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The California Apartment Association is analyzing thousands of bills introduced by the Feb. 21 deadline and is preparing to take positions on those relevant to the rental housing industry.
Below are summaries of some key measures on which CAA will likely take positions in the coming weeks:
Ellis Act — Legislation has been introduced to substantially weaken the state Ellis Act and allow local jurisdictions to prohibit rental property owners from selling or converting their buildings. This would force rental property owners to stay in business even if they are losing money.
Seismic retrofit – Legislation would require the seismic… Read More
Tagged: AdvocacyLegislation
Question: After a lease expires and it is month-to-month, how much notice must a tenant give me in order to legally terminate the lease? He says one week. Is this true?
Answer: In California, 30-days written notice is required to terminate a month-to-month tenancy and can be served by either party at any time during the tenancy. If all of the occupants have been in possession for one year or longer, the landlord must serve a 60-day notice.
Question: Someone told me that if a resident is committing a crime on the premises they can be evicted in three days. … Read More
A former California Assembly speaker delivered a dinnertime speech. The state’s legislative analyst offered a bright economic forecast. And rental housing leaders took aim at California’s drought.
These are some of the highlights from the California Apartment Association’s first board meeting of 2014, held Thursday, Feb. 20.
On the eve of the meeting, CAA held its leadership dinner, with former Assembly Speaker Bob Hertzberg as the guest speaker.
Now running for state Senate District 18, Hertzberg provided a boisterous speech that touched on a number of issues, from his own political background to the far-reaching influences of technology to how… Read More
Tagged: Leadership
The city of Anaheim on Tuesday unanimously approved a self-inspection program for multi-family housing, allowing property managers to examine apartments themselves — without paying inspection fees.
This represents a big improvement over Anaheim’s original proposal to charge property owners $16 per unit for city officials to handle the inspections.
After learning of this proposal last year, the California Apartment Association immediately began negotiations with the city.
Over a nine-month period, CAA’s South Coast/Orange County division successfully eliminated the fee and created the self-inspection program.
To show further support of CAA, the Anaheim City Council amended the ordinance during Tuesday’s meeting… Read More
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Question: Do I have to pay a tenant interest on his security deposit?
Answer: There are no state laws requiring that interest be paid on the tenant’s security deposit. However, some rent control ordinances and/or other local ordinances do require interest to be paid.
Question: We served a three-day notice to pay rent or quit. What is the latest date we could start an unlawful detainer without our three-day notice “becoming stale” and having to be re-served?
Answer: It depends on the facts of any given case, but the longer you wait, the more of an argument you are giving… Read More
AB 2405 (Ammiano, D-San Francisco)
This bill would convert all Ellis Act court filings to general civil actions; they would not fall under the usual expedited unlawful detainer eviction process as they now do. This means that Ellis Act proceedings if challenged by a tenant in court would take years to finalize. The clerk of the court would be prohibited from allowing the general public to access the court records filed in the Ellis Act civil case. The bill will also allow a city or county to completely prohibit use of the Ellis Act by owners if the city or… Read More
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Jerry Jacoby is a fourth-generation San Franciscan who lives on Filbert Street in the Russian Hill neighborhood. He was born and raised off of San Bruno Avenue and attended Lowell High School.
Aside from serving two years in the Army in the Vietnam War, Jerry has spent his entire life in The City. He raised his four children in San Francisco and spent his working life at a number of jobs as an engineer, consultant and analyst for local firms from Levi’s to Fibreboard Paper to Matson. Jerry now survives on $12,000 each year in Social Security payments.
As a… Read More
San Francisco lawmakers have introduced a pair of bills that would hamper a property owner’s ability to quit the rental housing business.
In the crosshairs of both pieces of legislation is the state’s Ellis Act.
Senate Bill 1439 by Mark Leno would bar property owners from using the Ellis Act until they’ve owned a property for at least five consecutive years. Moreover, it would prohibit a property owner from using the act on more than one property.
About 40 property owners, many chanting in Mandarin and some holding “Keep Ellis Unchanged” signs, protested the legislation during a Leno press conference… Read More
Tagged: Ellis Act
As lawmakers rush to introduce bills by today’s deadline, the California Apartment Association’s public affairs team is busy analyzing legislation and preparing to take positions on key bills for the rental housing industry.
Stay tuned for news on which bills CAA will support and oppose during this legislative session.
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Ron Granville, a real estate management professional whose experience spans five decades, has taken the gavel as the California Apartment Association’s board president for 2014.
Granville, chief executive officer and partner at Northern California-based Woodmont Real Estate Services, led his first CAA board meeting as president Thursday, Feb. 20, in Sacramento.
He said he is honored to guide an association dedicated to serving the ethical members of the state’s rental housing industry.
“Millions of Californians live in rental housing, whether large-scale apartment complexes or single-family homes,” Granville said. “At CAA, we have a great responsibility to help property owners and… Read More
Tagged: Leadership