For fiscal conservatives and free market advocates, the national elections in 2008 and 2012 brought no small measure of disappointment. In its eight-year run, the Obama Administration imposed a host of new taxes – including several as part of the failed “Affordable Care Act” – and, just as egregious, nearly doubling the national debt from…
If you’ve missed some of the prior articles, basic guidelines on successful investing are in my book “Stairway to Wealth” available at www.LuLu.com. Continued from Part 16: Emily saw buildings as other people saw employees. She realized that every investment she owned had to pay its own way. She would work with a troubled building…
Many communal living centers have a crucial problem that many board members and managers never come up with a solution for – A problem that everyone knows will cost the treasury some tens of thousands of dollars for something that doesn’t seem at first like a necessary or urgent investment. The image that a communal…
Thousands of investors who bought and held San Diego County apartments became and remained millionaires. Apartments have proved to be safer than other investments. Fortunes were made and lost in businesses, stocks, precious metals, bonds, industrial and retail investments. If you don’t own apartments, they may not seem glamorous. Yet like the tortoise, they have…
Question One: I have a tenant who just purchased an electric vehicle. She is requiring that I install an electric charging station in the garage. Am I required to do this?
Here we are [into March already.] Which brings up the question, what are you going to accomplish? Do you goal plan, establish resolutions or just hope for the best and try to dodge and weave your way through it? For some folks, the last option is their method of choice and it serves them best.…
Hello Everybody. My discussion this month examines the difference between the acquisition of title to another’s land by adverse possession and acquisition of title to another’s land by a prescriptive easement. Judging from the numerous letters and telephone calls I have received from AOA members over recent years, it is a troublesome issue to many. …
It’s that time of year when drive by traffic can slow down as one gray, rainy day blends into another. Occasional sun breaks do little to brighten up your community, but rather expose areas with built up dirt and left over dead leaves. In some neighborhoods dense with apartment buildings, there is nothing to separate…
These gems are gained from 23 years of experience in representing business and property owners on the front lines of hard ball commercial litigation practice:
Q: This is my first time renting out my residential unit. The late fee provision in my lease allows me to charge a percentage of the rent or a flat fee. How much can I charge for the late fee?