Recently, while waiting for an event to start, I chatted with the woman sitting next to me; a small property owner. I described SPOSFI and she sniffed, “Why join something like that? We’ve never had any trouble with our rental.” “We’ll be there when you need us,” I replied, as I moved to another chair.
All the President’s Men is a book and a movie about the Watergate scandal and the downfall of President Nixon. In the movie, there’s a scene with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) meeting his anonymous source, “Deep Throat” (Hal Holbrook), inside a dark parking garage. Woodward needed proof that President Nixon knew of the burglary…
DetailsBelow is another letter an apartment owner wrote to Mayor Garcetti regarding the trash monopoly. They included FOUR EXAMPLES of their previous trash invoices and new inflated invoices as proof of how this trash monopoly has been affecting apartment/business owners in Los Angeles!
Below is a letter an apartment owner wrote to Mayor Garcetti and Councilman Bonin regarding the trash monopoly. They included their old invoice, new service rates breakdown and photos as proof of how this trash monopoly has been affecting apartment/business owners in Los Angeles!
Do you know that some housing providers have already received notices from their new City- appointed trash haulers that their rates will be increased by at least 100%?! You should know it – you passed this outrageous law! You even promised us that the rates would be lower. One housing provider just now reported that…
DetailsHello everybody. Let me confess at the outset that I detest the smell of cigarette smoke. I don’t like to be in a room where someone is smoking and I learned as early as high school that I didn’t even like to kiss someone who was a smoker. Still, I am a strong believer in…
DetailsDear Dan: The below letter was sent to Steve Lopez at the Los Angeles Times. Dear Sir: I appreciate that you attempt to be “fair-minded” when you talk about the housing crisis. I remember, as you suggest, that my son, Jeffrey, reminded me that after viewing the feature film, La La Land, Los Angeles would…
DetailsThere’s no way around it: too many Americans are experiencing homelessness. According to the most recent statistics from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), nearly 550,000 people were homeless in this country on a single night in January 2016, and 22 percent of those were children. That 550,000 figure actually represents a 15…
DetailsMy wife, Hinda, who helps me with planning for clients, and I have been lucky enough to meet hundreds of wonderful apartment owners though the AOA seminars we have done throughout California. The majority of them planned ahead years ago and build living trust based estate plans to protect their families. Unfortunately, almost all the…
DetailsQuestion 1: I read you have a new firm name and address. What’s going on? Answer 1: I am pleased to announce that Beckman Blair LLP has joined the esteemed Berkeley firm Buresh, Kaplan, Feller and Chang P.C. and the combined firm will be known as Beckman Feller & Chang P.C. As of August…
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