Evictions are a hot topic among tenants. And rightly so. The fear is that once you get evicted, you won’t be able to find another affordable home in the Bay Area. I wrote in my last blog about the City of Oakland’s effort to answer the question about how to provide...
As most tenants know, it’s been a tough year to be a tenant in San Francisco. The news covering landlord/tenant evictions has been extensive. We have heard stories after stories in the media of tenants suffering hardship. Now the annual statistics from the San...
As I mentioned in my last blog, my clients are receiving more and more eviction notices that do not even marginally follow the Rent Ordinance rules. It’s a legal action An eviction notice is a legal action. The law dictates what needs to be in an eviction notice. ...
“All the renters I know are living in fear,” said Derrick Tynan-Connolly in the March 9th, 2016 New York Times. He noted, “If your landlord dies, if your landlord sells the building, if you get evicted under the Ellis Act and you have to move, you’re gone. There’s no...
We are reading more and more stories of evictions in the local news. What frequently isn’t reported in the news are the cold, hard numbers about eviction in San Francisco. Behind these number are the evictions that are happening to you, your sister, your friend, or...
You should know your tenant’s rights if you get an Ellis Act eviction. The landlord has a choice of which “just cause” eviction method to take, and even if he states he wants to move his family into your rent-controlled apartment, you still might get...
