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Inside this issue: Energy Audit; Bay Area Rents Higher; Housing Bias Concern; Illegal Re-Rentals; California's Pension Liability; We're in the Wrong Business; Meeting and Workshop Information; and more... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Fraud in High Places; Rent Control Beefs Where Tenants Gane Landlord; Appliances Go Missing; The Abandoned Rental Unit; Makes You Go Hmmmmm; Meeting and Workshop Information; LA Story: The Mayor & Mandatory Retrofitting; Berkeley Rent Board and the Oil Train; and more... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Democracy in Berkeley; Anti Speculation Tax; Oakland Outpaces San Francisco; Oakland Tenant Protections; A Trifecta from BPOA Member; Winter Dinner Invitation; and more... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: No to No Pets; Section 8 Update; Rent Control in Marin?; A Letter on the Downtown Measure R; SF Fights the Ellis; A Knife to the Heart; Follow-Up on the SF Ellis Pacific Legal Foundation; and more... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: A Cautionary Tale; To Refi or Not Refi; EBMUD Tips; Alameda; Audit Finds Flaws; SF Judge Denies Restraining Order; Remedies to Rental Shortage; SF Housing Crisis; Add Units with Seismic Work; Affordable Units Protected; and more... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Tenant Scams; Decision on Earthquake Liability; Airbnb Squatter; Poor Doors in West Hollywood; PFL Takes Landlord Case; SF Landlords Sue Over Relocation Fees; New Grand Jury Investigation; and more... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Section 8 Rents; Median Price Hits 7-Figure High in SF; Airline-Style Pricing Hits NYC; Airbnb Scandal; Santa Monica Ballot Measures; Tenants' Right to Counsel; Bedbug Sniffing Dogs; 84 Square Feet; and more... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Rents Rise, Encouraging Fraud; End to Prop 13 Tax Loophole; SF Section 8 Evictions; Limits to Ellis Act; AB 1513; Short Term Rentals; Piedmont Housing Element; and more... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Los Angeles Evictions; Security Deposit Rules; Mensa Humor II & Discounts; Berkeley Redistricting; Student Move-Out Official Flyer; Student Move-Out Press Release; Top Paid Berkeley Jobs; Workshop Information; and more... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Michael St. John; SF Illegal Units; Smoking; One Third Rule Not Feasible; Condo Conversion Update; Oakland Decides on Landlord Improvements; Sugar Tax for Berkeley; Workshop Information; Squatting; and more... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Michael St. John; How to Not Get Sued; Filth and Fear; Anti-Speculation Program; Rent Control Returns to Capital; Rent Control Culver City; Workshop Information; Confronting the Speculators; The Dos and Don'ts of Tenant Selection; and more... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Michael St. John; Downtown Berkeley Housing Boom; Irish Rent Control; Is Rent Control Hurting SF Middle Class?; City of Richmond & Local Clean Energy; Marty and Casey; Taking SF Evictions to Sacramento; Hoarding; and more... Continue Reading
