The California Apartment Association (CAA), a trade group of landlords, announced on May 5th they will suspend their legal challenges to two approved rent control measures. Last November, rent control measures were on the ballot in five cities. Only those in Richmond...
Here’s an important blog I wrote last year called “Don’t Be Fooled into an Eviction.” Some landlords will try to get you to move without going through the expense and time to formally eviction you. You get a letter from your landlord in the mail or...
With more apartment fires in the Bay Area, I am re-running a blog I wrote on October, 17, 2016 called “Eviction by Fire.” Protecting your tenant’s rights is now more important than ever. In early October, nine tenants were left homeless by another...
My client, a father and his five-year-old son, were both forced into homelessness. All because a landlord improperly removed this man’s belongings from his home. And they admitted it. This is what happened to one tenant. Remember, the details of your situation could...
As I wrote in the blog “The Case of the Winning Defendant,” court opinions can have lots of drama like reality television. A recent case, about a tenant who changed his mind, has plenty of drama. It also has good lessons for other tenants. What is a court opinion?...
There’s a battle ahead. And it’s already started. The first strike occurred on February 17, when California Assembly Members David Chiu (Democrat-San Francisco), Rob Bonta (Democrat-Alameda), and Richard Bloom (Democrat-Santa Monica) introduced a bill to repeal the...
