Despite the Coming Gas Ban, California is Far From Ready to Go “All Electric” By Chaz Peling, CEO of SolSolutions LLC

Current Events, Magazine Articles

In the rush to phase out fossil fuels to reduce the impacts of climate change, California’s state and city governments are ramping up a large number of mandated changes and phase-outs around fossil-fuel-based equipment, appliances and vehicles, used in homes, buildings, transportation and everyday living and business activity. This article specifically addresses recent permit and…

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Apartment List’s National Rent Report (August 2023) By the Apartment List Research Team

Current Events, Economy, Magazine Articles, Rental Market

Welcome to the August 2023 Apartment List National Rent Report. The rental market hit a big milestone this month, as national rent growth is finally negative year-over-year. This means that on average across the nation, apartments today are renting for less than they did one year ago. This marks a major deceleration from recent years, when annual…

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Apartment Building

PRESS RELEASE: Santa Ana launches Rental Registry for landlords

Current Events, Rental Market

Landlords are required to register rental units pursuant to the Rent Stabilization and Just Cause Eviction Ordinance. SANTA ANA, Calif. – Effective November 18, 2022, the City of Santa Ana enacted the Rent Stabilization and Just Cause Eviction Ordinance (“Ordinance”) to regulate rent increases and evictions for certain rental properties and mobilehome spaces. Under the…

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When it Comes to Residential Wi-Fi, Invest in a Managed Solution with a Measurable Difference By the Editors of the Rental Housing Journal

Current Events, Magazine Articles

It’s easy to know who is winning when you keep score. To evaluate the quality of managed Wi-Fi solutions in Multi-Dwelling Units (MDU), property owners typically keep score by looking at the hard numbers that drive costs up. These include the following: Number of resident complaints about the Wi-Fi per month Hours of Wi-Fi downtime…

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2023-2024 California’s Maximum Rent Increases for Units Covered by AB 1482 (Tenant Protection Act)

Current Events, Magazine Articles, Property Management, Rent Control

The announced maximum allowable increases for 2023, applicable to properties covered by AB 1482 (The California Tenant Protection Act) will go into effect August 1, 2023, and will be in place until the end of July, 2024. The maximum allowable increase is calculated by adding five percent to the Consumer Price Index for the respective…

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California Considers Reining In High Security Deposits – (AB 12) and Is Housing a Human Right? California Voters Could Decide! By CalMatters

Current Events, Rental Market

Most renters know securing housing isn’t as simple as finding the perfect place. California’s renters must save up thousands of dollars to provide security deposits that can legally be as much as two months’ rent, or three months’ for furnished units.  Add in the requirement that renters put up the first month’s rent before they can…

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Inflation Slams California’s Rental Market – How to Fight Back by Mercedes Shaffer, Realtor

Current Events, Economy, Rent Control, Rental Market

Rent control policies have long been a topic of debate, with proponents arguing for tenant protection and affordable housing, while opponents claim rent control has the opposite effect.  In California, where the housing crisis is particularly severe, statewide rent control limits rent increases to 5% + CPI, with a max of a 10% annual increase. …

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Californians Should Be Skeptical of Creating a ‘Right to Housing’ in the State Constitution By Jon Coupal, President of Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association

Current Events, Politics

California voters may soon have to decide whether to enshrine a “right to housing” in the state constitution. Assembly Constitutional Amendment 10 provides, in its entirety: “The state hereby recognizes the fundamental human right to adequate housing for everyone in California. It is the shared obligation of state and local jurisdictions to respect, protect, and…

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What’s Happening in the Housing Market By Lloyd Segal, President of the Los Angeles Real Estate Investor’s Club

Current Events, Economy, Magazine Articles

  Below is an excerpt from the Monday Morning Quarterback from June 26, 2023. Adding Affordable Housing Is ‘Essential’ to Fixing California’s Homelessness Crisis  The main barrier to fixing California’s homelessness crisis is the massive shortage of affordable housing for people with very low incomes, and fixing that is “essential” to solving homelessness, according to a…

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