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The California Apartment Association is delighted to unveil its new website.
With its streamlined pages and intuitive search tools, navigating CAAnet.org is a snap.
Click the dropdown menus and links on the sides to quickly access legal information, rental housing forms and other vital tools.
When you have a few minutes, explore the beefed-up news pages, the blog and content-rich portals for CAA’s local associations. Check back for frequent updates.
CAA’s digital team is here to save you time, spare you frustration and improve your online experience.
We’d love to hear your thoughts. Email Mike Nemeth, strategic communications manager, at… Read More
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A bill signed by Gov. Brown this week gives survivors of human trafficking the right to terminate residential leases to protect themselves against their abusers.
The law also strengthens existing protections for survivors of domestic violence who are forced to vacate a rental property for their personal safety.
Authored by Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, SB 612 allows a tenant to precipitate the move-out process by providing the landlord with a written report, prepared by a medical provider, declaring that abuse occurred.
This increases protections for victims of crimes including domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, elder or dependent abuse, and… Read More
Tagged: AdvocacySafety Domestic Violence
Over the past week, the California Apartment Association has negotiated more positive amendments into Sen. Lois Wolk’s bill on water sub-meters, resolving one of the rental housing industry’s biggest concerns: penalties.
Under new changes to SB 750, all penalty provisions have been removed. Those terms would have imposed attorneys’ fees and penalties against landlords and their billing agents if they failed to follow the provisions of Wolk’s sub-meter legislation, even if minor missteps were made.
In addition, the author has agreed to extend the sub-meter installation requirement for an additional year – to 2016. Moreover, the parties have agreed to… Read More
Tagged: AdvocacyUtility Rates
The San Diego U-T reports that despite rising rental prices, vacancies continue to shrink, a trend especially evident in the downtown area. The article also offers a forecast for demand — both single-family homes and rentals — construction and financing.
Tagged: Rental PricesVacancy Rates
Boring community room at your apartment complex? Borrow a page from the Big Apple, where apartment lending libraries have emerged as a quiet, thoughtful amenity, according to the New York Times.
With some space, bookshelves and paperbacks, you’re on your way to adding a cheap and easy amenity to your rental property.
Check out these tips from Zillow to get started.
The San Jose City Council has approved a pilot program to allow rental property owners to self-certify their compliance with the city’s Multiple Housing Occupancy Permit requirements.
This move, proposed by Vice Mayor Madison Nguyen, could save rental property owners time and money while allowing the city to focus its inspection efforts on those rental properties that truly pose safety issues to the occupants and the community.
The pilot program was included in Mayor Chuck Reed’s 2013-14 budget this month and begins a process for Code Enforcement to work with CAA Tri-County to develop a program that will likely allow… Read More
Tagged: AdvocacyInspections Tri-County
The California Apartment Association wishes to thank the lawmakers who voted down a bill that would have unfairly penalized landlords who make honest calculations regarding security deposits.
Thanks also go out to the rental-housing professionals who took part in CAA’s letter-writing campaign to defeat the bill.
On May 29, Senator Mark Leno’s SB 603 received 18 no votes, 13 yes votes, and 8 abstentions. The bill needed 21 yes votes to pass.
The no votes came from the following senators: Joel Anderson, R-San Diego; Tom Berryhill, R-Twain Harte; Ron Calderon, D-Montebello; Anthony Cannella, R-Ceres; Lou Correa, D-Santa Ana; Bill Emmerson,… Read More
After a successful debut this past spring, the California Apartment Association’s property management webinar series returns this summer to a computer near you.
The upcoming slate of online courses is from July 15 through Sept. 25.
The inaugural webinar series, which ran from March through May, attracted students from Ukiah to Oxnard. Comments from students underscore the quality – and convenience — of CAA’s distance-learning program.
“Many students said this was the only way they could attend classes,” said Jim Lofgren, executive director of the Rental Housing Association of Sacramento Valley, a chapter of CAA. “Some would have needed to… Read More
Tagged: Education
Following the lead of other cities in the Silicon Valley, San Jose is considering a fee on new development to help pay for affordable housing.
This article in the Silicon Valley Business Journal focuses on a San Jose City Council vote approving a “nexus study” on such a fee.
Under California law, before a local jurisdiction can assess a development fee, it must establish a nexus, or “reasonable relationship,” between the purpose of the charge and the type of development proposed. Many jurisdictions have interpreted the word “reasonable” quite broadly, leading to fees that may not truly fulfill the nexus… Read More
Tagged: AdvocacyAffordable housing Tri-County
The Sacramento City Council has unanimously approved major changes to its rental-inspection ordinance and fee schedule – a move that could save qualifying landlords thousands of dollars annually.
The 7-0 vote Tuesday ends a five-year battle over reforming the program, which will now allow self-certification of rental properties when a previous city inspection found no violations, or violations were corrected on time, and all fees are current.
The change will result in a 43 percent reduction in the inspection fee and save rental owners in the city $1.1 million annually.
“At a time when local governments around the state are… Read More
Tagged: AdvocacyInspections Sacramento Valley