Below are questions asked by rental property owners regarding California rent control laws followed by answers provided by Attorney Richard Beckman. Question 1: Is there any indication that the eviction moratoriums in Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda County are going to be removed anytime soon? Answer 1: None that are apparent. It is discouraging that…
Below are questions asked by rental property owners regarding California rent control laws followed by answers provided by Attorney Richard Beckman. Question 1: Hello. For a multifamily building of eight units, which forms should be used for a month-to-month rental agreement? Also, in leasing a unit that will be vacant, what kind of restrictions…
Beginning May 1, 2022, landlords of most Alameda rental units may serve their tenant with rent increase notices of no more than 2.7%, after the Alameda City Council adopted new legislation altering the moratorium on rent increases. The change applies to multi-unit properties built prior to February 1995, which are subject to a cap on the annual…
Alameda County, Los Angeles County, and multiple cities throughout the state continue to extend baseless eviction bans. April 1st is actually Day 742 of the housing provider hostage crisis. Our local politicians’ actions show that they do not care about the pain and suffering that they are causing housing providers. Their main priority is the…
Supervisor Dean Preston (D5) has introduced legislation “to require landlords pursuing certain types of evictions to first provide their tenants written notice and an opportunity to cure” within 10 days unless the eviction is based on an imminent health or safety issue or the non-payment of COVID-19 rental debt. San Francisco is a “just cause…
Legal Q & A by Richard Beckman Below are questions asked by rental property owners regarding California rent control laws followed by answers provided by Attorney Richard Beckman. Question 1: I have a single-family home rental in San Francisco. The tenant has been living at the property since 2009. I would like to increase the…
Below are questions asked by rental property owners regarding California rent control laws followed by answers provided by Attorney Richard Beckman. Question 1: Do you know of any new laws for 2022 that affect the rental industry? Answer 1: Other than, of course, the pandemic related legislation, the California legislature was relatively quiet in…
Below are questions asked by rental property owners regarding California rent control laws followed by answers provided by Attorney Richard Beckman. Question 1: As always, any updates on the state of the courts and unlawful detainers? Answer 1: As most readers know, AB 832 – the final version of the statewide Covid-related rent relief legislation…
Photo by Karolina Grabowska from Pexels Federal Legislation governing rent assistance presented states with three options: State Rental Assistance Program, the Block Grant Option, or having part of the state allocation distributed through local jurisdictions. California chose to run the program in smaller jurisdictions, but offered larger jurisdictions the ability to elect to run their own programs.…
Hello everybody. It has been many years since I have written about the methods to prevent a neighbor from acquiring a prescriptive easement on an owner’s property. Because a prescriptive easement can permanently deprive an owner of his or her property rights, the methods to prevent that are worth reviewing. For purposes of this article,…