In California, the citizen is the legislator if they pay $200 and manage to get a few hundred thousand signatures with a clipboard to…
Starting in September 2019, tenants facing evictions will be afforded more time to answer eviction proceedings under a new bill recently signed into law.…
San Francisco and Oakland are in a rather exclusive club by allowing landlords to exempt buildings from rent control because of “substantial rehabilitation,” though…
A perennial issue we’ve had at Bornstein Law has been communicating the law when it sometimes has the shelf life of a banana peel.…
In an ongoing series, we profile the people who are disrupting the rental housing industry, shaping the housing debate in California, or just interesting…
There have been spirited discussions on rent control throughout the Bay Area, but we can’t seem to recall a debate so cantankerous as the…
In between practicing law and going on the speaking circuit lately to talk about the ever-evolving rent control rules of San Francisco and Oakland, there’s…
This author always enjoyed watching Parking Wars, A&E’s popular reality television series that follows traffic enforcement employees as they ticket, “boot,” tow and release…
Tenant advocates are in a celebratory mood after Proposition F sailed to victory in Tuesday’s special election. In an only-in-San-Francisco moment, 56 percent of the voters…
Until recently, San Francisco was the only major Bay Area city with rent-control laws to allow landlords to pass on portions of property taxes…
When rental relationships sour, even the most studious investment property owners can be slapped with a lawsuit that may cost tens of thousands of…
At Bornstein Law, we marvel at California’s scenery and are the first to recognize that all of us must be good stewards of the…
We have always acknowledged the crucially important and difficult role of teachers, so Bornstein Law was encouraged to see that their toil in their…
Calvin Coolidge once said that “advertising is the life of trade.” For the rental property industry, we might also add that advertising is the…
With Facebook embroiled in controversy as of late, it’s gone from bad to worse. Now is the perfect time for landlords and property managers…
Since its debut on 60 Minutes, we wanted to circle back to the “leaning tower” of San Francisco to see if any progress has…