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Hello everybody.   My discussion this month deals with the topic of whether an apartment owner or management company must pay the cell phone bill of its resident manager who uses a personal cell phone for work-related matters. 

Today I had a tenant in tears – but not because she was sad. A couple with a young child has been renting from me for a year during a low-paid graduate internship for the wife. They will be moving back home at the end of July. This morning I had some appointments scheduled to see…

The FREE “Million Dollar Trade Show and Landlording Conference”! Wednesday, October 15th at the Los Angeles Convention Center – West Hall B

Every newspaper in Los AngelesCounty has endorsed John Morris for Los Angeles County Assessor.  From the Los Angeles Times to the Daily News; from the Antelope Valley Press to the Long Beach Press

 Did you ever buy a game or device for which the rule book or instruction manual was so thick and detailed that you were not able to comprehend it in a reasonable period of time, so you either discarded or failed to use the product?

The purpose of qualifying is to make certain that the future resident can meet the needs of your community and vice versa.  Qualifying not only saves the leasing professional time, but saves the

If you owned property at the beginning of 2013, you have to have a smile on your face today – right? After a near-record price increase in 2013, many headed into 2014 full of

In 2008, I was part of a group of Newport Beach PD detectives that arrested eight people in an identity theft ring. The criminals made fake credit cards (with real credit card numbers) and fake driver’s licenses to match.

The logic goes that cities with expensive homes, high wage earners and a high standard of living would precipitate an increase in the minimum wage to keep pace with the average cost of living.  But might it also be true that a healthy increase in the minimum wage would

Any landlord who has done an eviction knows that tenants always claim the landlord breached the “warranty of habitability” as a defense to an eviction. In order to be successful, a tenant must prove