Sometimes a landlord will file and serve her tenant a complaint for forcible detainer instead of an unlawful detainer. What is the difference? Forcible detainers are usually filed and served when the landlord is alleging that the tenant has stayed in her apartment...
You see a listing for an apartment on the Internet. There is only one electric meter and one water meter for the apartment and for the upstairs single family house. The apartment was built in the back of a garage. You take the apartment because the rent is...
San Francisco voters approved Proposition M in 2008. The measure amended the San Francisco Rent Ordinance to ban bad faith or “harassment” actions conducted by the landlord or their agents. The San Francisco Superior Court upheld the measure. Landlords appealed to the...
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...
On the day set for trial, the judge will tell you your case has been assigned to a courtroom. You will be told to report to that courtroom immediately. What is going to happen at the trial? The judge to whom you have been assigned will usually tell you the rules of...
