Under a newly minted law, California businesses – including those in the rental housing industry – must conduct training that educates employees about sexual…
Some time has elapsed since Proposition 64 has passed. Since the voters have legalized the recreational use of cannabis and its cultivation (with several…
When Senator Bill Dodd was forced to evacuate his NAPA home around midnight on the first night of the October fires, he couldn’t open…
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.…
Keep your recycling bin close by, as Proposition 10 season is upon us with pounds of fliers and pamphlets sure to litter your mailbox…
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…
Landlords are urged to seek legal advice before raising rents north of 10 percent after Governor Brown has once again extended price gouging protections.…
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…
Although we are heavy consumers of housing news curated around the Bay Area, we sometimes get interjected into the stories we read. Such was…
Tuesday, July 24th is a consequential day for property owners in both Oakland and Berkeley. With November marching closer, these two cities will be…
A perceived rash of resident displacement and rampant homelessness has led to clarion calls for Berkeley to increase housing stock, with the latest proposal…
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…
Oakland is at it again. As the darling of tenant advocates, the city has slowly chiseled away at owner rights like a prison break.…
Immigration law has become a combustible subject lately and while all politics are local, some are more local than others. The Bay Area has…
At Bornstein Law, we love teachers. As parents, we are the first to acknowledge the toils of educators and the indispensable role they…
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…
San Francisco’s mayoral race has become charged in a very Bay Area way in an epic battle between progressives and moderates. This New Yorker…
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…
As proud East Bay residents, we encouragingly watched Oakland become an emerging force throughout the Bay Area. Yet Bornstein Law has always maintained…
Section 8 housing has been the subject of some controversy and conflict lately. With a good deal of misinformation floating around, widespread landlord bias…
As its name implies, a tenant buy-out agreement (or in Oakland’s vernacular, a move-out agreement) is an arrangement whereby the tenant voluntarily vacates the…
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…
We came across an intriguing case of a couple that sought court intervention to force their 30-year old son to move out after overwhelming…
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…
A little bit off the mark? “After weeks of political wrangling, San Francisco is poised today to approve legislation that would allow the creation…
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…
Although tenant screening is critically important in any rental business, it seems that the law and a culture of forgiveness stand to obstruct 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…
Some time ago, we wrote an article on ‘fake’ emotional support animals and cited proposed legislation aimed at making it more difficult for a…
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…
Californians have felt the pain of the housing crunch, but perhaps no other group is more acutely affected by the shortfall than students scraping…
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…
Perhaps one of the most thankless and trying, but necessary duties of a landlord is evicting tenants when the tenant violates one of the…