Oregonian (in the Rentals section) since 2004. He contributes
regularly to Oregon Rental Housing News published by Oregon
Rental Housing Association, and his articles have appeared
in newsletters of a over a dozen local rental housing organizations
throughout Oregon and the northwest. He is the author of
several editions of the Oregon Rental Housing Association
Law Book and three editions of the Oregon Rental Housing Association
Forms Manual. His latest self-published book is Abandoned Property:
A Step-by-Step Guide for Oregon Landlords.
- Teaching:
- Cabell has developed and conducted workshops for
landlords around the state. He is the developer of several
four- and five-hour workshops for the PRO certification program
developed by Oregon Rental Housing Association. Those include “Fair
Housing” and “Section
8 & Other Rental Assistance Programs and Using For-Cause Notices.” Other
popular workshops include “Tenant Screening” and “Evictions.” He
was recently a panelist in a statewide-televised workshop
on “Reasonable
Accommodation” conducted by the Fair Housing Council of Oregon.
- Managing:
- Cabell bought his first rental in the mid
1970s. He moved to Oregon in 1988 and, through Junco Company and
several partnerships, currently owns and manages approximately
75 units in Eugene, Springfield, and Colorado.
Volunteer Activities
Fair Housing Council of Oregon: Director
Intergovernmental Housing Policy Board:
Chair
Oregon Rental Housing Association: Past President and Current Treasurer
Second Chance Renters Rehabilitation Program: Instructor
St. Vincent de Paul Rural Rehabilitation loan committee: Member and
Secretary
Whiteaker Police Substation Neighborhood Advisory Board: Member and
Chair
Oregon Judicial Department, Citizen Review Board: member
Eugene Police Civilian Review Board: member
Background
- Worked, for most of the 1970s and 1980s, as a commercial
banker in New Hampshire, eventually becoming Senior Vice
President and Senior Loan Officer of the Dartmouth National Bank,
a $250 million community bank.
- M.B.A., University of Virginia,
1970.
- A.B., University of the South, 1968, majoring in Economics.
- Attended
Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia, and Lenox
School, in Lenox. Massachusetts.

Some Former Volunteer Activities
- American Canoe Association, vice-commodore and national
instructor-trainer
- American Red Cross, chapter disaster chairman, treasurer, and
canoeing instructor
- Eugene Community Development Block Grant
Advisory Committee, chair
- Friends of the Hopkins Center and
Hood Museum of Art, president
- Mayor’s Parks and Open Space
Committee, member
- New Hampshire Chapter, Appalachian Mountain
Club, treasurer
- Rental Housing Association of Lane County,
vice-president
- St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, treasurer
- St. Vincent de Paul
Society of Lane County, member of several advisory boards
- Oregon Rental Housing Association, president and treasurer

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