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Question: In our lease agreements, we require tenants to pay their rent on the first of the month. If the first falls on a holiday, do you have to give the tenants until midnight on the second to pay the rent, or can you still enforce the late fee as of midnight on the first?
Answer: Rent is not “legally late” unless one business day has expired from the date the rent is due. So if the first is a weekend or holiday, the rent is not late until the next business day has expired.
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Tagged: ColumnsComplianceLegal Q&A
The California Apartment Association’s offices will be closed Monday, May 28, in observance of Memorial Day. Normal operating hours will resume Tuesday.
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Rent control activists in the city of Santa Cruz filed signatures in hopes of qualifying a rent control measure for the November ballot.
The Movement for Housing Justice submitted over 10,000 signatures, significantly more than the 5,600 required to qualify the measure.
The Santa Cruz County Registrar of Voters will now count and check the validity of the signatures, a process that the California Apartment Association will monitor closely.
The California Apartment Association has added landlord safeguards to a bill that would ensure a tenant’s ability to pay rent through a third party.
Historically, landlords have been unwilling to accept payments from third parties over concerns that a third party would claim a right to possession of the unit.
CAA worked with the author, Assemblyman Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, to prevent this from happening.
Tagged: Legislation
A movement to spread rent control throughout California has now reached the far-eastern portion of Los Angeles County.
Tenant activists have begun collecting signatures to place a rent control and “just cause” eviction measure before Ponoma voters this November.
Election officials will now determine whether a rent control initiative has qualified to appear before Inglewood voters this November.
On Tuesday, May 9, price control advocates filed more than 14,000 signatures with the city clerk. The coalition needs approximately 10,000 valid voter signatures to place the initiative on the ballot. The Inglewood City Clerk will have thirty days to verify and authenticate the signatures.
The California Apartment Association is closely monitoring this process …
The California Apartment Association’s Orange County Division has been honored for its work with Families Forward to help end homelessness in the region.
The accolades came April 28 at the 2018 Spirit of Volunteerism Awards. CAA Orange County had been nominated for the award by Families Forward.
Matt Buck, vice president of public affairs for CAA Orange County, attended the ceremony.
“It was an amazing experience to have CAA recognized at Orange County’s largest event celebrating businesses and individuals who partner with nonprofits,” Buck said.
More than 1,000 attendees watched as CAA was announced as Families Forward’s partner, and the… Read More
Question: Is there a smoke detector ordinance that requires an owner to perform an annual smoke detector inspection in each unit? If so, what is the purpose of the smoke detector agreement?
Answer: California state law does not require an annual inspection of a smoke detector inside a rented unit; however, the owner is responsible to maintain and test smoke detectors in common stairwells or other common property of the apartment community. Tenants are required to notify the owner of an inoperable smoke detector in their unit.
Tagged: ColumnsComplianceLegal Q&A
An effort to place rent control before Santa Ana voters this November has entered the signature-gathering phase.
The city attorney for Santa Ana recently gave petitioners the green light to begin circulating a petition for a measure titled the City of Santa Ana Rent Stabilization and Renters’ Rights Act. The title and summary is accessible here.
Tenant advocates filed the initiative with the city clerk in April and have been working for some time to launch their signature-gathering campaign.
Tagged: ElectionsRent Control Orange County
Less than a year after voters rejected rent control in Santa Rosa, tenant activists are attempting to return the issue to the ballot box.
Efforts are now underway to qualify a rent control and “just cause” eviction measure for city’s the November 2018 ballot.
Spearheading the initiative campaign is the North Bay Organizing Project, which needs to collect at least 8,985 valid signatures from registered Santa Rosa voters by July 6 to qualify the measure for this fall’s general election.
The proposed measure, accessible here, would limit rent increases to the inflation rate, impose strict eviction controls, establish strict guidelines… Read More