You move out of your apartment after you give 30 days notice. However, you never receive your deposit. What can you do about it? Currently, not much. State Senator Mark Leno authored a bill sponsored by, among other groups, San Francisco’s Tenants Together, to put...
Common law retaliation is any action taken by a landlord against a tenant that is not codified as retaliatory under California statutory law. For example, if a landlord serves the tenant with a three-day notice to quit within 180 days after the landlord has been...
California law seems to prohibit rental agreements from compelling mandatory arbitration of disputes. However, there is a conflict between two laws that the courts have not yet resolved. California Civil Code section 1953 states “any provisions of a lease or rental...
