Los Angeles has six programs administered by the housing authority HCIDLA that enables landlords to recover the cost of improvements to the property from their tenants. When approved by HCIDLA, these temporary rent surcharges  and permanent increases can be applied to a tenant’s rent are in addition to and above the rent increases normally allowable ..Read More

Do you need to serve your tenant a 3 or 15 day notice? We can serve your tenants the same day! Call us at 1-800-686-8686 A new law takes effect in California September 1, 2019 that can give tenants more days to respond to a landlord’s eviction notices and court summons. Currently, when a landlord ..Read More

As a result of the tragic death of six people in Berkeley from a residential balcony collapse, the California Legislature in late 2018 enacted Senate Bill 721 that requires the inspection of balconies as well as “exterior elevated elements” with three or more units. In most cases no immediate action is required on the part ..Read More

Was your property recently inspected by Housing for your annual Systematic Code Enforcement Program inspection known as a SCEP? I recently appeared at TWO general managers hearings at the HCIDLA housing department office for two clients of mine in a period of one week.  I was surprised because normally when my clients have issues with ..Read More

On this episode, we’re going to go over the basics of a Notice to Terminate Tenancy. Remember, this and most of the California notices and forms are available in the free eviction notices section of our website. This information is only for residential rental properties. This letter or notice is used when the landlord of ..Read More

The Long Beach City Council voted on April 2nd, 2019 in favor of a proposal that would require owners of multi-family buildings with four or more units to compensate tenants for relocation expenses when rents are increased by 10 percent or more during any 12 month period. This mandate is now being drafted by city ..Read More

According to the 2018 Santa Monica Rent Control Board’s Annual Report, market-rate tenants paid more than twice as much as long-term tenants irregardless of the unit’s size or location. This has resulted in a great rental divide between tenants living side by side in almost identical units that is depriving Santa Monica rental property owners ..Read More

A California initiative will be on the 2020 ballot to increase taxes on business properties by instigating what is known as a “Split roll” tax that taxes commercial property differently than residential property.  This represents the first major assault in 41 years on Proposition 13 protections approved overwhelmingly by California voters in 1978 to place ..Read More

Despite the stunning defeat of Proposition 10 in the 2018 election by a sixty four percent majority, over a dozen bills are now before the California Legislature targeting the rental housing industry that represents a major assault on landlord rights. Proposition 10 was soundly rejected by voters that would have repealed the 1995 Costa-Hawkins Rental ..Read More

Despite Proposition 10 being firmly rejected by sixty four percent of the voters in the 2018 election that would have repealed the Costa-Hawking Rental Housing Act which places limits on municipal rent control ordinances statewide – rent control has continued to grow in California since the election. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors extended ..Read More