Tenant Protection for California Tenants On January 1, 2020, California enacted Statewide eviction control, and capped the amount of rent increases that most landlords can impose upon residential tenants. The bill that changed the law creates two new sections of the Civil
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There are Many Exceptions to Statewide Rent Control It is important to realize that the new Civil Code Section which establishes Statewide rent control, § 1947.12, does not apply to every kind of rental property. The following list of rental properties are
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Your Rights as a Tenant are not Just Determined by the Law, but also by the Facts of Your Specific Circumstances The law is an abstraction of reality, but it does not operate in a vacuum. What this means is that judges
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Civil Code §1946.2 may not Displace Other Local Laws that Protect Tenants from Unjust Eviction Several cities across California already have ordinances that require just cause to evict residential tenants. Whether these municipal ordinances will be replaced by the new statewide eviction
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