Below are questions asked by rental property owners regarding California property management and resident manager laws followed by answers provided by Attorney Franco Simone. Q: I am a landlord of a small apartment building. I am reviewing the new lease that I want to use this year. I want to make sure I can…
Below are questions asked by rental property owners regarding California property management and resident manager laws followed by answers provided by Attorney Franco Simone. Q: I recently decided that managing my 15-unit apartment building in Oceanside, California is too difficult. I decided to hire a property management company to take over managing my apartment building.…
I probably am revealing no great secret by declaring that the legal structure for paying on-site managers is in many ways baffling, befuddling and confusing (choose your adjective). Numerous payment rules exist that we just don’t see in typical employment situations – rent caps, rent credit caps, etc. Consistent with this theme, I want to…
Hello everybody. My discussion this month deals with the topic of whether an apartment owner must pay all or any portion of the cell phone bill of the owner’s resident managers who use their own personal cell phones when performing their work-related services.
If you are reading this article, you almost certainly know about the Tenant Protection Act of 2019 (Assembly Bill No. 1482), the state-wide rent control law, and you probably have carefully considered how this law affects you and your properties. You may not yet have fully thought through, however, how this law might affect your…