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It’s time to pick the very best that San Diego has to offer in multifamily housing.
Your nominations are essential to the California Apartment Association’s Mission Awards. The fourth annual event is scheduled for Oct. 15 at Humphrey’s By the Bay.
This year, thanks to a service called Award Hub, the nominating and judging process is easier and more efficient than ever.
To get started, property management companies in the San Diego Division simply register with Award Hub and start nominating team members. The deadline to nominate is 5 p.m. June 26.
Once nominations are complete, Jennie Bottalico, CAA’s membership… Read More
Assemblyman Adrin Nazarian’s bed bug legislation, AB 551, has won approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee. The full Senate is expected to take up the bill when the Legislature returns from its summer break. In the meantime, CAA will work with Nazarian to refine the proposal.
Nazarian, a Democrat from Van Nuys, authored the bill as bed bug infestations continue to spike both in California and across the United States.
Despite the spread of these bloodsucking pests, California law hasn’t adequately defined the role that apartment owners and renters must play in preventing and killing these bugs.
Nazarian’s bill addresses… Read More
Tagged: Bed bugs
Apartment owners and managers can plug in to new research on electric-vehicle charging stations in rental housing communities.
The 40-page Electric Vehicle Charging in Apartment-Based Housing report outlines the challenges and opportunities involved in installing EV stations.
Two consulting companies, EV Charging Pros and LightMoves, prepared the report after gathering information from stakeholders, including members of the California Apartment Association’s Tri-County Division.
Funding for the work, which also includes this PowerPoint presentation (downloadable as a pdf), came from NOVA Workforce, a nonprofit employment and training agency.
Tagged: News Tri-County
Question: I have a “Guarantee of Rental Agreement” from the mother of a tenant. The tenant is 12 days late with the rent. Do I have an obligation to notify the mother and give her the chance to pay? What is my recourse against her if she refuses to live up to the guarantee agreement?
Answer: Notifying the guarantor may be a requirement depending upon the language of the guarantee agreement. You may want to advise the guarantor in any event and send her a courtesy copy of the three-day notice before taking action.
Question: Is it necessary that a… Read More
Tagged: ColumnsComplianceLegal Q&A
The California Apartment Association helped derail legislation that would make running background checks on prospective tenants overly complicated and a magnet for unwarranted lawsuits.
In May, Assemblyman Reginald Jones-Sawyer, D-Los Angeles, withdrew this year’s efforts to pass AB 396, which got as far as the Appropriations Committee.
The author had cited four goals with AB 396:
To reduce recidivism rates by providing stable housing.
To keep families together.
To prevent homelessness.
To prohibit unfair discrimination that is based upon reasons that have no bearing on the success of a tenancy.
Despite laudable goals, AB 396 would have had several undesirable… Read More
Tagged: Crime PreventionLegislation
The state Senate this week passed a bill that would designate housing as substandard when mold is visible, however, the author says she will amend the legislation to address landlords’ concerns.
“We’ve worked with the (California) Apartment Association on amendments to this bill, which, if this bill moves forward, we will take in the first assembly policy committee that will create protections for landlords by creating a process for which the tenant must notify landlord if mold issues have arisen in their unit,” Sen. Holly Mitchell, D-Los Angeles, told her fellow senators before the vote. “Amendments also will allow for… Read More
Tagged: LegislationMold
Question: The previous owner of an apartment building I recently purchased allowed the tenants to pay half a month’s rent on the first and the other half on the 15th of the month. The lease, however, says it is all due on the first and I want to enforce the lease. What, if any, legal problems do I face?
Answer: California judges may find that there has been a modification of the payment terms of the agreement by “mutual consent and execution” of the new payment terms. Many leases have a provision which states that one waiver of strict enforcement… Read More
Tagged: ColumnsComplianceLegal Q&A
For the second straight year, state Sen. Mark Leno has conceded defeat on a bill aimed at weakening the Ellis Act, legislation that protects a landlord’s right to leave the rental housing business.
Acknowledging the collapse of SB 364 this year, Leno said he’ll take it up again in January, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
More than a month ago, SB 364 failed to advance from the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee, where the California Apartment Association mounted fierce opposition.
The bill would undermine a landlord’s right to leave San Francisco’s rental housing business. The proposal would make many rental… Read More
Tagged: Ellis ActLegislationLegislature
Expanding on a membership favorite, this year’s Tacos & Tequila event included homemade salsas and bunuelos (Mexican dessert), in addition to the usual tequila and taco tastings.
The May 7 event attracted nearly 175 people – almost twice last year’s tally.
Now in its fourth year, Tacos & Tequila took place May 7 on a sunny afternoon at The Rio Vista Promenade, a beautiful SARES-REGIS property in Mission Valley.
The purpose of Tacos & Tequila is to raise money for CAA San Diego’s Political Action Committee.
The committee helps CAA elect business-friendly officials who understand the importance of the rental… Read More
Tagged: Political Action San Diego
The state Senate on May 28 approved a pro-landlord bill that would help regulate short-term vacation rental companies such as Airbnb, HomeAway and Flipkey.
SB 761, sponsored by the California Apartment Association, would require online home-sharing sites to notify tenants that subletting their residence may constitute a lease violation. This notice would go on the websites of these burgeoning companies, which now represent a multi-billion dollar industry.
“Short-term rental websites are indeed a great part of the growing sharing economy and a valuable tool for travelers,” Hall told the Senate before its vote. “But properties listed on the sites should… Read More
Tagged: Short-term Rentals