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People and Politics

2020 Most Influential People in Housing

Takeaways from TransUnion’s Rental Housing Financial Impact Study
Housing Policy

Takeaways from TransUnion’s Rental Housing Financial Impact Study

Proposal to compel landlords to accept guarantors
Fair Housing Laws

Proposal to compel landlords to accept guarantors

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2020 Most Influential People in Housing
People and Politics

2020 Most Influential People in Housing

Takeaways from TransUnion’s Rental Housing Financial Impact Study
Housing Policy

Takeaways from TransUnion’s Rental Housing Financial Impact Study

Proposal to compel landlords to accept guarantors
Fair Housing Laws

Proposal to compel landlords to accept guarantors

Orange skies a metaphor for landlords
Coronavirus

Orange skies a metaphor for landlords

Billionaires please stand up
Coronavirus

Billionaires please stand up

The appeal of tenant buyout agreements have come full circle
Coronavirus

The appeal of tenant buyout agreements have come full circle

Judicial council picks winners and losers during the pandemic
Coronavirus

Judicial council picks winners and losers during the pandemic

What is happening under the dome of the Capitol
Legislative Updates

What is happening under the dome of the Capitol

Sexual Harassment

New sexual harassment training law reverberates to rental housing

Cannabis in Rental Units

Landlords get protections in marijuana-cultivation law

Some time has elapsed since Proposition 64 has passed. Since the voters have legalized the recreational use of cannabis and its cultivation (with several…

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Just Cause Eviction

Evictees buy more time under new law

Starting in September 2019, tenants facing evictions will be afforded more time to answer eviction proceedings under a new bill recently signed into law.…

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Legislative Updates

Wildfire-Inspired Garage Door Safety Bill

Oakland

Oakland’s anti-loitering law brings nuisances into focus

Some habits are annoying to this author, but it might be okay with you, and you might even be the perpetrator of the peeving behavior.…

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Oakland

Oakland substantial rehabilitation exemption put on the chopping block

San Francisco and Oakland are in a rather exclusive club by allowing landlords to exempt buildings from rent control because of “substantial rehabilitation,” though…

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Costa Hawkins

SF City And Landlords In Quandary If Proposition 10 Passes

Landlord-Tenant Law

The hard part of ‘no eviction without representation’

Renters make up nearly two-thirds of all San Francisco households, and they rallied to make history on June 5th by passing Proposition F, a…

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Legislative Updates

What landlords should know when tenants seek emergency assistance

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.…

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Landlord-Tenant Law

Price gouging bans on rental units amid an emergency decleration

Insurance

What Flo and Mr. Mayhem will not tell rental property owners

Click on the television and you will likely be greeted with insurance ads. Geico has the most marketing muscle, but you’ll also be graced…

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People and Politics

Interesting and influential people in California housing

In an ongoing series, we profile the people who are disrupting the rental housing industry, shaping the housing debate in California, or just interesting…

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Oakland

Oakland ups the ante on tenant protections

Legislative Updates

Ballot measure hearings in both Oakland and Berkeley Tuesday

Tuesday, July 24th is a consequential day for property owners in both Oakland and Berkeley. With November marching closer, these two cities will be…

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Landlord-Tenant Law

Richmond Rent Control

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…

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Landlord-Tenant Law

Berkeley Rent Control

Landlord-Tenant Law

Rent control in well-to-do communities

After a hyper-focus on San Francisco and Oakland, we expand our trek to other Bay Area locales that have unique housing issues. Santa Clara…

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San Jose

Landlords in the crossfire of San Jose’s growth

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…

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Oakland

Oakland continues down a slippery slope

Landlord-Tenant Law

What landlords should know amid the immigration debate

Immigration law has become a combustible subject lately and while all politics are local, some are more local than others. The Bay Area has…

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Landlord-Tenant Law

Parking issues in rental units

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…

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Legislative Updates

SF eviction protections for educators and students now cemented

Costa Hawkins

Rental housing industry uneasy as rent control agenda advances

With the wind against the backs of tenant advocates, rental housing providers are getting nervous about efforts to repeal the decades-old Costa Hawkins Rental…

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Legislative Updates

Our take on new SF law entitling evictees to free legal representation

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…

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People and Politics

Decision Day Tuesday in San Francisco

Landlord-Tenant Law

Handling criminal activity in rental units

In the vast majority of cases of strained landlord-tenant relationships that cross our desk, a tenant’s alleged transgression is “curable,” meaning the tenant can…

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Legislative Updates

Debt service and property tax pass-throughs go the way of the dinosaur

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…

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Oakland

Oakland tenant relocation payments

Section 8 Housing

Our legal takes on Section 8

Section 8 housing has been the subject of some controversy and conflict lately. With a good deal of misinformation floating around, widespread landlord bias…

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Landlord-Tenant Law

Tenant lawsuits proliferate throughout the Bay Area

When rental relationships sour, even the most studious investment property owners can be slapped with a lawsuit that may cost tens of thousands of…

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Oakland

Making sense of Oakland’s Tenant Move-Out Agreement Ordinance

Airbnb & Short-Term Rentals

Half of SF Airbnb listings nixed overnight

Airbnb may have won many people’s choice awards, but it hasn’t gotten many points with its hometown. Now, the city seems to have tamed…

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Housing Policy

1970s-era environmental law assailed as an impediment to housing construction

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…

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Landlord-Tenant Law

Judge orders 30-year man to vacate parents house, bringing forcible detainer actions into focus

Fair Housing Laws

Immigrant Tenant Rights Protected by Law

Immigration was a divisive topic in 2017, but California has been the capital of democratic resistance in the Trump era, making a concerted effort to…

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Just Cause Eviction

Court Upholds Eviction Protections for Educators

We have always acknowledged the crucially important and difficult role of teachers, so Bornstein Law was encouraged to see that their toil in their…

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In Law Units

SF In Law Units Fall Abysmally Short of Projections

Sexual Harassment

Sexual Harassment Trickles Down to Rental Housing Industry

As heavy consumers of Bay Area housing news, we came across this article chronicling the plight of Cindy Chau, a tenant who thought she found a…

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Fair Housing Laws

Rental Advertising Colliding With Fair Housing Law

Calvin Coolidge once said that “advertising is the life of trade.” For the rental property industry, we might also add that advertising is the…

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Tenant Screening

Law Poised to Invalidate Tenant Screening Reports & Technology

Housing Policy

3D Printing an Answer to Affordable Housing?

“We print buildings” is the motto of Apis Cor, a Russian based company that has a unique mobile 3D building printer that is capable of…

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Fair Housing Laws

Facebook Discrimination Lawsuit Instructive for Landlords

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…

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Emotional Support Animals

Legislative Efforts to Address Fake Emotional Support Animals

Landlord-Tenant Law

Handling Unauthorized Tenant Alterations

We’ve all seen and heard the inspirational home improvement commercials about doing and saving. It goes something like, “we’ve got this, look what we’ve…

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Landlord-Tenant Law

Update on the Leaning Tower of San Francisco

Since its debut on 60 Minutes, we wanted to circle back to the “leaning tower” of San Francisco to see if any progress has…

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Housing Policy

Students and Educators Feel the Brunt of Housing Shortage

In Law Units

Law Surrounding Accessory Dwelling Units or ‘Granny Flats’

Law Surrounding Accessory Dwelling Units, Aka ‘Granny Flats’ Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs), colloquially known as in-law units or granny flats, are gaining popularity throughout the…

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Tenant Screening

Tenant Screening Hampered by Ease of Concealment

Tenant Screening Becomes More Difficult As Concealing Checkered Pasts Become Easier Clearly, tenant screening is one of the most important aspects of your rental business,…

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Landlord-Tenant Law

Surefire Ways to Lose an Unlawful Detainer Action

Fair Housing Laws

Income Discrimination & Fair Housing

Finding a model tenant who pays rent on time, studiously cares for the rental unit, and is a good neighbor can be a challenging…

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    • 2020 Most Influential People in Housing
    • Takeaways from TransUnion’s Rental Housing Financial Impact Study
    • Proposal to compel landlords to accept guarantors
    • Orange skies a metaphor for landlords
    • Billionaires please stand up
    • The appeal of tenant buyout agreements have come full circle
    • Judicial council picks winners and losers during the pandemic
    • What is happening under the dome of the Capitol
    • Tenants advocates rewrite laws under guise of COVID
    • Landlords and property managers shine through during COVID
    • Clandestine tenant protections in Oakland emergency ordinance
    • Landlords seek help to cushion a shortfall in rental income
    • New HUD guidelines on assistance animals
    • The war being waged against vacant properties
    • SF owners may soon be exposed to new eviction controls
    • Feds finally take on phony comfort animal documentation
    • Resolutions for landlords in 2020
    • ‘Second Chance’ laws raise weighty moral and legal issues
    • Handling tenancies and unwanted occupants when the landlord passes
    • Airbnb Halloween Massacre Raises Scary Legal Issues
    • New state housing laws salute the armed services
    • Lower bar being set for Accessory Dwelling Units
    • Prospect for statewide rent control becomes bleaker for rental housing
    • Proactive rental inspection programs aim to nip problems in the bud
    • Price gouging bans for landlords in aftermath of earthquakes and other disasters
    • The psychology of landlord-tenant relationships
    • Nonprofits get first crack at SF multifamily buildings
    • Redefining single family homes opens the floodgates to rent control
    • Anti vaping revolution extends to rental units
    • Withholding rent in the spirit of protest
    • Domestic Violence in rental housing and VAWA in HUD units
    • Yabba Dabba Don’t Lawsuit For Flinstone House
    • Housing choice vouchers: the good, bad and ugly
    • Tenants’ rights agenda advances in California Legislature
    • Documentation considerations for landlords
    • Evidence that should be brought to an unlawful detainer trial
    • California security deposits 101
    • Owner occupied duplexes and triplexes now subject to Oakland rent control
    • Man sues parents for being born, our takes and we draw parallels
    • Landlord murdered attempting to evict tenants
    • New law governs third party rent payments
    • For Redwood City landlords, rental relationships may be until death do us part
    • Vacant property owners a whipping boy with new tax
    • Ringing in the New Year with new laws for rental property owners
    • Owners challenge constitutionality of tenant relocation payments
    • Modifying due dates for renters receiving SSDI benefits
    • Last call to bring plumbing fixtures up to compliance
    • The difficult prospect of evicting a relative
    • Squatter rights rival those of owners as they overtake properties
    • What the election results mean for landlords
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