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Arriving home one hectic day from work, all I wanted to do was nothing.  Instead, I arrived to find a little pond in my front yard that had not been there when I left that morning.  As you can imagine, I wasn’t very happy and

Over a year ago, I wrote an article about what changes were going to take place because the Los Angeles Superior Court system had implemented 60 million dollars in cutbacks and laid off over a quarter of the court employees since 2008.  I projected

Earthquake Liability Dear AOA: While it is a good idea to report court cases affecting landlords, the AOA article referencing the Paso Robles “earthquake liability” case is potentially misleading.  The case did not

Webster’s dictionary defines “Act of God” as, “an extraordinary interruption by a natural cause (as a flood or earthquake) of the usual course of events that experience, prescience, or care cannot reasonably foresee or prevent.”

 How Super-Low Interest Rates Punish Savers Get a group of adults together in a social setting and the conversation almost invariably gets

We certainly understand the hostility that professional politicians exhibit against citizens using the tools of direct democracy. The People’s right of initiative, referendum and recall are effective tools to control an indolent or corrupt legislature.

Have you noticed that when you take time off from work, life goes on?  I have recently done just that and now that I am back in the saddle, I realize the challenges we were facing before are still present.  In fact, new challenges have developed in the interim.

Did you know that the number of Americans getting benefits from the federal government each month greatly exceeds the number of full-time workers in the economy by a long shot? Sadly, it’s true. Based on the latest Census Bureau data available, there were

We knew this was coming, and now it looks imminent. A little while ago, three newspapers, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Financial Times each reported that the Federal Reserve agreed amongst themselves to quit buying bonds in October, 2014. Just saying that rates will someday go up is one thing,…

Q:  I served my tenant with a three day notice to pay rent or quit and he moved most of his belongings out during the three day period but he did leave some of his personal property behind.  What am I required to do with the things he left behind?