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For our second highlights video from CAA’s legislative recap webinar, we review six bills that failed in 2014.
Each of these bills would have affected the rental housing industry — especially two proposals that threatened the Ellis Act. This landmark state law, passed in the mid 1980s, protects a landlord’s right to leave the apartment business. While dead for now, some of these bills may resurface in 2015.
Learn more through the videos below, which we’ve produced exclusively for CAA members.
You may also be interested in our first highights video, which focuses on six rental housing-related bills becoming law… Read More
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The California Apartment Association is encouraging rental housing managers to participate in a survey to help fight bed bugs in multi-family housing.
CAA is collaborating with the University of California on the study, which includes an electronic survey that takes 10 to 15 minutes to complete.
Take the survey
Click here for the University of California’s Bed Bug Survey website, where property managers can learn more about the project and participate in the study.
UC researchers want to assess the impact bed bugs have on California’s housing industry while gathering information about bed bug management practices in the state’s multi-unit… Read More
For the second time this fall, a division of the California Apartment Association has formally changed its name to more clearly reflect the region it serves.
CAA South Coast is now CAA Orange County. Melinda Graham, chairwoman of the division, announced the official new name during the division’s annual meeting Dec. 5.
The announcement came just a few weeks after the association announced that CAA-AAGIE is now CAA Greater Inland Empire. News of this name change came at CAA Greater Inland Empire’s Tapped & Uncorked event.
As part of a statewide rebranding initiative, each CAA division reassessed its name. Stay… Read More
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The California Apartment Association’s work with San Mateo County has helped shape an ordinance that protects residents from smoking while limiting the liability of rental property owners.
The county, including the Board of Supervisors and county counsel, partnered with CAA Tri-County since May 2013 to protect property owners’ and managers’ interests in the regulations.
This resulted in wording amenable to the industry because it provides:
Liability protection.
The ability to designate a smoking area.
A 14-month phase-in period.
No requirements to post “No Smoking” signage in each unit.
The ordinance, approved by supervisors on a 4-1 vote Tuesday, Oct. 21,… Read More
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With core values like excellence, leadership, service and community, it’s no wonder that GSF Properties in Fresno is holding a fundraiser this month to help families affected by autism.
Dan McCoy, vice president of operations at GSF, talked about the fundraiser, Evening Under the Stars, in an October 2014 Fresno Bee article.
“Service is something we are very passionate about,” McCoy, a CAA Fresno board member, said in the story. “We touch a lot of people’s lives every day by providing them with homes. We feel that giving back to the communities where those homes are located is a natural… Read More
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San Francisco will legalize short-term rentals like those offered online by AirBnB, but that greenlight comes with some stipulations – and lingering concerns among both landlord and tenant groups.
The Board of Supervisors’ approval of vacation rentals came Tuesday, with a second and final vote expected later this month.
“The status quo isn’t working; we have seen an explosion in short-term rentals,” Board President David Chiu said, according to this San Francisco Chronicle article.
The story says the ordinance, which lifts the city’s ban on residential rentals shorter than 30 days, is set to take effect in February and will:… Read More
Steven R. Hrdlicka, an attorney and member of the California Apartment Association’s Fresno board, will discuss laws affecting landlords and tenants on Welcome Home Radio this Saturday morning.
Don Scordino, past president of the Fresno Association of Realtors, will host the show, which airs from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. on ESPN 940 AM. It can be heard from Bakersfield to Sacramento and the Sierras to the Central Coast.
Hrdlicka will cover topics such as how to evict a delinquent tenant, and how a tenant can get a landlord to make necessary repairs in a timely manner.
Listeners can call… Read More
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The California Apartment Association’s first Greater Bay Area Rental Housing Reverse Trade Show came to Oakland this month, earning positive reviews.
Over 150 representatives from 10 of the Bay Area’s leading property management companies met with more than 50 industry partners.
The event, held Sept. 10 at the Scottish Rite Center, started with a networking lunch that segued into scheduled 10-minute meetings.
In a role reversal compared with a traditional trade show, the management companies were the exhibitors, and the industry partners were the attendees, getting valuable face time with prospective customers.
In light of the positive feedback, CAA plans… Read More
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Several California cities have regained a novel legal tool for ridding apartments of drug and gun offenders.
On Monday, Sept. 15, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a pair of bills, both supported by the California Apartment Association, that allow city prosecutors and city attorneys to file eviction lawsuits against certain types of criminal defendants in specified cities where a landlord requests assistance. The bills extend for five years pilot programs that expired at the end of 2013.
AB 2485 by Assemblyman Roger Dickinson, D-Sacramento, authorizes a city attorney or prosecutor, rather than the landlord or property owner, in Sacramento to initiate… Read More
Aliso Viejo’s proposed ban on smoking in multi-family housing fizzled this week as the City Council decided to consider adding a city ombudsman instead.
Such an advocate would likely listen to residents’ complaints and suggestions and help address their concerns, whether they focus on smoking or other issues.
Nearly a dozen CAA Orange County members provided critical public comment during the meeting.
The City Council made the decision late Wednesday after nearly two years of debate.
City staff had recommended against a smoking prohibition, contending that smoking in apartments is a private matter between apartment owners and tenants.
Thanks to… Read More
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