TENANT TROUBLES
Do I Really Get A Life Time Lease If My Apartment Becomes A Condo?
The new condo conversion law provides that that any tenant (not just elderly, catastrophically ill or disabled tenants) must be offered a life time lease.
My Landlord Wants Me To Add My Boyfriend To My Lease. Do I Have To?
Tell your landlord that it’s beneficial to her to allow you to add your boyfriend as a subtenant. If you move out she can increase the rent to market rate.
How Can I Avoid Getting Screwed By Landlords Pulling Application Fee Scams?
California Civil Code §1950.6 governs the collection of application fees, a namby-pamby, bullshit law does not contain a remedy for its violation.
Did Gavin Newsom Make It Harder For My Boyfriend To Move In With Me?
Mayor Gavin Newsom, the rapacious, oily narcissist and shill for the real estate industry vetoed legislation that would have allowed you to add your boyfriend to help pay rent.
A Just Cause Eviction Does Not Mean “Just ‘Cause Your Landlord Said So”
San Francisco tenants who love their apartments and begin to believe “there’s no place like home” are those most in danger.
Screwed by Costa Hawkins
Another tenant screwed by Costa Hawkins–a bi-partisan law enacted in 1995 to screw tenants by the band of pandering griftocrats we call our state legislators.
Can My (Troll) Landlord Give A 24-Hour Notice For Entry That Lasts All Week?
Landlord trolls with a Caligula complex are particularly dangerous because many of them are richer than god and they have a divinity delusion to boot.
Is My Landlord Lying To Tenants And Claiming They Don’t Have Rent Control?
Your relationship with your landlord will change if you complain. The next time you see him he will have donned his crown, his tights and his cod piece.
We’re Basically Paying Our Master Tenant’s Rent. That’s Wrong, Right?
This is what you get when you don’t truly understand that rent is simply an outrageous tax you pay to a lord to live on his land–a tax, nothing more, that subsidizes a lazy, unproductive aristocracy.
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.