Question One: I recently initiated an unlawful detainer against a tenant who had failed to pay his rent. The tenant engaged the services of free public counsel and they have requested a jury. In my lease agreement, it specifically prohibits
Hello everybody. First a bit of trivia: The California Department of Real Estate no longer exists. The DRE has been taken over by the California Department of Consumer Affairs and Consumer Affairs then changed the DRE’s name to the Bureau of Real Estate. Cost savings is the reason
Have you stopped to consider how high your taxes are? If you live in California, you are taxed at a higher rate than nearly any other state. Some say California taxes you for everything. It has some of the steepest sales tax, personal income tax and corporate tax rates in the nation. Jon Coupal…
If you owned property at the beginning of 2013, you have to have a smile on your face today – right? After a near-record price increase in 2013, many headed into 2014 full of consternation. John Burns, who was a delight to
Our “progressive” supervisors and state legislators, with the enthusiastic support of the Mayor, are tripping over themselves to come up with new ways to make life tougher for San Francisco’s housing providers. Hardly had we completed filing our lawsuit against the first Avalos Amendment than we learned of Supervisor Campos’s new bill that greatly increases…
Having rehabbed over 820 properties in the last 18 years and collected over 7,400 apartment units I’m often asked, how can I become wealthier faster investing in real estate? While most investors concentrate on some aspect of single-family houses, I was always interested in multi-units (apartments) first, and then single-family homes as a means of…