RESIDENT MANAGERS: SUMMARY OF CALIFORNIA WAGE, HOUR AND RENT LAWS FOR 2022 for owners and management companies who employ less than 26 total employees. (Effective January 1, 2022) DALE S. ALBERSTONE, ESQ. ALBERSTONE & ALBERSTONE 269 S. Beverly Drive, Suite 1670, Beverly Hills, CA 90212 Telephone: (310)…
Landlords are still required to provide an itemization of deductions made to the security deposit to their former tenants within 21 days after the tenant vacates. Even with all of the COVID moratorium laws and rent deferments, landlords’ obligations to provide itemizations have not been waived. In fact, in February 2021, the State Legislature enacted…
Below are questions asked by rental property owners regarding California rent control laws followed by answers provided by eviction attorney, Dennis Block. Question One: I am in the middle of an eviction and I got word that a plumbing repair is required which affects two units. I need access to the unit which is under…
Below are questions asked by rental property owners regarding California rent control laws followed by answers provided by Attorney Franco Simone. Q: My neighbor told me that California passed a new law about emotional support animals. I was recently contacted by one of my tenants informing me that they required an emotional support cat and…
Overview: Frederick Eaton and William Mulholland grew up in entirely different worlds. Mulholland was born in Dublin, Ireland, the son of a low-level guard of the Royal Mail. William ran away from home when he was 15, spent seven years wandering about as a manual laborer first on a trans-Atlantic cargo ship, then in the…
There’s an old sports adage that “your team is only as good as its weakest player.” This wisdom can be applied to any industry, but I’ve found it especially true of property management. Successful property management requires a joining of professionals with vastly different skill sets all working toward the same goal: maximizing the quality…
A tenant surrender of possession of agreement is a meeting of the minds that results in a tenant voluntarily moving out for compensation, a rent waiver, return of the security deposit, or any combination of carrots and sticks to motivate the tenant to leave the premises at their own volition. More than “cash for keys,”…
Hello everybody. Most everyone hopes that 2022 will bring about world peace, tenants who pay their full rent on time each and every month, and an end to the COVID-19 virus. As the legal writer for the Apartment Owners Association, my hope for AOA members is more modest, but nonetheless extremely important. In fact, it…
WAYS LANDLORDS REDUCE THEIR VISIBILITY The following dozen plus suggestions are what some mom and pop landlords do to lower their visibility when around residents, contractors and others. Why? If others think (wrongly or rightly) that you own rental property, that equates to having lots of money and they tend to want or expect more…
Selling a perfectly good property is an unnatural act. Human beings don’t seem to want to change things unless there’s a problem. Plus, selling a property you own and buying another one creates its own kind of anxiety. You may worry about whether you will make a profitable move or the worst deal of the…
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