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Eviction Essentials and Lease Management
REFRESH Real Estate Leasing Tips for Nonprofits
Key Lease Work Letter Issues When the Tenant Is Doing the Work
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Nonprofit Tenants and Lease Agreements: Best Practices and Pitfalls to Avoid
SDNY Chooses “Time Approach” to Calculating Lease Termination Damages Collectible Against a Bankrupt Estate
When Can Oregon Landlords Terminate Residential Tenancy Without Cause?
Practicing on the Front Lines of Landlord-Tenant Regulations and Housing Law
How Commercial Property Owners Can Collect Unpaid Rent from Commercial Tenants
It’s Lit? Insight into the Increase in Cannabis-Related Litigation in California
Landlord and Tenant Lease Risk Reduction for the Cannabis Industry
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 319: Listen and Learn -- Negligence: Duties of Landlords, Owners, and Possessors of Land
Law Brief®: Robert Wolf, Alexander Tiktin and Richard Schoenstein Discuss the Continuing Foreclosure/Eviction Moratorium
[Webinar] Cannabis Real Estate Considerations
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 149: Listen and Learn -- Negligence: Duties of Landlords, Owners, and Possessors of Land
Troutman Pepper COVID-19 Legal Issues Podcast Series: COVID-19 Commercial Leasing Trends (Part Two)
Commercial/Retail Therapy: Assessing the Pandemic’s Impact on Real Estate
Law Brief®: Debra Bodian Bernstein and Richard Schoenstein Discuss Commercial Lease Defaults During COVID-19
COVID-19 in the Workplace - PPP Update, COVID Plans from the Biden Transition Team, Higher Education Relief Package Provision, COVID WARN Act Developments
Voluntary rent reporting — a process by which tenants can ask landlords to report positive rental payment information to nationwide consumer reporting agencies to help such tenants build their credit — is gaining traction...more
Senate Bill 1103, which took effect on January 1, 2025, amends sections 827, 1632, 1946.1, and 1950.9 of the California Civil Code. This legislation grants new lease protections to “qualified commercial tenants.”...more
After serving a 30-day notice to terminate a commercial lease and filing an unlawful detainer case, a landlord continued to bill a tenant for rent and common area maintenance (CAM) fees, and unconditionally accepted rent...more
State and local governments enacted new protections for residential tenants in the wake of the firestorms that razed large parts of Southern California. These protections are intended to help tenants navigate the challenges...more
As devastating wildfires displace thousands in Los Angeles County, Governor Newsom has declared a state of emergency. In the wake of this crisis, California’s price-gouging laws impose strict limits on rental price increases...more
On September 30, 2024, Governor Newsom signed into law Senate Bill 1103, an unprecedented legislative measure affecting non-residential landlords’ transactions with a broadly defined class of “qualified commercial tenants.”...more
A new California Senate bill (SB 1103 or the Bill) provides commercial tenant protections by amending several sections of the California Civil Code relating to commercial tenancy. These statutory protections will apply...more
California law has long treated commercial and residential tenancies differently. Consumer protection-focused regulations enacted to protect residential tenants were legally considered inapplicable to business tenants which...more
Effective July 1, 2024, California residential landlords will generally only be able to charge security deposits equal to one month’s rent with some exceptions for smaller landlords. This is pursuant to Assembly Bill 12...more
In an effort to alleviate the financial burdens faced by small residential landlords during the ongoing economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, Los Angeles County has introduced the Los Angeles County Rent Relief...more
It seems like year-after-year, attempts are made to reform or repeal California’s rent control regulations, namely the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act (Civ. Code §§ 1954.50 et seq.) (Costa-Hawkins Act). 2024 has proven to be...more
A consortium of San Francisco landlords and property owners filed a lawsuit last week challenging the city’s new tax on vacant residences as unconstitutional and a violation of state law. Proposition M, “The Empty Homes Tax,”...more
In what may turn out to be a lesson on the limits of the application of equitable doctrines supporting rent relief in the face of good lease drafting, a California court of appeal panel in San Diego has taken a narrow view on...more
The long moratorium on most evictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the de facto shutdown of the court system for civil matters, caused most California landlords to defer unlawful detainer and related...more
Following the passage of its commercial eviction moratorium for certain qualified tenants in December 2020, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, on August 4, 2021, provided additional assistance to the same class of...more
On July 20, 2021, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved an amendment to the San Francisco Commercial Eviction Moratorium Ordinance (Moratorium Amendment) codifying a legal presumption to potentially...more
On Jan. 29, 2021, Gov. Newsom signed legislation to extend California’s eviction moratorium through June 30, 2021....more
As if owners of single-family homes and condominiums did not have enough to worry about in the current pandemic environment, in Owens v. City of Oakland Housing, Residential Rent and Relocation Board (Owens) (filed May 29,...more
There is an interplay between local efforts such as the new City of Los Angeles residential eviction moratorium ordinance (see Part 1 of this Breaking Ground Blog series, "City of L.A.'s New Ordinance Foretells More Trouble...more
Unlike many other urban areas, most apartment tenancies in Los Angeles last only a year on average before a tenant moves on, and if a tenant leaves with outstanding amounts unpaid, the landlord must decide whether to pursue...more