Is Toxic Mold Lurking in Your Rental Property? Here’s What You Need to Know!
Is Toxic Mold Lurking in Your Rental Property? Here’s What You Need to Know! As a tenant, it is important to keep your living space healthy and safe. One potential danger that you should be aware of is toxic mold. Mold can grow in damp areas and cause health problems such as allergies, asthma, and […]
What Is An Illegal Eviction? Understanding Illegal Evictions in California
What Is An Illegal Eviction? Understanding Illegal Evictions in California As California’s largest tenant’s rights law firm, Tenant Law Group has represented countless tenants who suffered wrongful evictions by landlords using a wide range of illegal tactics. That’s why we only represent renters, and why we never represent landlords. California law protects tenants from […]
What Can I Get Evicted For?
What Can I Get Evicted For? If you’re a tenant in California, you may have questions regarding what you can legally get evicted for. Read on to learn the reasons you may be legally evicted. Reasons You May Be Evicted in California In the state of California, your landlord is legally allowed to evict you […]
Will I Be Evicted If My Apartment Building Is Sold?
Will I Be Evicted If My Apartment Building Is Sold? In San Francisco, Oakland, or any other jurisdiction, the sale of a building is not just cause to evict tenants. This is because these buildings are sold subject to the rent-controlled tenancies. However, there may be a risk of other no-fault evictions, such as Landlord-Move-In […]
How Will San Francisco’s Tenant Right to Counsel Legislation Work in Practice?
How Will San Francisco’s Tenant Right to Counsel Legislation Work in Practice? February 20, 2019 By Tenant Law Group, PC When Proposition F was passed in June of 2018, San Francisco became the first city in California and the second in the United States (after New York) to make legal counsel a right for […]
Three Circumstances Where Small Claims Court May Be a Tenant’s Best Option
Circumstances Where Small Claims Court is a Tenant’s Best Option While it’s not unusual for a dispute to arise between a landlord and tenant, most disagreements can be resolved by an email, phone call, or in person conversation. In certain extreme cases of egregious landlord conduct, however, a tenant’s only hope for a resolution […]
Why All California Tenants Should Vote Yes on Prop 10
Why All California Tenants Should Vote Yes on Prop 10 Fifteen cities across California have some form of rent control. But in each of these cities, rent control is limited in scope. In Los Angeles, the program is confined to apartment buildings constructed prior to October 1978. Similarly, rent control in San Francisco is limited […]
Understanding Loss of Use (Rent Differential) Damages
Understanding Loss of Use (Rent Differential) Damages In the landlord-tenant context, the term “loss of use” refers to one of the most important measures of money damages available to a tenant wrongfully evicted from a rental unit–particularly in a city with rent control (e.g., San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, San Jose, Mountain View, Richmond, East Palo […]
Understanding the Implied Covenant of Quiet Enjoyment
Understanding the Implied Covenant of Quiet Enjoyment Under California law, every residential lease contains two implied promises (or “covenants”) that apply regardless of whether they explicitly appear in a rental agreement. One is the warranty of habitability, which provides that rented properties must meet certain minimum standards of liveability, as set forth in California […]