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Are you using all of the rental forms as required by California state law and if so, are you also using the most current and up-to-date forms?  AOA forms are reviewed by attorneys and when laws change, our forms change.  If you’re not using the most current versions of the FREE AOA forms, NOW IS…

The Fed Open Market Committee (FOMC) met to review monetary policy and its massive “quantitative easing” effort. The official policy statement released at the end of the meeting was little changed from those in previous months. The FOMC voted to continue

Now that the Board of Supervisors has passed the city’s first mandatory soft-story retrofit ordinance, there appears to be much confusion as to how it will be implemented and what the role

Every once in a while it’s appropriate to devote a column to young people trying to get started.  An adult grandchild reading this might be willing to engage in a conversation that needs to be started. This article will hypothesize a 17 year investment horizon because

Buried under mountains of property management paperwork?  Do the projects seem to never end?  Imagine how good you would feel if every day you could

What is the case for raising the minimum wage? Supporters say it will help the low-paid worker, the teenager or the young person in his 20s, just starting out. They claim that it helps the economy because

Q:  I would like to prohibit my new tenant from smoking inside his apartment, can I do that? A:  Yes.  Effective January 1, 2012, you may prohibit new tenants from smoking cigarettes or

Question 1: When there is a shooting and tenants want to break the lease, what can we do to stop them, or force law enforcement to make the area safer so we don’t have our buildings sitting vacant because

With more apartments coming on line, it’s time to plan your interior selections upgrades. We all know that renters want to live in apartments that have a modern, updated look. Upgrading your vacant units so they have what renters

Question One: I have a seven unit building. We just tented the building for pest fumigation. When they took the tent off the building, we found out that someone went inside the tent and broke into two of the units. They entered through an open window in one unit and cut the security door on…