As Covid emergency regulations are being phased out, most mask mandates are coming to an end. However, there is one significant protection that remains in effect: the city’s eviction moratorium, which prohibits evictions due to pandemic-related financial struggles and health issues. The Board of Supervisors approved an ordinance last year that offers permanent protection to ..Read More

Starting January 27, 2023, every landlord who owns residential properties is required to give tenants a Notice of Renters’ Protections upon the start or renewal of their tenancy. Additionally, the notice must be posted in a common area of the property that is easily accessible to all tenants. To obtain a copy of the Renters’ ..Read More

The moratorium prohibits almost all evictions without fault, but allows most evictions for a tenant’s wrongdoing, except for failure to pay rent if protected by the moratorium’s non-payment provisions. However, certain at-fault evictions are also prohibited under the moratorium, as explained below. The protections described in this section apply regardless of whether the tenant has ..Read More

The County has imposed a moratorium that prevents evictions for “no fault” reasons, except for those that are necessary for health and safety, and an extremely limited exception for owner move-in evictions, which is explained further below. A “no fault” reason is defined as any eviction where the notice to end the tenancy is not ..Read More

Starting from March 1, the Tenant Protection Ordinance of the City of Chula Vista will take effect. Its aim is to eliminate the loopholes for no-fault eviction, but some argue that it could bring about unintended repercussions for landlords. In addition to constraining no-fault evictions, the ordinance also offers greater relocation support to tenants and ..Read More

Since its inception in March 2020 during the pandemic, the eviction moratorium in L.A. County has undergone several changes through multiple amendments. Furthermore, the COVID-19 Tenant Protection Act (CTRA), a state law, had preempted several of its provisions. Although most of CTRA’s preemption provisions relating to local eviction moratoria expired on June 30, 2022, as ..Read More

From my observation, numerous rental property owners who have owned their properties for an extended period tend to retain control of property management, not because they have a preference for control or believe they can manage the property more efficiently than a management company, but due to their attachment to the status quo and their ..Read More

The Los Angeles City Council has approved the implementation of a permanent just-cause eviction ordinance which will affect most rental units in the city, effective January 27, 2023.  This will replace the eviction protections afforded to tenants by the Tenant Protection Act of 2019, but properties rent-controlled by this act will continue to be rent-controlled ..Read More

Landlords are often traumatized by deaths that occur in their rental units, particularly when it is due to drug addiction, such as the widespread use of fentanyl which has become the deadliest killer. Natural deaths are the most common, but discovering a tenant who has overdosed or a homicide or suicide can be extremely distressing ..Read More

Wait what are you talking about? We are not having a concession War yet? Yet was the key word in that sentence. As the market shifts and now we have some vacant units that are not renting as quickly as we would like. Don’t be surprised to start seeing the signs at the apartment communities. ..Read More