Posts by category

• 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
  • My Landlord Is Selling My Building, How Pessimistic Should I Be?
  • Does My Illegal In-Law Make My Single Family House Into A Rent-Controlled Building?
  • Can I Be Evicted Just Because My Apartment’s An Illegal Unit?
• Category: Pets & Service Animals
  • Can My Landlord Refuse To Allow Me An Emotional Support Animal?
  • How Do I Get My Landlord To Allow Me To Get A Dog?
  • How Do I Ask For Permission To Get A Dog?
  • Prohibited Pets Could Put You In The Doghouse
• 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
  • 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
  • Surveillance Camera Pointed at My Door, What Can I Do?
  • 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?
  • 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 News
  • Rent Control Explained: History Of LA’s Tenant Protections
  • Largest US Corporate Landlords Reap Huge Profits
  • How Investors Accelerate the Affordable Housing Crisis
  • The Revolution Against Shady Landlords Has Begun
  • Housing for ‘families’ or corporate rentals?
  • Landlords can ask applicants for criminal history
  • UCLA’s secretive neoliberal housing conference
  • Ellis Evictions Continue: How One Tenant Fought Back
• 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
  • Thanks for contacting us
• Category: Unlawful Detainer
  • My Landlord Forged Documents To Get Me Evicted
  • The Eviction Shuffle: RSVP
  • The Eviction Shuffle: Should I Dance?
  • The Eviction Shuffle: Notice