Effective February 1, 2012, rules issued by the San Francisco Rent Board will change to better protect tenants against landlords unilaterally changing the terms of the lease. Currently, a landlord may change the terms of a tenant’s lease by merely sending the tenant...
The San Francisco Rent Ordinance governs rental housing. While the Rent Ordinance affects mostly apartments buildings built before 1979, it also affects tenants in single family homes. The Rent Ordinance mandates that a tenant’s rent can only be increased under the...
Under some circumstances, a California landlord can be held liable when a tenant’s dog bites someone. For example, if the landlord has received notice that a tenant had a vicious dog, or knows that a fence is not repaired which allows dogs get into the building. In...
What happens when your building is sold and you are under the San Francisco Rent Ordinance? Nothing! That’s right-nothing. Legislation passed in 2008 now requires the seller and buyer of a multi-unit building to disclose to tenants (in writing) that they cannot be...
The burst of the housing bubble is hurting tenants as more people decide not to buy homes. In 2004, before the Great Recession, the percentage of Americans who were homeowners was 69 percent. Now according to the New York Times, the percentage of homeowners has...
