bpoa February newsblast
Presidents Message
 

The newly-elected but largely unchanged Board of Directors of the Berkeley Property Owners Association met last week and elected a new slate of officers. Your new President is Sid Lakireddy who will be backed by Don Holms as Vice-President, Kathy Snowden as Secretary and Sara Schoeneman as Treasurer. The rest of the Board would be Will Flynn. Jim Smith, Claude Zamanian, Jon Vicars and yours truly.

 

I am pleased to turn over the gavel to Sid and am also pleased we now have a president about the same age as the BPOA itself. If this organization is to survive, it will need an infusion of youth. It is starting to look like an appropriate meeting topic for our monthly meeting could be Medicare for Landlords. Given its assets, and despite its fl aws, the BPOA deserves the support of Berkeley property owners. It is the only dedicated representation you have in the climate of Berkeley progressive politics in which owning property and housing strangers is somehow equated with evildoing. You need BPOA and BPOA needs you. If each of you could recruit just one additional member, we could double our membership. Please take a minute and think who you might know who owns Berkeley rental property and give them a call. A personal contact from someone you know is far more effective than all the mailers we can muster.

 

I will continue as editor of this newsletter for now. I guess I always wanted to be a columnist and the BPOA newsletter has given me a chance to vent. I hope I have made some points over the last two years. If you have any comments on the editorials or the newsletter in general, please e-mail me at bpoa@bpoa.org and Nancy will forward them to me. I have not gotten a lot of feedback and sometimes wonder if I am just beating a dead horse. As much as I do enjoy doing the monthly editorial and helping Nancy put the newsletter together (she really does most of the work), I would like to stop sometime in the next year. So, if anyone out there would like the job, please let us know.

 

Congratulations to the new officers and let us look forward to a fruitful new year and decade.

 

Albert Sukoff


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TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATON

The only thing worse than bullies who forcefully take what is rightfully yours are the bureaucratic thugs who claim it is moral for them to take it.Protect your rights to life and property with the same tenacity you would fight a bully. Don't let them use moral guilt to disarm you.

--Eric Khrom
  Brooklyn NY

 

FREE MONEY FROM ASHBY LUMBER?

Now, new and renewing BPOA members will receive 50% off their next purchase of up to $100 in merchandise from Ashby Lumber. That's like getting a check for $50 when you join or renew! The discount applies to nearly everything sold at Ashby Lumber & Hardware. Only power tools, sale items, and special orders are excluded. Coupons are mailed by BPOA to qualifying members. Not a member? Become one now! Join BPOA

 

SOFT STORY

ARE YOU ON THE LIST? INVENTORY LINK HERE

YOU MUST POST THIS NOTICE WITHIN 5 FEET OF ALL ENTRANCES

YOU MUST ALSO SEND THIS NOTICE TO YOUR TENANTS (AND A COPY TO THE CITY)

 

Some Basic Background Information on Economics and Rent Control

The High Cost of Rent Control

Landlord/Tenant Law 101
Beginning in early 2004, the BPOA Monthly published a series of articles about the basics of landlord tenant law, particularly as applied in Berkeley. Over the months we have covered the following subjects:

Rent Board Changes on Security Deposit Interest Rates

2009 AGA Information

thinking about eviction?

 

GOVERNOR AGREES: LANDLORDS ARE NOT IMMIGRATION COPS

Governor Schwarzenegger signed AB 976 into law. The bill prohibits city councils from passing laws that require landlords to inquire about a prospective tenant's immigration status and report that information to local government.

 

Need Mentoring? Contact us! bpoa@bpoa.org

 

Getting Religious?

Read the Ten Commandments (for landlords!)

 

The ranks of property owners are swelling, as evidenced by requests to the office to join our organization.To familiarize newcomers with our local "system," andto facilitate contact with BPOA boardmembers, we have started a mentoring program.

Please call the office for information at (510) 525-3666. or Contact us.

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EVENTS

February 18
Rent Board Meeting

March 06
Members Meeting

April 03
Members Meeting

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The Forms You Need

One of the advantages of being a member of BPOA is having access to a wide array of useful forms, some of which have been created just for our members. For example, The BPOA RENTAL AGREEMENT F09 is specific to Berkeley and includes lead, asbestos and sex offender language. You can view the complete list of available forms here, but only members can download.

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