Question 1: Any updates on the state rental assistance program that you described in last month’s article? Answer 1: To repeat part of that response, SB 91– christened the Tenant Relief Act – included, in addition to its provisions extending through June the eviction protections to tenants in rent default, a “State Rental Assistance Program”,…
Question One: My tenant issued a 30-day notice to vacate in the middle of the month. My rent is due on the first. On the first day of the following month, can I demand that the tenant pay a full month’s rent and then prorate the balance upon the day she vacates? Answer One: On…
It’s hard to imagine anything more callous than the government sending a giant tax bill to a bereaved family, but thanks to Proposition 19, many California families will have that unfortunate experience. Prop. 19, which passed by a razor-thin margin in the November election, expanded a tax break for some homeowners but repealed an important…
In an effort to increase housing near mass transit hubs, Supervisor Rafael Mandelman is drafting legislation to make it easier to build fourplexes within a half mile of a major MUNI or BART station. Besides new construction of fourplexes, homeowners could legally convert their existing home, at least in theory, into fourplexes. The push for…
Having a written criteria list for your rental applicants is pertinent in your rental business and serves several purposes. By attaching a copy of your rental criteria to each blank application form, you are informing your applicant of a list of conditions that must be met for them to be considered as a future tenant…