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CAA North Coast would like to thank the sponsors and attendees at our inaugural PAC fundraiser.
Over 50 attendees, including local elected officials, candidates and local business affiliates, attended PAC Derby Day at Fountaingrove Inn in Santa Rosa.
The May 19 Derby-themed evening included networking and fun.
Attendees donned large hats, colorful dresses, and even jockey costumes, competing for our “Best Dressed” contest.
Your generous contributions helped us reach our fundraising goal of $25,000.
Thanks again to our generous sponsors:
Winners Circle:
Pine Creek Properties
Triple Crown:
North Bay Association of REALTORS
Renaissance Housing Communities
Woodmont Real Estate Services
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Tagged: Political Action North Bay
Starting June 16, many owners of multifamily housing in Santa Rosa will face a 3 percent cap on rent increases.
The council preliminarily approved the 45-day measure May 10 and ratified it May 17, despite fierce opposition from the California Apartment Association North Coast.
Hundreds of rental owners opposed the measure through letters, emails and phone calls. Members and staff testified against the moratorium at council meetings, saying it would hurt small businesses and drive a wedge between property owners and the city. Click here to see video of testimony against the moratorium.
Renter advocates said it will keep rents… Read More
Stricter rent control limits in San Jose will take effect June 17 – many months earlier than expected.
Under the changes, owners can raise rents on rent-controlled units by 5 percent per year. That’s down from the current 8 percent.
The council ratified the June start date on a 9-2 vote at its May 17 meeting.
The lower rent cap is among sweeping changes to the city’s 40-year-old rent control law. The council approved the revisions in April on a 6-5 vote, despite strong opposition from CAA and hundreds of rental owners over the past year.
At the time of… Read More
Tagged: Rent Control
Question: How can we determine if roaches in an apartment were the result of bad housekeeping? Is it our responsibility to get rid of the roaches?
Answer: Ask your pest control professional to give his or her opinion on how the roaches came into the apartment unit. The court will rely heavily on expert testimony in these cases. If you can prove the tenant was responsible for the infestation, they are responsible for the cost of removal.
Question: If our tenant sublets, and the sublessee defaults in the rent, do I give a notice to the tenant or the sublessee?… Read More
Tagged: ColumnsComplianceLegal Q&A
About 50 protesters stormed the headquarters of the California Apartment Association in Sacramento on the morning of Monday, May 16, shaking their fists and demanding rent control.
Shortly past 11:15 a.m., activits wearing yellow shirts barged into CAA’s downtown suite, chanting “Greedy landlords, you can’t hide!”
The demonstrators, arriving unannounced from the Los Angeles-based Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, then clustered shoulder-to-shoulder outside the office of Chief Executive Officer Tom Bannon.
Within moments, Bannon opened his door and calmly made his way through the chanting throng.
Once Bannon reached the middle of the crowd, a representative of the group… Read More
Tagged: News
Beginning June 1, 2016, rental agreements for properties with wood-burning heaters or fireplaces throughout the San Francisco Bay Area must include a document describing the health hazards from burning wood or any solid fuel as a source of heat.
The disclosure document is required within the boundaries of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, which includes all of the following counties: Napa, Contra Costa, Alameda, Santa Clara, San Mateo, San Francisco and Marin, and part of Solano and Sonoma counties. Exact boundaries can be found here.
The disclosure requirement is part of the air quality district’s wood smoke rule,… Read More
Gov. Jerry Brown’s May revision to California’s spending plan would improve housing affordability by making it cheaper and easier for developers to build multifamily communities.
Released this past Friday, the governor’s May revision espouses legislative changes to lift local obstacles to residential development. It favors market-based solutions, such as streamlining the development process, over costly government subsidies that help comparatively few people.
“Hopefully, the supply is going to bring down the cost,” Brown said in this Los Angeles Times story. “Otherwise, through subsidies and through restrictions, we’re just spending more and more tax dollars and getting very, very little.”
Brown’s… Read More
Tagged: Affordable housingLegislation
Question: I have a two-bedroom apartment rented to two roommates. One roommate always pays the rent on time. The other roommate is habitually late. Can I do an eviction based on a partial payment even though the month is not over?
Answer: Both tenants are responsible for the entire amount of the rent so long as they are on the same rental agreement/lease. You should serve a three-day notice to pay rent or quit for the balance of the rent and name both roommates. If they do not comply, commence an unlawful detainer action naming both.
Question: I believe that… Read More
Tagged: ColumnsComplianceLegal Q&A
Stricter rent control in San Jose is now scheduled to take effect next month, but much unfinished business remains in revising the city’s long-standing rent law.
On Tuesday, the council voted 9-2 to implement its upcoming 5 percent annual cap on rent increases beginning June 17. The current limit is 8 percent.
The changes will affect about 44,000 apartments already under rent control through the city’s Apartment Rent Ordinance. While a June implementation date is sooner than many property owners expected, it could have been worse.
One councilman, Raul Peralez, attempted to implement the changes immediately, a move that CAA… Read More
Tagged: Rent Control Tri-County
Thanks to a bill signed into law this week, mom-and-pop rental property owners won’t have to worry quite as much about abusive disability-access lawsuits.
Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed SB 269 by Sen. Richard Roth, D-Riverside. Under certain circumstances, the bill provides business owners with more time to fix minor ADA compliance violations before being subject to costly court battles.
For example, the law will protect small-business owners from liability for minimum statutory damages in a construction-related accessibility claim for the 120 days following a voluntary inspection by a certified access specialist. Under certain conditions, the business could then… Read More