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If your building is in one of the nine cities listed below, you must pay interest on the security deposit once a year and at the end of the tenancy.

Starting a property management company is a tough business, plain and simple.  Landlords deal with the problems of tenants who call to complain constantly; tenants who don’t pay their rent and

Given that the annual cost to insurance companies from water damages and mold in the U.S. is $2.5 billion, it is probably only a matter of time before you have some sort of water damage claim.

Roof coatings became popular in the 1970’s and 80’s, along with the “Bee Gees” and have been around ever since. Coatings are applied over an existing hot tar roof in an effort to “extend” the life of the roof and to add

Question 1: I recently heard that tenants’ children can inherit their rent controlled apartment. Is that true?

We were successful in the campaign to stop Prop. G, the so-called “anti-speculation tax” on last November’s ballot.  Had it passed, the ordinance would have added an exorbitant surtax onto the existing transfer tax.  But the tenant groups

Okay everyone, we got them on video.  It is about to go wild.

Hello Everybody.  All Apartment Owner Association members know the general rule:  It is unlawful for a landlord to discriminate against children, or to discriminate against tenants on account of their minors.  The California Supreme Court first imposed the prohibition of discriminating against families with children in 1982, relying on the

I often say that my experience as a mom has helped me in my career as a property manager.  I sometimes feel as though I am responsible for parenting more than 800 unruly teenagers and in my experience, educating residents about being good tenants and neighbors regularly becomes part of my job as a landlord…