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The Content Library is your go-to feed for everything BPOA publishes—from blog articles and webinar playbacks to announcements and member newsletters. If we’ve written, posted, or recorded it, you’ll find it here—organized by date, not topic. 


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October 2010 Issue
October 2010 Issue

Inside this issue: No on H & I; Argument Against Measure T; A Clever Scheme; Indoor Marijuana; Pro-Tenant Rent Board May Be Unseated; Is it Time to Improve SF Rent Control?; TAX ALERT; Another State, A Different Approach; The Money of Fools; Stay Alert; and more... Continue Reading

Postedby BPOA Master
Date posted10/1/2010


September 2010 Issue
September 2010 Issue

Inside this issue: Bond on November Ballot; Why There are Jobs in America; Rent Board Seats Up for Grabs; The BUSD Needs More Money; Attorney Tips; Mold Sampling & Q&A; New Recycling Carts; EPA Certification Training; Penalties –Reasonable and Proportional; and more... Continue Reading

Postedby BPOA Master
Date posted09/1/2010


August 2010 Issue
August 2010 Issue

Inside this issue: Split Roll Tax; Dirty Words; This and That; Unbelievable; Berkeley School Board and Quotes; Simply Put; and more... Continue Reading

Postedby BPOA Master
Date posted08/1/2010


June 2010 Issue
June 2010 Issue

Inside this issue: Rent Board Candidates for November; Don't Trash Berkeley; Measure C; A Welfare State of Mind; Landlords Sue to Increase Rent; Can Rent Control Bring Down a Country?; United Breaks Guitars; L.A. Should Abandon Rent Control; News from Sacramento; and more... Continue Reading

Postedby BPOA Master
Date posted06/1/2010


May 2010 Issue
May 2010 Issue

Inside this issue: Make This Guy Governor; Calpers Eyes Ban on Rent Control Conversions; Pool Bond Measure; Difference Between Liberalism, Progressiveism; Should Government Impose Retrofit?; Court Rules Property Owners on Section 8; California Tax Cliamet; Tenant Activists Exacerbate Housing Crisis Continue Reading

Postedby BPOA Master
Date posted05/1/2010


April 2010 Issue
April 2010 Issue

Inside this issue: Rent Board Openings & New EPA Rule; How a Court Decision Can Affect You; How Much Does Rent Control Cost?; A Tale of Three Cities and Four Pools; Tarses Tips; Who Benefits & Your Rent Board at Work; New Tax, and more... Continue Reading

Postedby BPOA Master
Date posted04/1/2010


March 2010 Issue
March 2010 Issue

Inside this issue: Rent Control Subject to Class Action Suit; Attorneys Fees Provisions; Mold Advice; Rent Outta Shape; Tarses Tips; Real State, Smoke Detectors, and Competition; Flash News; WFC; and more... Continue Reading

Postedby BPOA Master
Date posted03/1/2010


February 2010 Issue
February 2010 Issue

Inside this issue: Government Loves Landowners; Becoming a Pet-Friendly Landlord; Maintenance; Could Be Worse; Berkeley City Council Approves Soft Story; Worst Tenant; Correction; Fire Prevention; and more... Continue Reading

Postedby BPOA Master
Date posted02/1/2010


January 2010 Issue
January 2010 Issue

Inside this issue: Management Practice in the Downturn; Proposed 2010 State Legislation; Tarses Tips; Interpretation of "last original tenant"; Peggy Schioler Awards for 2009; Q&A and Lead-Free Plumbing; New Lead Paint Renovation Rules; Frequently Asked Questions; Replacement Tenant Form; and more. Continue Reading

Postedby BPOA Master
Date posted01/1/2010


December 2009 Issue
December 2009 Issue

Inside this issue: Affordable Housing: Recent Legal Developments; Pets; A Simple Yes or No May be Way Too Simple; Security Deposit Interest Rates; AGA; Moving Out; Big Business in Berkeley?; Guide to Screening; and more... Continue Reading

Postedby BPOA Master
Date posted12/1/2009


November 2009 Issue
November 2009 Issue

Inside this issue: Government Fees that Affect Real Estate; Dropping Rents; Tarses Tips; Mobile Home Rent Control; Ten Biggest Property Tax Payers; They BE Pigs; We Be Horses; Habitability and Repairs; Stimulus Funding Comes Home to Berkeley; Businesses; and more... Continue Reading

Postedby BPOA Master
Date posted11/1/2009


October 2009 Issue
October 2009 Issue

Inside this issue: A Rent Affair; Every Cloud May Have a Silver Lining; Parallel Universes; Berkeley's Rental Housing Safety Program; Three Day Notices Done Right; HUD Money Goes to ACORN; The Five Year Plan; Frank's Fingerprints; and more... Continue Reading

Postedby BPOA Master
Date posted10/1/2009