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- Tenant Relief Act of 2020 – Forms
The Tenant Relief Act of 2020 has passed into law, and its full text is available here. It is rather a lengthy document, because it amends and adds qu… - Bay Area courts re-opening
This week, with the “Stage 2” lessening, finally came the tide of the courts reopening.[Update May 29] But not the federal bankruptcy courts – – just … - Intermediate Length Occupancy Ordinance passed
On May 5, 2020, the Board of Supervisors accepted in first reading the fifth version of the new “Intermediate Length Occupancy” regulation (link).The … - Compliance with the statewide rent control requirements
The set of statutes defining the California statewide rent- and eviction-control were enacted back in September 2019 (the AB 1482 bill). For the… - California joins Oregon in approving statewide rent control
This was expected to pass for a few months, and just happened now. The bill is expected to be signed in to law in a matter of days. Even municip… - Statewide rent control is coming to California. Like now.
[2019-09-11 UPDATE] it has passed the Senate today. This is just in. The bill passed the Assembly and is expected to pass the Senate as well:https://w… - waste of time as sanctionable conduct
In preparation to my second visit to London with our Bar’s Litigation Section (called “A Legal Week In London,” highly recommended), I was sharing my … - Landlord’s duty to update contact information – CC § 1962(c) interpreted by the court
In DLI Properties v. Hill, (Los Angeles App. Dep’t Super. Ct., Sept. 17, 2018, No. BV 032016, 2018 WL 6192245) the court addressed the recently added … - Book update – ver. 2.8
I had a chance to update the book to include latest changes across the topics (and as usual, weeding out any typos I could find). There is also a bran… - How Preemptive Is the Ellis Act?
On June 20, 2018, California Supreme Court denied review of Small Property Owners of San Francisco Institute v. City & County of San Francisco&nbs… - New legislation signed today: timing on eviction notices and responding to UD summons and deposition notices
Among 25 bills signed today, one drew my attention: extending time to respond to eviction notices and to unlawful detainer summons (AB 2343).Far from … - Constitutionality of the requirement for a life-time lease as condition for condo conversion was upheld
In July of last year, TIC co-owners of a multi-unit building in San Francisco sued against the ordinance provisions requiring a lifetime lease to be o… - “Educators” ban on evictions is gone, no longer
[02-14-2018: Court of appeals reversed the judgment];[Cal. Sup. Ct. denied review on April 25, 2018; Rent Ordinance reinstated back the “educators” or… - The “Educators” Ordinance Is Back
Today the court of appeals reversed in full its 2016 judgment, which up until today was holding the “educators” ordinance on hold. There is a hope tha… - Another attack on Rent Ordinance Registration Requirement–This Time In San Jose
I must start with repeating an old joke. As a train arrived to the station, a passenger asked a conductor: “will this train take me to the Main Street… - New 2018 edition of the “Eviction Notice In SF” is out
I could write my own introduction to this new edition, but I like this one instead:”Having taken more than ordinary Pains in collecting the Materials … - Between the rock and the hard place—a peculiar position of a master tenant
When we talk about a landlord-tenant relationship, we often imply the simplest pairing: that there is a landlord and there is that landlord’s tenant, … - Bending Laws of Physics – A New Opportunity For Lawyers in Richmond
Lawyers are so generally expected to be masters at bending laws, there are folklore quotes about it in pretty much every language. In Russian, the say… - Owner move-in regulation expanded and tightened
On July 18, 2017, the new proposed regulations for the owner- and relative-move-in evictions passed in their final version, and yesterday the mayor ha… - Hayes v Kardosh – Rule 12.20 explained and limited
In April an appellate decision came down in Hayes v. Kardosh, containing a detailed discussion about the extent of Rule 12.20 limitations in changing … - Back to futuristic—for my future laptops I shall look over the shoulder
This is what happens to people, who are left idle to themselves—they may start thinking about some irrelevant stuff. This happened to me: I got … - New rules on restricting access to unlawful detainer records
Unlawful detainer records used to be “masked” from public access for the first 60 days and then, if no defendant settled or got dismissed in the inter… - New rest period policies in California
On December 22, 2016, California Supreme Court in Augustus v. ABM Security Services (Case S224853) has reversed the prior decision made by … - 10-year ban on residential mergers following non-fault eviction is confirmed as invalid by the appellate court
On September 19, 2016, San Francisco homeowners got confirmed in their relief, when the appellate court affirmed our county court’s decision to strike… - Rent Control News
Despite the studies hinting to the contrary, rent-control regulations continue to spread in the Bay Area. San Mateo, Mountain View, and Richmond …