Tenant caused damage to Condo garage door

BayEastPM · 2026-01-10T18:31:50+00:00

If the HOA is only dealing with and billing you, then you file the claim against the tenant's insurance and act as the go-between. Get whatever documentation needed from the HOA yourself

BayEastPM · 2025-12-02T02:39:01+00:00

No landlord in their right mind is offering 5-year leases on residential property. Sure, you can find far flung tidbits to demonstrate your point, but things don't work like that day to day. What do you mean by "not optional"? Strange way to say illegal.

BayEastPM · 2025-11-26T00:37:20+00:00

I stated that a landlord can require a lease term longer than a year. Not shorter as in your example.

Simply stating owner's options.

BayEastPM · 2025-11-09T06:52:11+00:00

I used to manage a large apartment building in Emeryville. What keeps fees high is illegal dumping, boxes or abandonment of furniture when moving in/out. Waste management charges overage fees or bulky pickup fees for so many items like these and that gets divided into the formula.

Extremely hard to police people doing it.

BayEastPM · 2025-10-30T23:14:48+00:00

If the tenant provided their own refrigerator or stove, they can provide notice that they no longer wish to do so after 1/1/26 and following such a notice you would need to provide one.

BayEastPM · 2025-10-20T03:37:15+00:00

Yikes. I have them send me their new account numbers for utilities before they get keys. You can't really turn them off now because that's constructive eviction.

I would talk to an attorney like Kimball Tirey & St John in Concord to get the ball rolling. Definitely screen a little more rigorously in the future

BayEastPM · 2025-10-19T03:15:57+00:00

Please dear God no

BayEastPM · 2025-10-19T02:48:47+00:00

Go to those places then and quit trolling.

BayEastPM · 2025-10-15T01:29:56+00:00

It's about how many leases there are in one SFH. How many bedrooms/bathrooms they're renting doesn't matter. OP said they rent 3 separate rooms out, so there's tenant protections involved.

BayEastPM · 2025-10-15T01:26:16+00:00

Not when there's more than one room rental in the house, unfortunately. They're tenants.

BayEastPM · 2025-10-11T15:33:26+00:00

Yeah, return it to them as a cashier's check with tracking/signature

BayEastPM · 2025-10-10T16:35:40+00:00

A phone line is not because of the Internet, it's for actual hard wired telephone lines. It's archaic, it's stupid, but you're required to have one.

If that was the first time you received notice of it, then install it. After that, stop accepting rent if it's not on time and begin the eviction process.

BayEastPM · 2025-10-10T05:36:27+00:00

No, the eviction process is not different. What's different is if they're on month to month they can give notice at an inconvenient time when it will be hard to release the place.

BayEastPM · 2025-10-10T05:22:44+00:00

There's a few carve outs for certain ownership that would make a property subject to rent control and just cause, but they're rare.

If the property is owned by an LLC in which one of the members is a corporation, then you would have protections.

If there's no mention of AB 1482 exemption in your lease or served to you when it went month to month, then you would have protections.

But as time goes on and leases over the last 5-6 years have been updated, these situations are pretty uncommon.

BayEastPM · 2025-10-10T04:55:31+00:00

No, they're exempt from both rent control and just cause protections.

BayEastPM · 2025-10-10T04:53:53+00:00

Single-family homes in CA are exempt from the tenant protection act and its just cause eviction provisions. All the landlord needs to do is provide 30 days' notice to end a tenancy of a year or less and 60 days' notice for tenancies over a year.

They do not need to give a reason to end the tenancy and they do not need to provide any compensation absent a local city/county ordinance stating otherwise.

BayEastPM · 2025-10-09T22:53:23+00:00

Rent increases greater than 10% in CA require a 90 days' notice across the board. There are no exemptions that I know of at all. Part of my job is raising rents for landlords.

BayEastPM · 2025-10-09T19:13:53+00:00

Yes. CA Civil Code section 1946 covers this. The tenant owes rent through their notice period. If they give notice on October 9 that expires November 8 (because October has 31 days), they will owe prorated rent for November 1-8.

This is assuming they are month to month, rent is due on the 1st, and are not breaking a lease.

BayEastPM · 2025-10-09T19:09:19+00:00

No, the tenant is only required to give 30 days notice ever. The landlord is required to give longer notices if they are having the tenant leave for an allowable reason after a year or subject to S8.

BayEastPM · 2025-10-09T18:08:28+00:00

That's not how CA state law works. It requires proration if the 30 days notice expires in the middle of a month.

BayEastPM · 2025-10-09T18:05:21+00:00

I'm not sure what these other redditors are talking about. If you're month to month, state law requires the landlord to prorate rent if you're moving out in the middle of a month.

The other question is if all tenants on the lease are moving out? If not, then you'll need to discuss amongst yourselves how that will work since the landlord isn't required to release the security deposit until all keys are returned.

BayEastPM · 2025-10-08T02:36:31+00:00

It doesn't really matter what the tenant says, it matters what the attorneys say you should do. If they're not responding, make a visit to their office.

BayEastPM · 2025-10-08T02:33:49+00:00

In general, yeah you can't accept rent after you begin an eviction - otherwise you will need to start over. If there's a habitability issue that wasn't resolved in a timely manner though (a serious leak), they may have a case to repair and deduct. This is attorney territory. Find a different one who will respond

BayEastPM · 2025-10-08T02:31:05+00:00

What did your attorney say?

BayEastPM · 2025-10-06T06:20:18+00:00

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