A resident has informed management that they need a reasonable accommodation for the medical use of marijuana – Now what? Are there any scenarios where you can ignore or deny a medical use of marijuana request without processing a reasonable accommodation request? Which types of properties are able to consider this type of request? If…
There have been some major changes and developments in the real estate marketplace recently that have had and may continue to be extremely costly for landlords and apartment owners! The industry is experiencing double digit property insurance rate increases and finding competitive insurance solutions has never been so difficult for apartment owners. The good news…
Lawmakers in blue states like California may prefer to tax the rich, but there’s always a risk: What if the rich just move elsewhere? [Recently], Assemblymember Alex Lee,said he was introducing a new tax on “extreme wealth.” It wasn’t the first time the Milpitas Democrat pushed the idea. But this year, he had back up. …
In most of America, one of the worst impacts of high inflation is a sharp rise in property taxes. But that’s not the case in California. True, housing prices are some of the highest in the nation, due mostly to government policies restricting supply. But homeowners are protected by Proposition 13’s cap on annual increases…
In Alameda County, California, a pandemic-era eviction ban has been in place for almost three years, even though COVID no longer poses the same threat it once did. As a result, “mom and pop” landlords have found themselves losing their livelihoods and dealing with problematic, and sometimes violent, tenants with no way to get rid…