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ONTARIO — When it comes to the economy, things are neither booming nor busting, says Professor Jay Prag of the Drucker School of Management.
Prag and Steve PonTell, chief executive officer and president of National Community Renaissance, spoke at the California Apartment Association’s Professional Property Managers’ Forum on Tuesday, Aug. 9.
The CAA Greater Inland Empire event attracted about 80 rental housing professionals to the DoubleTree Ontario Airport.
The good news is that Prag disagrees with the opinion of some economists, who are predicting another recession looming in the distance for the U.S.
He said that a condition “just isn’t… Read More
Tagged: EconomyEvents Greater Inland Empire
The California Apartment Association has updated its local compliance brochure for San Jose’s rent control ordinance, which the city made stricter effective this summer. Updates to CAA’s “Guide to Rent Control in San Jose” reflect lower maximum annual rent increases on rent-controlled units, an interim change that could become permanent.
Tagged: News Tri-County
Assemblyman Adrin Nazarian’s bedbug legislation, AB 551, has undergone a major overhaul after facing concerns by tenant groups that it may not be tough enough on property owners.
While the original version imposed protocols for bedbug eradication on landlords, tenants and pest control companies, the bill has been stripped of those provisions and now focuses on some basic duties.
After extensive meetings with both landlord and tenant groups over the summer in both Los Angeles and Sacramento, the bill will focus on:
Prohibiting landlords from leasing property that they know has a current bedbug infestation.
Encouraging tenants who suspect bedbugs… Read More
Tagged: Bed bugsLegislation
Following mandates under the state election code, city councils for San Mateo and Burlingame on Monday voted to place rent control on their respective ballots in the November election.
As reported last month at caanet.org, election officials had confirmed that rent control advocates in San Mateo collected the 7,119 signatures required to place the initiative before voters. As required by state law, the City Council voted to place the issue on the Nov. 8 ballot.
If passed by voters, the charter amendment would implement San Francisco-style rent control in the city and create a rent board with no accountability to… Read More
Members of the California Apartment Association have come together once again to help some of Los Angeles’ most vulnerable residents.
On Thursday, July 21, CAA Los Angeles held its second annual Summer Soirée, a rooftop networking event that raises money to benefit the homeless.
About 140 people attended Summer Soirée, enjoying an evening of live music, food, drinks and exceptional networking.
Proceeds from the event go to Home For Good, an initiative of United Way of Greater Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce that seeks to end chronic and veteran homelessness.
This year’s Summer Soirée raised… Read More
For years, the California Apartment Association has pushed for a fair and cost-effective bill that governs water submeters in new apartment construction while allowing owners to pass along associated costs to tenants.
CAA is optimistic that, after more work, Senate Bill 7 may fulfill these goals, ultimately saving precious water in a state that continues to face challenges with lack of rainfall.
SB 7 by Sen. Lois Wolk, D-Davis, includes provisions to clarify how multifamily property owners can charge tenants for water use, and it allows for late fees and eviction when tenants don’t pay their bills.
Submeters gauge water… Read More
Tagged: LegislationWater conservation
California law generally allows the owner to terminate a month-to month tenancy on 30 or 60 days notice, depending on how long the residents have lived there. By contrast, a fixed-term lease can only be terminated by the owner on three days’ notice for cause. Depending on the reason, the notice may include an opportunity to cure – such as the three-day notice to pay rent or quit. Notices of termination frequenty generate questions for CAA’s Landlord Helpline. Some recent questions:
IS SERVICE OF A 30- OR 60-DAY NOTICE CONSIDERED “EVICTION?”
No. These notices terminated a tenancy as allowed by… Read More
Tagged: Compliance
The California Apartment Association is preparing to fight a rent control and just-cause eviction measure that qualified this week for the November ballot in Richmond.
The Contra Costa County Registrar of Voters on Tuesday, July 12, certified that rent control proponents collected a sufficient number of valid signatures to place the measure before voters in the general election.
The measure includes rent control based on the consumer price index, as well as a just-cause-for-eviction provision.
“Rent control is a failed policy that doesn’t work and provides little, if any, relief to the low-income families who need the so-called benefits of… Read More
The Santa Rosa City Council next week will consider adopting an “urgency” just-cause-for-eviction ordinance, which would require rental property owners to prove “cause” in court or before a political body every time they need to remove a problem resident.
An “urgency” ordinance, on the Tuesday, July 19 agenda, would require a five-vote majority for passage and would take effect immediately. If the urgency ordinance fails to garner the necessary five votes, a “non-urgency” just-cause-eviction ordinance will be introduced and would only require four votes, and if passed at a second reading, would take effect 30 days later.
CAA opposes this… Read More
Tagged: Just Cause Eviction North Bay
A voter petition to repeal Burlingame’s longstanding law against rent control fails to meet requirements under California’s election code and cannot legally appear on the November ballot.
The full text of Measure T — which the initiative seeks to overturn — is missing from the petition, which CAA’s lawyers argue invalidates the ballot measure under state law.
Bell, McAndrews & Hiltachk, a law firm representing the California Apartment Association, points out the initiative’s legal deficiencies in a July 1 letter to Burlingame’s city clerk.
“By omitting the full text of the proposal as the Elections Code mandates, voters were deprived… Read More