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More than 250 golfers and guests gathered Monday in San Mateo for a California Apartment Association event that raises thousands of dollars annually to battle homelessness in the Silicon Valley.
The CAA Tri-County Charity Golf Tournament generates money for the Housing Industry Foundation, a nonprofit that helps individuals and families in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties remain in or return to stable housing. The foundation also helps provide renovations to shelters operated by other nonprofits in the region.
The amount of money raised by the tournament is still being tallied.
Besides assisting HIF, the CAA Tri-County tournament brought rental… Read More
Tagged: CharityPhilanthropy Tri-County
When it comes to calculating school developer fees, covered walkways are off-limits.
A CAA-sponsored bill signed into law this week removes any ambiguity on the matter.
The law already says that walkways in apartment complexes – not being livable spaces like apartments themselves – can’t be assessed for the purpose of school developer fees.
But in some jurisdictions, as more builders have opted to cover walkways, they’ve incurred developer fees.
While walkway covers protect people from the elements, they’re not livable spaces and aren’t assessable, clarifies AB 715 by Assemblyman Tom Daly, D-Anaheim.
CAA sponsored this bill to make sure… Read More
Tagged: Legislation
In just four days, the Richmond City Council will again take up a proposal to institute rent control and a just-cause eviction ordinance.
CAA is calling on its members with property in Richmond to attend the Tuesday, July 21, meeting and argue against these flawed policies.
As they have in recent meetings, tenant advocates Tuesday will likely make impassioned pleas for rent control and a just-cause eviction ordinance, while arguing against the creation of a rent mediation board, the most sensible option under consideration.
It’s imperative that CAA and its members continue to dispell the myths surrounding rent control and… Read More
Tagged: Rent Control Contra CostaSolano
A panel of multifamily experts on Wednesday will discuss emerging issues, including threats to the rental housing industry and possible ways to respond.
The Leadership Networking Luncheon is from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. July 22, at Frankie, Johnny & Luigi’s Too at 11891 Dublin Blvd., Dublin. Registration runs from 12:45 to 1 p.m.
The Rental Housing Association Serving Southern Alameda County, a chapter of the California Apartment Association, is organizing the event.
Speakers include:
Joshua Howard, senior vice president of local public affairs for CAA.
John Sullivan, chairman of the RHA Mediation Committee and an apartment owner.
Verne Perry,… Read More
Get your brand in front of 600 rental housing professionals as they celebrate excellence in the rental housing industry at CAA Greater Fresno’s Mark of Distinction Awards Dinner.
Sponsorships are now available for the 18th annual event, which comes to the Fresno Convention Center on Nov. 7.
The event goes from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., and sponsorship and registration info is available by clicking below.
Tagged: Events Greater Fresno
While the economy looks good on paper, America didn’t exactly come bounding back from the Great Recession.
The recovery, according to Professor Jay Prag of the Drucker School of Management, has come slowly and strangely, hindered by a series of fiscal policy missteps, courtesy of the federal government.
“I’ve been around watching this stuff since the ’80s, and this has been a weird economic period with the United States,” said Prag, the keynote speaker at the California Apartment Association’s Professional Property Managers’ Forum in June. The CAA Greater Inland Empire event attracted about 90 rental housing professionals to the DoubleTree… Read More
Tagged: News Greater Inland Empire
Question: How long should we retain old leases at our apartment complex? I have heard two years. Is this correct?
Answer: The statute of limitations (the time one has to bring a lawsuit) for written leases is four years. Therefore, leases should be retained a minimum of four years from the date of the vacancy.
Question: One of our tenants is buying a home and gave us a 30-day notice. Now the tenant wants to extend escrow 15 more days beyond the 30-day period. The tenant is willing to pay for the additional rent. Should we require a new 30-day… Read More
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As the push to adopt rent control and just-cause eviction in Richmond gains traction, it’s vital that members of the rental housing industry band together and voice their objections.
Members can fight these flawed policies by either emailing City Council members or attending the Tuesday, July 21, council meeting.
Advocates for rent control certainly will mount a show of force, wearing yellow shirts, carrying signs and raring to testify. They’ll come from groups such as the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community Organization, Tenants Together and labor unions.
The California Apartment Association’s membership must also… Read More
Tagged: Rent Control Contra CostaSolano
After working with the apartment industry, the Burlingame City Council on Tuesday, July 7, voted to prohibit smoking inside multifamily units.
The 4-1 vote came after four months of discussions between the California Apartment Association’s Tri-County Division and the city.
CAA Tri-County’s objective centered on drafting an ordinance that would achieve Burlingame’s goal of protecting multifamily residents from second-hand smoke while also offering the clarity needed to minimize impacts on rental property owners and managers.
After receiving feedback from CAA Tri-County and multiple conversations with city leaders, the adopted ordinance:
Gives property owners and managers the option of designating an… Read More
Tagged: Smoking Tri-County
The California Apartment Association is fighting newly proposed legislation that would allow tenants to withhold rent and avoid eviction based on their own, unqualified opinions about whether apartments are outfitted with water-saving fixtures.
CAA contends that AB 723 by Assemblyman Anthony Rendon, D-Lakewood, would fail to further water conservation, while needlessly subjecting rental property owners to litigation and lost rent.
While it’s too late in the session to propose a new bill, lawmakers will sometimes get around this by jamming a new legislative proposal into an existing bill. Such is the case with AB 723, which was gutted and amended… Read More
Tagged: LegislationWater conservation