The landlord or his realtor presents you with a document asking you about the details of your lease. You sign it without thinking about it. Did you just unknowingly give away some of your tenant rights? In my last blog, “Tenant Estoppel Certificates: The Hidden...
A “tenant estoppel certificate” sounds like something boring. But it can be critical in preserving your tenant’s rights. Disguised by other names Sometimes a tenant estoppel certificate comes disguised as a “Rental Questionnaire” or a “Statement of...
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...
