The Berkeley City Council voted on Wednesday night to move forward with the development of an amnesty program for illegal secondary units, which would give owners of property containing such units a chance to bring them into legal compliance without…
As we near the January 1st implementation of new statewide rent control and eviction protections, news has been circulating of landlords issuing notices of large rent increases or evicting existing tenants to raise rents before the new law officially kicks…
Starting January 1, 2020 landlords in California will be limited in how much they can collect in security deposits from tenants who are active military members. SB-644 limits security deposits for active military members to one month's rent for unfurnished…
The biggest news from the end of California's 2019 legislative session was the passage of statewide rent and eviction controls under AB 1482. With all the news around that, you might have missed the signing of another bill — AB…
Earlier this month, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 329 into law, which will make it illegal starting January 1, 2020 to: Refuse to rent to persons who receive housing assistance Apply tenant selection standards that disadvantage recipients of housing…
Earlier this month, the City of San Francisco implemented the first iteration of its Community Opportunity to Purchase Act, which gives six qualified non-profits the right of first offer and/or first refusal in transactions of multi-family residential properties (defined as…
Updated OCTOBER 8, 2019 — With his signature on Assembly Bill 1482 today, Governor Newsom has officially made California just the second state (and by far the largest) in the nation to enact state-wide rent control and just cause for…
The Alameda City Council voted this week to adopt an urgency ordinance—effective immediately—that will provide "just cause" protections to Section 8 renters and set new rules for owner move-in evictions, relocation payments, and buyout agreements. If you own property in…
Accessory dwelling units (or ADUs for short) have become one of the more popular solutions to the California housing shortage. A slew of new ADU bills could be heading to the Governor as soon as next week and would make…
A San Jose landlord is being sued after evicting tenants in 4 different units under the claim of owner move-ins for her and her family members which never happened. She claims her father's medical problems got in the way. Now…