Letter Sent to the Mayor on the Trash Monopoly

January 12, 2018 Mayor Eric Garcetti City Hall 200 N. Spring Street Los Angeles, CA  90012 Mayor Garcetti: Enclosed is the January issue of the Apartment Owners Association News.  Over 100,000 copies are mailed out each month to housing providers and other businesses.  As you can see by the cover, this new trash contract has…

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Letters to the Editor

Dear Dan: We are so pleased to be members of AOA – attending seminars, going to the Convention Center in Long Beach and utilizing the web site. This morning, for the first time, (I am pretty old-school!), I used the online forms to give a 60-day notice for a rent increase. Thank you!  It was…

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Evicting Grandma – by Zachary Lawrence JD

There are situations in life when a landlord is presented with a problem to solve and the choices for solving the problem are all lousy. A Florida woman was arrested just days before her 94th birthday, when she refused to leave her home after being evicted, police said. As of this writing, the woman remains held…

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Your Privilege Not to Testify – by Dale Alberstone, Esq.

Hello everybody.  From what I have observed over the decades, most apartment owners are law abiding investors who endeavor to conduct their business ethically and with integrity.  Indeed, they have too much to lose to intentionally violate the myriad of federal, state and local laws that apply to residential income property. However, occasionally some transgressions…

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California – a State of Unintended Consequences – by Jon Coupal, President of Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association

California is notorious for enacting laws that result in outcomes precisely opposite of what the law was designed to address. Think of trying to cure obesity by prescribing donuts. Let’s start with high-speed rail (HSR). One of the “problems” HSR is supposed to address is climate change. The theory is that the rail project will…

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