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The San Jose City Council on Tuesday, June 16, will discuss whether to move forward with amendments to the city’s rent control ordinance.
The discussion is set for about 3 p.m. at San Jose City Hall, Council Chambers, 200 E. Santa Clara St.
Among the proposed changes:
Reducing the current 8 percent limit on rent increase
Eliminating the debt service pass through
Enacting a just cause eviction law
Mandating rental owners accept Section 8 vouchers
CAA Tri-County encourages local rental property owners to attend this meeting and speak against this proposal.
A “show of force” in the audience will send … Read More
Tagged: Rent Control Tri-County
State Sens. Holly Mitchell and Loni Hancock on Wednesday held a news conference on their bid to amend California’s constitution and undermine California’s Proposition 13.
SCA 5 would assess commercial and industrial properties at their market value, stripping away property tax protections under the state’s landmark law.
Under this split-roll, it appears residential property, such as rental housing, would retain the tax protections offered by the 1978 voter-approved proposition.
Getting Mitchell and Hancock’s measure before voters in 2016 would first take approval by a two-thirds majority in the state Legislature.
Support for splitting the tax roll in California, however, has… Read More
Tagged: LegislationTaxes
The Santa Rosa City Council on Tuesday rejected a temporary rent control measure after giving the public just one day’s notice that it would vote on the proposal.
The council scheduled the vote with just 24 hours public notice by declaring it an “urgency ordinance,” or a law “for preserving the public peace, health or safety.”
An urgency ordinance, which can take effect right away, has a steeper approval threshold — five of seven votes.
With little time to react, the California Apartment Association quickly called upon its members to attend the meeting and voice their concerns. This article in… Read More
Tagged: Rent Control North Bay
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
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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