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Inside this issue: Powers and Duties BRSB; Suzi Hing Award; Rent Control as an Addiction; Yet Another Problem Solved; Panoramic Micro Apartments; Hunters View Tenants Shocked; After 20 Years SF's Prop; First Highrise in 40 Years; Tarses Tips; Rent Relief Not on Agenda; St. Helena Sued Over... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: M.St.J.. Regulation 1282-Sham Fair Treatment; Subsidies for SF's Super Rich; Santa Monican's For Renters Rights; The Dangers of Too Much Stuff; New California Laws for 2013, New Jersey's Rent Control Laws Fading; SF Supervisor Needs Rent Control; Caretaker First for... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: The Follies of Rent Control; Rent Control Insights with Michael St. John; Pick a Party & Quote of the Month; California Law Re: Campaign Signs; Wikipedia Usually Gets it Right; Funds for Lead Paint Removal; Portugal Scraps Rent Control; Berkeley Housing Authority; and more... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Ending Rent Control; Typical Rent Ranges; Security Deposit Alert; Rent Control Insights with Michael St. John; 10 Worst Mistakes a Landlord Can Make; New Law Bars Online Payment Requirement; Reckonings; A Rent Affair; Q&A; Depending on Dependency; Anti-SLAPP Protects Landlords... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Tenant Fraud and the Rent Board; Santa Monica Considers Smoking Ban; Rights of Pet Owning Tenants; New Recycling Law; Landlord Sentenced to Prison for Lead Paint; Insurance Against Loss of Rents; Workshop Information & Quote of the Month; and more... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Softstory Retrofit Mandatory; When Rent Control Provides a Getaway; Alameda Grand Jury Report; Bay Area Apartment Rents Soar; Meeting & Workshop Information; Quote of the Month; Talking to Hoarders; and more... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: San Francisco Spillover; Deadbeat Database & Cal Move-Out; Don't Just Do Something, Stand There; Abuse of Rent Control; Quote of the Month; Fiscal Accountability Initiative; Unfunded Liabilities; Habitat for Humanity ReStore; and more... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: George Will on Rent Control; Bay Area Renters Squeezed in Tight Market; Supreme Court Declines to Hear Rent Control; The Farce Continues; Habitability and Related Issues; Zoning Madness; Rent; and more... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Refinancing Made Easy-er; Lowest Income Renters Left Behind; Who's Largess?; Pay Your Own Rent, A Good Idea; Econ 101; Rebate Opportunities; Sighted in Berkeley; A Berkeley Story; and more... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: How Rent Control Subsidizes; New American Dream & Dirksen Updated; A Rose By Any Other Name & Quote; Attorney Fees Provisions; Member Workshop Information; London Living Rent System; Q&A; Babbling Brooks & Dumpster Purchase; and more... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Supreme Court Might Upset Rent Control; Barney Did It!; Solar Hot Water & Quote of the Month; Berkeley City Manager Pension; NY Rent Control Hits Supreme Court (2); Top Ten Tax Deductions for Landlords; Dissed to Distraction; and more... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Epidemic of Scams; Can We Retrofit, Please?; Berkeley Fire Blame; Miami Condo King wants Berkeley Housing; Elizabeth Warren/Berkeley Business; Landlord Appeal to Supreme Court/Q&A; Tenants Defy Landlord/WeHo Smokers; Assistance for Victims of Fire; and more... Continue Reading
