Can you get money from your landlord if he wrongfully used an owner move-in eviction? Maybe. An investigative report by NBC Bay Area suggests that it’s relatively easy. But be forewarned: you as a tenant will likely have hoops to jump through. Are landlords acting...
If you didn’t like the results of the presidential election, there still might be a bright spot for you as a tenant. Five Bay Area cities had tenant rent control measures on the ballot last Tuesday. All of these measures were created through voters collecting enough...
Here’s an article I wrote that was published in the November 2016 The Bar Association of San Francisco Bulletin. It was fun to remember my first experience as a volunteer lawyer and to reflect on how far I’m come: Volunteering With the Justice &...
Nine tenants were left homeless by another fire that damaged an apartment building in the Mission district about 17 days ago. There’s been a rash of them. This 2-alarm fire took 66 firefighters about an hour and a half to put out. A SFGATE article noted that the fire...
Imagine you lived in a place where you didn’t speak the language fluently. How would you enter into a legal agreement like a lease while being careful about your own interests? I’ve always advocated that you should be an informed tenant. But it becomes much more...
You get a letter from your landlord in the mail or find one stuck to your door. With a sick stomach, you read that it’s a notice to terminate your tenancy. It looks official. The letter my clients recently received from their landlord was just like that. It even said,...
