This article addresses the affects of mold on structures, indoor environmental conditions, and health & safety. The fundamentals of dealing with mold contamination is a four-step process:
The world has changed considerably, seemingly overnight. For commercial real estate companies, the pain of the pandemic directly impacts your properties. You’ve seen tenants shut down offices in favor of work-from-home solutions, scale back or discontinue operations, and sometimes go out of business entirely.
Question 1: My tenant has given written notice to vacate a month to month rental. Her son was given permission to be added as an additional household member as a live-in aide. He was never added to the rental agreement and my tenant is having difficulty getting him to leave. My question is, if she…
The formula for progress is simple … we’ve known the three steps for 240 years. Last month, I wrote about the idiotic beggar-thy-neighbor “mercantilist” trade policies being advocated by the front-runners for the 2016 presidential nomination. In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith (1723-1790), founder of the science of economics and champion of free enterprise,…
While it is human nature to presume that tenants inherently share the same perceptions and competencies as buildings owners or property managers, all too often there can be a substantial variance between what is presumed and how a tenant will actually act or react both under normal circumstances as well as unusual or emergency situations.
Hello everybody. We live in a litigious society. Californians are “suit happy” and Southern Californians are particularly “suit happy.” Certainly there is no shortage of litigation filed by tenants against their former or existing landlords. My column this month will discuss the 26 main “Affirmative Defenses” available to a landlord to defend against tenants’ causes…
Back when my grandparents had their first coin-op laundry equipment in the late 1950’s- there were limited choices in equipment models which made things easy, but in today’s day and age, it’s a different ballgame. They had old 10¢ meters that would start the old Frigidaire washers with a mechanical timer, would often stick in…
Investing in multifamily housing and apartments requires extra investigation, sometimes called due diligence by attorneys, for investors who want to be certain they do not make a mistake. This extra investigation and these questions are beyond what a real estate investor may do normally for a typical commercial real estate investment. As a real estate investor,…
The purpose of unlawful detainer proceedings is timely restoration of possession. Time periods for pleading [in unlawful detainer actions] are shorter than ordinary civil actions; the matter is set for trial more quickly and they are entitled to priority on the trial calendar. Thus, under California Law, these are the top ten reasons to do…
Do you ever feel like you are moving so fast that you start to make “dumb” mistakes at work? Or what about your teams? Do you feel like sometimes you give them the SAME instructions and they continue to miss the SAME steps?
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