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Photos by Jon Endow More than 110 golfers have helped the California Apartment Association raise thousands of dollars to fight homelessness in the Inland Empire. On June 25, CAA’s 20th Annual Summer Scramble Charity Tournament generated $10,000 for HomeAid Inland Empire. CAA held the Summer Scramble  at The Retreat in the city of Corona. “We were very pleased to team up with HomeAid again this year and excited that we met our goal in doubling last year’s $5,000 golf tournament contribution amount,” said Jennifer Bedford, chairwoman of CAA’s Inland Empire board. HomeAid, whose mission is to provide dignified temporary housing… Read More

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The California Apartment Association’s property management webinar series returns this month, imparting the knowledge needed to successfully manage rental housing while offering newly approved CalBRE continuing education credits. Students who complete the Fair Housing: It’s the Law (PMR107) or Ethics in Property Management (PMR108) will now earn continuing-education credits from the California Bureau of Real Estate. Each webinar is worth three hours of credit in the fair housing and ethics categories, respectively. Take both for six hours of credit. More information. Completing the entire series, which consists of nine courses, makes students eligible for CCRM certification, the gold standard in… Read More

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Halfway through 2014, California lawmakers are a week into their summer recess. You can probably picture it: Legislators back home, updating constituents at town hall meetings and Rotary luncheons, talking up bills they authored, stumped for and stomped down. At the California Apartment Association, we’re as eager as anyone to talk about our continued successes during the past six months in Sacramento. With guidance from CAA’s Legislative Steering Committee, CAA analyzed and lobbied for or against more than 70 bills that could help or hurt the rental housing industry. As you’ll see below, we have had great success stopping the… Read More

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When the city of Antioch needed help passing a half-cent sales tax last year, the California Apartment Association answered the call. As CAA members generously supported the city’s Measure C campaign, the Antioch City Council chose not to place a residential landlord business license tax on the same ballot. Thanks in part to the rental housing industry’s political support, the sales tax initiative sailed to victory in November, and Antioch began collecting additional revenue in April. Through the measure, Antioch expects to collect a little over $4 million. The City Council promised to spend the money fighting crime, hiring 22… Read More

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Riverside County has stepped back from plans to more than double the developer fees earmarked for county jail beds – at least for now. Early this month, the Board of Supervisors postponed a vote to rework its developer fee schedule after hearing concerns from the California Apartment Association and the local building industry, The Press Enterprise reported in this article. Under the proposal, the total fee for single-family homes would drop from $4,651 to $4,318, but the amount to deal with jail crowding would balloon from $392 to $885. Developer fees help pay for infrastructure needs caused by new residential… Read More

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After hearing from numerous rental owners and managers, the San Carlos City Council has reduced sewer rates for owners of multi-family housing by nearly 15 percent. The new rates take effect July 1. The council’s 4-1 vote on the issue came during its Monday, June 23 meeting. The lone no vote came from a council member who wanted a more modest, 6 percent rate reduction. After negotiating with the city for over a year, CAA and a coalition of San Carlos rental property owners secured the new pricing model. CAA Tri-County demonstrated that the current rate structure that charged a… Read More

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An Assembly committee Wednesday, June 25, rejected a bill that would have allowed school districts to impose different parcel tax rates on different types of property. SB 1021 by Sen. Lois Wolk, D-Davis, received one yes vote and three no votes, with five abstentions, in the Revenue and Taxation Committee. The legislation faced opposition from the California Apartment Association and dozens of other business groups. If SB 1021 had become law, school districts would have been able to charge varying parcel tax rates within a district based on characteristics such as parcel size, improvements to the parcel, or the use… Read More

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A CAA-opposed bill that would allow school districts to impose different parcel tax rates on different types of property heads to its first Assembly committee next week. If SB 1021 by Sen. Lois Wolk, D-Davis, becomes law, school districts would be able to levy one parcel tax rate on single-family homes while charging other rates on apartments and commercial properties. This split-roll tax bill, which goes before the Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee on Wednesday, June 25, would let school districts to set parcel tax rates within a district based on characteristics such as parcel size, improvements to the parcel,… Read More

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Thanks to the California Apartment Association, a new ban on smoking in Foster City apartment communities will have little impact on landlords. On a 3-2 vote, the City Council passed an anti-smoking ordinance June 2 that will prohibit the activity inside apartments and common areas. The ban includes e-cigarettes. The city had originally decided to exclude apartments from its smoking prohibitions, but faced with mounting pressure from public health advocates and tenants, the council reconsidered its position. CAA Tri-County immediately began months of negotiations with the city to minimize effects and eliminate liability for rental property owners. Thanks to these… Read More

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Proposed changes to warning requirements under Proposition 65 fail to clarify when signs are needed and pose unnecessary burdens and risks to the rental housing industry, the California Apartment Association said this month. These are among the sentiments in CAA’s June 9 comments to the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), regarding the agency’s pre-regulatory proposal to change the warnings required under Prop 65. CAA’s comments also ask that its members be permitted to continue using current Prop 65 warning signs, which differ only slightly from those proposed by OEHHA. Extensive comments were also submitted by the California Chamber… Read More

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