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- Category: Costa Hawkins
- Proposition 10 is About Local Control, Nothing Else
- Repeal Costa Hawkins? It’s the Democrats, Stupid.
- Screwed by Costa Hawkins
- Is My Landlord Lying, Claiming We Don’t Have Rent Control?
- Do I Have To Move Out If The Condo I’m Renting Goes On The Market?
- You May Not Have To Sign That Lease, But Here’s Why You May Want To
- My Master Tenant’s Fallen In Love, Am I Screwed?
- My New Landlord Wants To Jack Up My Rent For “O & M” Expenses Passthrough
- When I Break The Lease, Is My Roommate Screwed?
- Category: Habitability
- Can My (Troll) Landlord Give A 24-Hour Notice That Lasts All Week?
- My Living Room Is Covered In Lead Paint Dust
- My Building Has Turned Into A Den Of Crime
- Do I Have To Hang A “Do Not Flush Tampons” Sign In My Bathroom?
- Does My Landlord Need To Reimburse Me When I Can’t Use The Garage?
- How Do I Get My Landlord To Fix The Elevator?
- Does My Landlord Need To Clean My Chimney?
- Should I Rent An Apartment That’s In Bad Shape?
- Is My Landlord Required To Replace My 25-Year-Old Carpet?
- Can I Replace My Sink Without My Landlord’s Permission?
- A Neighboring Restaurant’s Rats Are Attacking My Apartment
- Our Landlord’s Sawing Is Making Life Miserable
- My Landlord’s Trying To Punish Me For Complaining About Lead Paint
- My Sink Stinks
- Toilet Traumas
- I Stopped Paying My Rent Because Of Maintenance Issues, Now I’m Getting Evicted
- How Do I Get My Landlord To Pay For Property Damage They Caused?
- Pigeon Poop Problems
- Roach Recourse?
- Are Broken Elevators Against The Law?
- Ant Infestation
- How Can I Get My Landlord To Consistently Heat My Apartment?
- How Do I Get Affordable Heat?
- Wet, Cold, And Moldy
- Time To Get Medieval?
- Every Tenant Has One–An Implied Warranty of Habitability
- A Cave By Any Other Name
- Category: Illegal Unit
- Category: Pets & Service Animals
- Category: Roommates
- Can Move I Out and Sublet to New Roommates?
- How Can I Get My Roommate to Leave?
- Adding Roommates to Your Lease is Much Easier These Days
- My Landlord Wants Me To Add My Boyfriend To My Lease. Do I Have To?
- Did Gavin Newsom Make It Harder For My Boyfriend To Move In With Me?
- We’re Basically Paying Our Master Tenant’s Rent. That’s Wrong, Right?
- Can My Landlord Refuse To Add My Domestic Partner To My Lease?
- Oral Lease, May I Sublet A Room Using airbnb In My Apartment?
- Living In A Chain Reaction Of Broken Promises
- My Landlord Said I Could Add Roommates, Then Changed His Mind
- My (Ex) Girlfriend’s Moving Out, Will My Rent Be Going Up?
- My Landlord’s Threatening To Evict Me Because My Boyfriend Moved In To Take Care of Me
- My Crazy Roommate, How Can I Get Her Out?
- My Absentee Master Tenant Was Scamming Me And My Landlord
- Am I Still The Master Tenant If I Moved Out Of My Apartment For Six Years?
- Can I Be Evicted For Subletting Without Permission?
- Can I Put My Apartment On Airbnb Without Informing My Landlord?
- I Think My Landlord Is Crazy, Do I Need To Move Out?
- Why Can’t My Wife Sign Our Rent Check?
- Can Our Landlord Kick Us Out When Our Roommate Moves?
- I Think My Master Tenant Is Scamming Me
- My Landlord Won’t Let My Boyfriend Move In
- Is My New Husband Going To Get Me Evicted?
- I Need To Swap Girlfriends (On My Lease)
- Adding A Roommate, Losing A Garage
- My Landlord Wants To Jack Up My Rent Because I’m Getting A New Roommate
- How Do I Dump A Deadbeat Roommate?
- Read Your Lease!
- What Rules Govern Master Tenants?
- Bad Master Tenant
- Category: Security Deposits
- Can My Landlord Make Me Pay To Replace The Carpet?
- Grand Theft Security Deposit Again?
- “What Lie Can We Get Away With This Month?”
- Can My Landlord Keep My Deposit Because He Wants To Replace The Range Hood?
- Do I Have To Give My Landlord My Pot Rack?
- Can My Landlord Hang On To My Deposit For Utility Bills?
- Are There Penalties For A Late Security Deposit Interest Payment?
- How Do I Figure Out The Interest My Landlord Owes Me For My Deposit?
- This Is Why You Take Photographs At Move In
- My Former Landlord Won’t Return My Security Deposit Or Call Me Back
- How Do I Get My Deposit Back If My Building’s In Foreclosure?
- Surprise! You’re Not Getting Your Deposit Back!
- My Landlord Filed For Bankruptcy, Is My Deposit Gone Forever?
- Losing Your Security Deposit For Subletting?
- Does My Landlord Owe Me Interest For My Security Deposit?
- My Landlord Says He’s Bankrupt, So How Do I Get My Deposit Back?
- Sue For Security Deposit Or SOL?
- Grand Theft Security Deposit Redux
- Grand Theft Security Deposit
- Category: Tenant Buyouts
- Tenant Buyout Updates
- My 24-Unit Building Is For Sale, Should I be Worried?
- Should I Propose A Buyout to My Landlord?
- Should I Take A $40,000 Buyout Offer?
- Are The Buyout Terms My Landlord’s Offering Acceptable?
- Tenant Buyouts: The Agreement
- Tenant Buyouts: Strategy for Success
- Tenant Buyouts: Your Absolute Bottom Line
- Buyouts
- Category: Tenant Law
- Should I Sign a New Lease To Guarantee Services?
- Is The Rule Of Seven Really A Thing?
- Can My Landlord Make Me Remove My Satellite Dish?
- Surveillance Camera Pointed at My Door, What Can I Do?
- Can Tenants Get in Trouble for Breaking a Lease?
- How Can I Fight an OMI Eviction?
- Tenant Troubles Is Back!
- Tenants, Don’t Hire a Landlord Lawyer!
- SF Tenants: Jack Tarred and Feathered
- Why On Earth Would I Have To Pay My Building A $200 Move-Out Fee?
- Can My New Landlord “Bank” My Rent Increases?
- Legal My Landlord To Change The Terms Of My Lease After 12 Years?
- Why Is My Landlord Demanding A $150 Late Fee?
- Can My New Landlord Take Away My Storage Space?
- If I Need To Break My Lease, Am I Responsible For Finding A New Tenant?
- 3 Tenant Troubles–Roommate Rousting, Co-Tenant Challenges, Condo Craziness
- Do I Really Get A Life Time Lease If My Apartment Becomes A Condo?
- How Can I Avoid Getting Screwed By Landlords Application Fee Scams?
- A Just Cause Eviction Does Not Mean “Just ‘Cause Your Landlord Said So”
- My Landlord Is Selling The House I Live In, Do I Have To Move Out?
- Why Won’t My Landlords Take A Rent Check From My Partner?
- My Neighborhood’s Too Dangerous, Can I Break My Lease?
- Do I Have to Use The Crappy Furniture That Came With My Apartment?
- Does My Unusual Lease Mean My Landlord Can Hang Out In My Apartment?
- Why Won’t My Landlord Discuss My New Lease With Me?
- How Do I Get My Former Landlord’s Dead Hand Off Me?
- Can Someone Be A Subtenant If They Aren’t Paying Rent?
- My Erratic Landlord Is Asking For An Illegal Rent Increase
- Can I Have My Living Situation “Both Ways”?
- Can I Refuse To Sign A Lease?
- My Landlord Died, Am I About To Lose My Apartment?
- How Much Do I Have To Help The Realtor Who Wants To Evict Me?
- When Can My Landlord Ask For My Annual Rent Increase?
- Will The Board Of Supes’ Soft-Story Retrofit Requirement End Up Costing Me A Bundle?
- I Think We Have A Squatter In Our Garage
- I Think I Have An Illegal Clause In My Lease
- Do I Risk Losing My Apartment If I Take An Out Of Town Temporary Job?
- My Boyfriend Moved Out, And My Rent Went Up
- Does My Landlord Have To Fix My Broken Dishwasher?
- If Our Roommate Moves Out, Can Our Landlord Jack Up Our Rent?
- Can My Landlord Evict Me For Getting Pregnant?
- My Landlord’s Selling My Building, And Now I Have To Fill Out A Bunch Of Forms?
- Can My Landlord “Bank” My Annual Rent Increases?
- A Rent Increase Question Puts The “Lord” In Landlord
- Is My Rent Being Raised In Retaliation For My Repair Complaints (And Is That Legal?)
- Can My Landlord Raise My Rent By $300/Month?
- My Landlord Went Through My Closet
- Can I Break My Lease Due To My Insane Landlord And High Cats?
- Does A Mistake In My Lease Give Me Free Rent?
- There’s A Mouse In My (Boarding) House
- My Landlord Said I Didn’t Have To Pay Rent, But Now She Wants It
- My Building’s Being Sold, Do I Have To Get Out?
- Why Is My New Management Company Asking Me So Many Questions?
- Can My Landlord Evict Me For Smoking Marijuana?
- My Landlord Isn’t Depositing My Rent Checks, Should I Worry?
- My Landlord’s Jacking My Rent Way Up After I Complained About Maintenance
- How Can I Buy Property In SF And Not Burn In Hell?
- How Do I Get Reimbursed For Utility Overages That Aren’t My Fault?
- If I’m Rich, Am I Still Protected By Rent Control?
- Can I Get Evicted For Adding A Lock To My Closet?
- Time To Hire A Private Eye To Go After Your Landlord
- My Landlord Wants Me To Move Out So He Can Sell My Apartment
- Foreclosure: Banks Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Obey the Law
- Does My Landlord Get To Ask About My Pot Plants?
- Your Landlord Is Lying To You, Why Are You Lying FOR Him?
- Management Company Only Pretends We Have A Resident Manager
- A Lease With An “Introductory Rate”?
- Can My Landlord Search My Apartment For Pot?
- Why An Absentee Master Tenant Is A Bad Idea
- My Building Manager Says I’m Denying Access To My Apt., But I’m Not!
- Locked Out Of The Laundry Room
- What Constitutes a “Decrease In Services”?
- Is My Building’s High Water Bill My Problem?
- My Building’s For Sale, Should I Worry?
- Landlord Crybabies Forced To Ellis Because Landlording Became So Unpleasant
- Is My Landlord Trying To Evict Me For Smoking?
- Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?
- Smoky The Guest
- Hey, Landlord, Show Me Your Credit Report
- Sorry, CitiApartments, “Routine Inspections” Are Illegal
- Rents Are Dropping, Can I Renegotiate?
- Happy New Year, For Tenants Nothing’s Changed!
- Tenants, Thugs and CDOs
- They Don’t Call ‘Em Landlords for Nothing
- Category: Tenant Troubles Classics
- Poodle In The Microwave: Three Common Tenant Misconceptions
- Is It Too Late For Me To Sue To Get My Security Deposit Back?
- Stop Wishin’ And Hopin’, Get Back Your Security Deposit
- Why Do You Assume All Landlords Are Rich?
- Tenant in San Francisco: What’s Wrong with Working in a Bookstore?
- The Eviction Shuffle: Not Like Perry Mason
- Troll in the Basement
- Even Dracula Had to Have an Invite Before He Could Enter
- Category: uncategorized
- Category: Unlawful Detainer
Are you absolutely sure you want to take a buyout?
If your landlord offers you a buyout for your rent-controlled tenancy, he probably doesn't really want to take the building out of the rental market or move in, but you don't know that for sure.
What is certain is that the money he's offering is a tiny percentage of his potential profit and small compensation for re-entering the current rental market.
Do the math before you take the leap.