Below are questions asked by rental property owners regarding California rent control laws followed by answers provided by eviction attorney Dennis Block. Question One: My property is located in the City of San Gabriel. My tenant is on a one-year lease. I discovered that he converted the garage into a living space and has subleased…
Below are questions asked by rental property owners regarding California property management and resident manager laws followed by answers. Q: My tenant provided me with a police report stating that he is a victim of domestic violence. The restraining order listed that the restrained party was his ex-wife who does not live at the…
The Big Show You’ll want to remember to mark your calendars for the big “Million Dollar Trade Show and Landlording Conference” next month. The big show will be held on Thursday, October 27 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Hall C, 300 East Ocean! You’ll meet vendors galore with new products and services; you…
Ultimately, inflation is a monetary phenomenon. And so, the key to reducing the inflation we’re experiencing today (the highest inflation in forty years) is the Federal Reserve raising short-term interest rates, like it did in May. Another key issue is the size of government, both spending and regulation. When the federal government spends money like a…
Continued . . . Doheny expanded his interests to Mexico, where in 1901 he drilled the country’s first well in Tampico, 300 miles south of Brownsville Texas. Nine years prior he’d arrived in Los Angeles too poor to pay for his boarding room, and now he was an international oilman. Doheny used the confusion of…
As a professional property manager, I am committed to balancing the legal and ethical obligations to residents of rental dwelling units; providing safe and habitable housing, while simultaneously serving the owners’ financial interests. When landlord’s and tenant’s opinions do not align, conflicts often occur – sometimes, to a level of irreconcilable differences. However, those conflicts…
Dear Councilmember [Last Name]: Greetings. I strongly oppose the “Fair Chance Housing Policy” that has been proposed by the BRD. These “renter protection measures” are the opposite of what they are advertised to be! It would compromise all innocent renters, especially the weak and elderly. Below are some points you may want to consider. Regarding…
IN THE NEWS In the past few months, real estate investors in San Francisco settled two separate lawsuits for a total payment of $4.7 million. The lawsuits were brought by tenants who claimed they were illegally evicted by owners who wrongfully used the state’s “owner move-in” law, which allows property owners to evict rent-controlled tenants…
Big Sur and Morro Bay are terribly scenic locations beloved by romantics and those who wish he would become so. They are on the Pacific side of California, cooled in summer by the California Current, which also stabilizes winter temperatures along the coast. The climate changes as one moves away from the cooling Pacific, either…
Clients thinking about terminating their resident manager often want to know whether they will be able to evict after they end the resident manager’s employment. A simple question but — even ignoring any Covid eviction rules — one that does not always have a simple answer. Many factors come into play and, even after those…