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Question 1:  I have a two-year lease with my tenant in San Francisco. The renter told me he lost his job and would move out of the unit and apply the deposit money towards his rent. He has six more months left on his lease. Can I apply the deposit to his rent as he…

Question One: Can I serve both a Three-Day to Pay the Rent and a Notice to Perform Covenant or Quit at the same time? Answer One: This is certainly permissible. If a tenant owes rent and also has failed to pay a portion of the security deposit, this would be an example when both notices…

Caller: The one bedroom, one bath was on the third floor? Housing Provider:  Yes. Caller:  Okay. And what is the deposit? Housing Provider:  It’s a $250 deposit, plus there’s a $100 non-refundable administration fee and the application fee is $45. Caller:  Okay.  Now, I do have a service animal. Housing Provider:  You do have a…

Joyce was the on-site manager at the Green Pineapple Apartments inOregon City,Oregon. Her mission was to turn the units from move-out to new move- in, in less than seven days.  To manage that quick turn, she had to

COLLECTING ON BAD CHECKS A resident of a landlord moved out during the middle of the lease and put a stop payment on his last rental check. When the landlord asked him to make good on the check, he refused, so the landlord

An organized landlord is a more profitable landlord.  I have reviewed many thousands of tenant debtor files and one thing is certain – by looking at a tenant file after the tenant moves out, I can usually tell you fairly accurately how the property is being managed.  A well-organized landlord who documents everything has

One of the keys to profitable real estate ownership is your front line management. A good manager often increases both the cash flow and the value of a property, while a bad one can turn a top property into a fixer. There’s both an art and a science to hiring and keeping a good manager.…

There are thousands of security deposit disputes each year.  In many of these cases, the dispute comes down to a disagreement between the landlord and tenant over

There’s only one reason why the housing crash wasn’t any worse than it was on the nation’s homeowners, mortgage lenders and local communities – and it wasn’t the federal government. Private investors have accounted for 15 to 25 percent of home sales since 2008—most of them foreclosures that are poisonous to local home values. In…

 [Editor’s Note:  As reported on April 18, 2013, two landlords were fined an EPA penalty of $13,900 for violations of federal