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

Topics Discussed:

1. AOA Million Dollar Trade Show- Los Angeles Convention Center- 3-20-24
2. Mold issues
3. Renovating a unit to terminate a tenancy
4. Los Angeles Rent Registration Certificate to be mailed to your tenant
5. Renting Rooms
6. Designating the name of the landlord on a lease
7. Tenant vacates leaving a subtenant in possession
8. Charging for parking
9. Evicting for non-payment of rent
10. Owner move-in
11. Rent increases for the City of Los Angeles
12. Selling a house is not grounds to evict
13. Separate parking agreements
14. Relocating a tenant temporarily to do required work
15. Landlord's obligation to paint
16. Terminating a resident manager
17. Evicting for an unauthorized pet
18. Rent Increases
19. Economic displacement- City of Los Angeles
20. Termination notices must be sent to the City of Los Angeles

Topics Discussed:

1. Vote No on Proposition 20 "Justice for Renters"
2.  Proposed law on pets
3. Increasing rent for additional occupants
4. Removing a parking space
5. Residential unit connected to commercial property
6. Propounding discovery in an eviction action
7. Are landlords liable for temporarly relocation
8. Determining relocation for owner occupancy
9. Illegal units
10. Mold issues
11. Tenancies less than 6 months
12. Terminating a tenancy for a single-family residence
13. Tenant required to do the gardening
14. Maximum occupancy laws
15. Meeting the Sheriff for a lockout
16. Repair requests in writing
17. All Zoom meeting are recorded

Topics Discussed:

1. Raising rent for additional occupants
2. Evicting for owner occupancy
3. Accepting rent from subtenants
4. Ellis Act evictions
5. Renter's insurance
6. Status Conference Dates
7. Los rental agreement
8. Renovation evictions
9. Section 8 "Ability to Pay"
10. Distrubution of the security deposit after tenant dies
11. Requirement to provide tenants with a new ownership letter
12. Los Angeles City requirements for landlords
13. Disturbing airbnb tenants
14. Obtaining keys for your unit
15. No rent limitations on single-family residents
16. Collecting Covid rent
17. Tenant choosing to reduce rent
18. Tenant growing marijuana.

Topics Discussed:

1. Methods upon which tenant may pay the rent
2. Tresspasser taking possession
3. Rent threshold for the City of Los Angeles
4. Relocation for temporary displacement
5. Renter's insurance
6. Voluntary vacate agreements
7. Rasing rent in Los Angeles City
8. Increasing the security deposit
9. Inspection regarding the security deposit prior to tenant vacating
10. Selecting a management company
11. Collection Covid rent 
12.  Unruly pets
13. Determining if a tenant has abandoned the unit
14. Serving a lawsuit by an "Order to Post"
15. Taking possession of a unit if the tenant dies
16. Requirment to notify applicants that there has been a death in the unit

Topics Discussed:

1. Eviction can proceed for Covid rent
2. Rent increases for Section 8 Tenants
3. Rent reduction for habitability issues
4. Couny of LA requirement of a 30 Day Notice to Pay Rent struck down
5. Terminating a tenant to allow for owner occupancy
6. Advance rent payments
7. Spanish rental agreements
8. Selling a tenant occupied single-family residence
9. Violating a lease by having a pet
10. Serving a lawsuit by way of an "Order to Post"
11. Section 8 new law, "Ability to Pay"
12. Short term rentals
13. Emotional Support Animals
14. 15 day notice to pay rent
15. Accessory dwelling units
16. Security deposit itemization
17. Late fees
18. Tenancy at will
19. Accessing a unit

Items Discussed

1. LA City forcing landlords to install air conditioners
2. Covid rent now due 
3. Selecting the first qualified applicant
4. LA County rent increases
5. Storing personal property in common areas
6. Raising rent on a Section 8 tenant
7. Notices that need be posted on LA residential property
8. Obtaining holdover rent damages in an unlawful detainer action
9. Deduction for failure to return keys in a security deposit
10. Renting rooms.
11. Tenant filing lawsuit against their landlord
12. Lease becomes a month to month tenancy by operation of law
13. Tenant required to serve a 30 day notice when vacating
14. SFR exempt from Statewide Rent Control
15. Unlimited rent increases on a condo
16. Terminating a Section 8 tenancy
17. Unauthorized tenants in violation of the lease agreement
18. Requirement to return all rent paid when the unit is illegal.

Topics Discussed

1.Tenant Insurance

2. Rent owed in Los Angeles from 10-21-21 through 1-31-23

3. Voluntary Vacate Agreements

4. Increasing security deposits

5. Interest on security deposits in Los Angeles

6. Renovation evictions

7. Tenant declares bankruptcy

8. Illegal rent increase

9. Renting to first qualified applicant

10. E-Bikes

11. Unusal wear and tear

12. Are landlords required to supply appliances

13. Hoarding

14. Serving rent increases

15. Illegal units

16. Jury trials

Items Discussed:

1. The Initiative "Justice For Renters"
2. Raise your rents to market level for non-rent control properties
3. Names to be included in a 3 day notice
4. Co-Signers
5. Paying rent by Zelle
6. Partial rent payments
7. Tenants asking for a jury trial
8. Filing a demurre
9. Personal property stored in a parking space
10. Charging existing tenants for water
11. Remodeling RSO propertise
12. Ellis Act Evictions
13. Nuisance Tenants 
14. Landlord refuses to fix the Jucuzzi
15. Tenant fails to give landlord the Rent Relief Funds.

Topics Discussed:

1. Cannot use a credit check for Section 8 applicants
2. Lease all units on a month-to-month tenancy only
3. Removing a tenant from an illegal unit
4. How to terminate an expiring lease
5. Obligation of a landlord when a tenant is locked out
6. Raising rent for townhouses, condominiums, and single-family residences
7. A tenant's obligation to pay rent when forced to temporary relocate
8. Evicting unauthorized tenants
9. Bad legal advice
10. Terminating a tenancy to allow your grandfather to move in
11. Duty to inspect for lead and abestos
12. Afraid to take legal action due to a threat of a jury trial
13. Determining if a tenant has abandoned the premies.