Attorney Dennis Block-Zoom Landlord-Tenant Talk Radio

1, Obtaining immediate answsers to your legal questions

2. Motion for Summary Judgment

3. Lease term is expiring

4. Existing tenant moving into a different unit on the premises

5. Owners desires to move into a unit occupied by a Section 8 tenant

6. Vacancy decontrol

7. Nuisance tenants

8. Tenant failing to maintain the unit

9. Relunctant Witnesses

10. Failure to renew a lease

11. Violation of house rules

12. Raising rent above market level

13. Calilfornia balony and staircase inspection law

14. Illegal Unit

15. Evicting for rent owed during the Covid period.

Topics Discussed 1. SB 567-Substantial remodel and Owner/Family move-in

2. Late Charges

3. Terminating a fixed term lease

4. Required names in a 3 day notice to pay rent

5. Unauthorized subtenants

6. Who is responsible when an injury occurs on your property

7. Evict a tenant when the property is to be sold

8. Contested vs uncontested evictions

9. Settlements in unlawful detainer actions

10. Special language must be contained in the lease for owner move-in

11. Tenant deposits rent in landlord's bank account after the 3 day expires

12. Applying rent payments to late charges

13. Bedbugs- who is responsible

14. Intentional damage to property

15. Establishing the initial condition of the premises

16. Tenant vacates before the expiration of the notice to vacate

17. Tenant refusing to sign a rental agreement

18. Arbitration clause in a lease agreement

Topics Discussed:

1. Emotional Support Animals
2. Attorney fee provision in a lease agreement
3. Tenant maliciously wasting water
4. A 3-day rent notice is limited to 1 years rent
5. Different rent notice required for property that has a federally backed loan
6. 3-Day Notice must contain special language
7. Landlord refusing to make repairs
8. Voluntary vacate agreement
9. Childrent remaining in unit after the parents vacate
10. Abandoned personal property
11. Guarantors
12. Tenant hosting parties
13. Requirements in preparing a 3-day notice to pay rent or quit
14. Mold in unit
15. Owners desires to occupy a tenant occupied unit
16. Airbnb
17. Single-family residence has no rent limitations
18. Ecomonic Deplacement relocation
19. How to deduct items on a security deposit form
20. Substantial renovation of a unit

Topics Discussed:

1. New security deposit law
2. Unauthorized dog
3. Turning off utilities with a tenant in possession
4. Accessing a tenant's unit
5. Raising rent on a single-family residence
6. How to collect rent which became owed during the Covid period
7. Owner intends to occupy or renovate a unit
8. Increasing rent for a capital improvement
9. Removing a garage to construct an ADU
10. Requiring renters insurance
11. Tenant refuses to pay the rental increase
12. 3-day notice must exceed the threshold (Fair Market Value)
13. Abandoned personal property
14. Tenant is a hoarder
15. Accessing a unit to sell the property
16. Tenant is harrassing an owner.

Topics Discusse

1. Provision in a lease regarding the owners right to put in a family member
2. Balcony and staircase required inspection. (New Law)
3. Reporting bad tenants to credit agencies
4. Requirements for a 3 day notice to pay rent or quit.
5. Tenant pays rent after the 3 day notice expires by Zelle
6. Jurisdictional limit in small claims court
7. Addendum to rental agreement
8. Unauthorized tenant
9. Responsibility of the tenant to prevent mold
10. Protection to prevent trespass of vacant units
11. Single-Family residence requires good cause to evict
12. Failing to cleanup for a tenant's dog
13. Condo's not subject to rent limitations
14. Tenant's contributes to water damage
15. Selling a tenant occupied house.
16. Just cause not required for tenancies less then 6 months (JCO)
17. Just For Renters initiative (VOTE NO)
18. Tenant responsible to prepare unit for pest control company
19. Selecting a management company
20. Caretaker remaining in unit after tenant dies.
21. Building an accessory dwelling unit on tenant occupied property

Topics Discussed:

1. The best residential lease
2. Protecting vacant units
3. Just Cause Ordinance in Los Angles
4. Changing a single-family residence to a duplex
5. Raising the security deposit for an existing tenant
6. Section 8 tenant not residing in the unit
7. Adding a late fee to an existing tenancy
8. Putting an eviction on a tenant's credit
9. Abandoned person property
10. Tenants fails to switch utilities to their names
11. Tenant contiually pays rent late
12. Evicting for substantial renovation
13. Avoiding Section 8 tenants
14. Raising rent on a single-family residence
15. Deducting late fees from a security deposit

Topics Discussed:

1. Emotional Support Animals
2. Reporting a tenant to a credit agency
3. Removing a tenant for owner occupancy
4. Transferring an eviction to the new owner
5. Moving a Section 8 tenant to a different unit
6. Suing in small claims court for COVID rent
7. Los Angeles required notices to tenants
8. Forcing an existing tenant to sign a lease
9. Designating where rental payments are to be paid
10. Deducting for cleaning in a security deposit itemization
11. Tenant is in jail
12. Balcony inspections
13. Charging tenants for utilties
14. Relocation requirements for the City of Los Angeles
15. Including an additional area in the lease agreement
16. Trespassers taking over property
17. Basta representing tenants
18. Sealing eviction record.
19. Requiring a tenant to move as property is to be sold
20. Illegally converted garage
21. Raising rent on a single family residence
22. Family member move-in Ventura County
23. New laws regarding security deposits
24. Eviction for pets.

Topics Discussed

1. Civil litigation and phone check as part of the application process
2. Statement that property is not subject to Statewide Rent Control
3. Reasons to deny an applicant other than credit score
4. Unsightly items on balcony
5. Trespassers take possession of house
6. Service and emotional support animals
7. Jucuzzi not working, tenant deducting rent
8. Nuisance evictions
9. Los Angeles Sheriff delays
10. Threshold requirement for a notice to pay rent
11. Serving notice to the police regarding trespassers
12. Month to Month versus a fixed term lease
13. Renovation Eviction
14. Tenant responsible for the repair of applicances
15. House title in the name of corporation
16. Tenancy at will

Topics Discussed:

1. Trade Show - October 20, 2024 at Los Angeles Convention Center
2. Trespassers
3. Holding deposits forms
4. Mold issues
5. Tenants delaying eviction actions
6. Shared utility meter
7. Increasing a security deposit
8. Access notices
9. Eviction Rent Assistance Program
10. Raising rent on a single-family residence
11. Deducting for cleaning from a security deposit
12. Moving into your rental unit
13. Renting rooms in a house
14. Tenant accusations
15. SB 602 Trespass
16. Mold remediation requires quick action
17. Nuisance behavior
18. Unauthorized occupants remaining in possession
19. Providing receipts for your labor for a security deposit.

Topics Discussed

1. Serving a 3 day notice
2. Counting Days
3. Terminating a tenancy for an owner's occupancy
4. Procedural requirements in an eviction action
5. Substituting Tenants
6. Partial rent payments in regard to the threshold
7. Voluntary vacate agreements
8. Manager agreements
9. Demanding rent is not harassment
10. Alterations to the premises
11. Raising rent on a single family residence
12. Stipulation judgments
13. Collection on a judgment
14. Tenant preventing access
15. 1099c -forgiving rental debt
16. Key deposit
17. Collecting on commercial rent
18. Unsealing an eviction record
19. Rent increases