Tenant Troubles
Proposition 10 is About Local Control, Nothing Else
Proposition 10 will repeal the Costa Hawkins Rental Housing Act, allowing local governments to implement rent control if they so choose.
Should I Sign a New Lease To Guarantee Services?
You don’t need to sign a new lease just to guarantee that the landlords provide services that they’re required to provide anyway.
Can My Landlord Make Me Pay To Replace The Carpet?
Landlords become vengeful Aladdins when they suspect that tenants have diminished the magic of the wall-to-wall carpet.
Can Move I Out and Sublet to New Roommates?
It’s a bad idea to move out and sublet to new roommates. your decision weakens rent control for the rest of us.
How Can I Get My Roommate to Leave?
How can I get my roommate to leave? Pays rent late, has friends over until 3 am, loud, skips out on doing dishes. How can I get my roommate to leave?
Can My Landlord Refuse To Allow Me An Emotional Support Animal?
If your disability is psychiatric your are absolutely entitled to request a reasonable accommodation to add an emotional support animal.
Is The Rule Of Seven Really A Thing?
A Rule of Seven, if it existed, would be a stupid, vindictive and financially unsound practice that could only be justified by ignorant superstition, evidence that some landlords have SPOOKS in their brains.
Can My Landlord Make Me Remove My Satellite Dish?
FCC Order 98-273 will prohibit the landlord from requiring you to remove the satellite dish, but only if you have exclusive use of the deck. If you do not have exclusive use, you should probably move the satellite dish to an area in your apartment that you do control.
Poodle In The Microwave: Three Common Tenant Misconceptions
Like the poodle in the microwave, tenants have urban legends. If you are a tenant, don’t get sucked in by common tenant misconceptions.
They Don't Call 'Em Landlords For Nothing
How many times have you heard your landlord say, “This is my property and I can do anything I want?” Before you tell him to stick his "anything" where the sun don’t shine, understand that your landlord is simply a romantic. He should be wearing a cod piece and tights.
Find out how to tell your landlord to stick it.