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2. Reasonable Steps. For these purposes, "Reasonable Steps" shall include: the maintenance of a waiting list for the Special Needs Units, contacting individuals on the waiting list, the posting of notices on the Project premises, advertisements for a minimum of a two (2) month period in the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Quad Community Press posting circulars at the Lino Lakes Senior Citizens Center and the Project, forwarding circulars to senior citizen groups serving the Lino Lakes community and the Minnesota Council for Independent Living, and utilizing the public housing waiting lists maintained by the Metropolitan Council Housing and Redevelopment Authority and the Lino Lakes Housing and Redevelopment Authority. The Owner shall immediately commence such Reasonable Steps upon its receipt of a tenant's notice to vacate a Special Needs Unit. 3. Failure to a Rent Special Needs Unit to Disabled Individual. In the event the Owner is unable to rent a Special Needs Unit to a Disabled Individual within four (4) months after the actual vacancy of a Special Needs Unit and the Owner has contemporaneously documented all attempts made to rent the vacated Special Needs Unit to a Disabled Individual, the Owner may rent the vacated Special Needs Unit to tenants who do not include a Disabled Individual. 4. Treatment of Special Needs Unit. If all requirements set forth in this section have been satisfied, a Special Needs Unit shall continue to be treated as in compliance with the Restriction and eligible for the low- income housing tax credit, notwithstanding the Owner's rental of the Special Needs Unit to tenants who do not include a Disabled Individual. When a Special Needs Unit becomes vacant once again, the Owner must once again take Reasonable Steps to rent the Special Needs Unit to a Disabled Individual before renting it to tenants who do not include a Disabled Individual. E. Termination of Lease of Special Needs Unit to Non - Disabled Individuals. I. End of First Lease Term. In the event the Owner has rented a Special Needs Unit to tenants who do not include a Disabled Individual pursuant to Sections VI.C.4.b. or VI.D.3., such tenants shall be required to vacate the Special Needs Unit and will have the option to move to a Project unit which is not a Special Needs Unit at the end of the first lease term, if the following conditions are met: a. A vacant non - Special Needs Unit is available for occupancy at the end of such lease term; and, b. The Owner has contacted a Disabled Individual on its waiting list and that Disabled Individual will be able to occupy the Special Needs Unit at the end of such lease term. '. Renewal Leases. After the end of the first lease term, tenants who do not include a Disabled Individual will be required under any renewal agreement to C -5