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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

 The Small Property Owners of San Francisco Institute joined local property owners in filing a lawsuit against the City and County of San Francisco. The lawsuit challenges a new ordinance that dramatically increases relocation payments that landlords must make to tenants who are lawfully evicted under the state’s Ellis Act.

According to a recent survey by Matrix Information, three billion people around the globe have access to Internet-based services and E-mail.  In addition, this report expects electronic commerce to grow from $3.2 trillion in 2013 to $6.2 trillion by the year 2015.  Is your property management company ready for these exploding communication and

Arriving home one hectic day from work, all I wanted to do was nothing.  Instead, I arrived to find a little pond in my front yard that had not been there when I left that morning.  As you can imagine, I wasn’t very happy and

Over a year ago, I wrote an article about what changes were going to take place because the Los Angeles Superior Court system had implemented 60 million dollars in cutbacks and laid off over a quarter of the court employees since 2008.  I projected

Earthquake Liability Dear AOA: While it is a good idea to report court cases affecting landlords, the AOA article referencing the Paso Robles “earthquake liability” case is potentially misleading.  The case did not

Webster’s dictionary defines “Act of God” as, “an extraordinary interruption by a natural cause (as a flood or earthquake) of the usual course of events that experience, prescience, or care cannot reasonably foresee or prevent.”

 How Super-Low Interest Rates Punish Savers Get a group of adults together in a social setting and the conversation almost invariably gets

We certainly understand the hostility that professional politicians exhibit against citizens using the tools of direct democracy. The People’s right of initiative, referendum and recall are effective tools to control an indolent or corrupt legislature.