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A handful of far-left, Bay Area activists think they have come up with a clever plan to chip away at Proposition 13. Specifically, they are attempting to persuade local school boards and city councils to pass resolutions in support of removing Prop. 13 protections for business property.

Trade Show a Huge Success! Our “Million Dollar” Trade Show and Landlording Conference last month was a huge success!  You should have been there!  Our members were more educated, motivated and stimulated by some very knowledgeable

“But they seemed like such nice people!”  Famous last words of the landlord whose bad tenant was just dragged out of their property by the deputy sheriff, eviction order in hand, and told to remove his belongings from the sidewalk in less than two hours.  The landlord surveys the

The quote that “Good Landlords Attract Good Tenants” is true.  So when you consider best practices, I think you need to decide what practices will allow you to attract and retain quality tenants.  The first thing

Remember how many of us worried in 2006 and 2007 that the housing market was in a bubble, and how it could end badly? Yet we were told by market analysts that it was different this time around, and that soaring

A landlord asked this week on LandlordingAdvice.com, “How do you ‘tenant-proof’ your properties?  How do you minimize damage/wear and tear?”  One of our regular forum contributors shared the following 10 tricks of the trade.

Here’s what you should know about what’s new in 2014 in regards to the water and energy conservation law. Beginning in January 1, 2014, selling and installing toilets that are not High Efficiency Toilets (HET) is not allowed in California. An average household with a family of four could save 16,000 gallons of water a…

Hello everybody.    AOA readers should bear in mind that starting July 1, 2014 the minimum wage which must be paid to a resident manager will be $9.00 per hour, up from $8.00 per hour.  Also, absent an exception, the maximum rent which may be charged to a manager who is required to live on the…

Crazy as it may sound, most investors drive blind.  They don’t have investment goals; they don’t have a monthly or annual review of their investments and they don’t have an investment strategy.  When you are looking to get off your

Dan John, the brilliant athletic coach, sometimes refers to the Jim Gaffigan riff on Mexican food as a way to understand the basic principles of, well, almost anything.