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Four Ways Apartment Owners Can Capture Development Value in a Sale by Eric Lowe
This article explores four ways an apartment owner can approach the sale of a property with redevelopment potential. The goal is to help an owner understand their options and select a structure that balances potential value with preferred timing, financial objectives, and…
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Why Digital Accessibility Matters in Property Management by The Fair Housing Institute
When property management professionals hear the word “accessibility,” they often think about the physical features of a community. They picture accessible parking spaces, curb cuts, ramps, elevators, wider doorways, grab bars, and other features that help people with…
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Rent Control’s Revenge By Christian Britschgi
Welcome to another edition of Rent Free. Currently, we have two stories on the revenge of rent control. In the midst of San Francisco’s AI boom, Mayor Daniel Lurie and the Board of Supervisors are proposing a raft of new laws to tighten the city’s rent control policies and…
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How to Best Manage Your Long-Time Resident Manager By Gary Ganchrow, Esq.
In my many years dealing with resident manager issues, I have noticed certain characteristics that resident managers often exhibit – although I am sure there are many exceptions – when he or she has worked for a long time at the same building. Such onsite managers: (1) tend to…
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Legal Q & A
Below are questions asked by rental property owners regarding California rent control laws, followed by answers provided by eviction attorney Dennis Block. Question One: I own a multi-family rental property where water and sewer utilities are included in the monthly rent. One of…
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California Courts Changed the Prop 13 Tax Rules – Prop 43 Restores Them by Susan Shelley
The November ballot measure Proposition 43 will make it harder to raise taxes in California by restoring the two-thirds vote requirement for local special taxes. A “special tax” is one that earmarks the revenue for specific purposes. Ever since voters approved Proposition 13 in…
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Despite Fines, Local Governments Will Spend TAX DOLLARS on Campaigns by Jon Coupal
As the November election gets closer, be on guard for local governments openly supporting tax hikes – and spending taxpayer dollars doing so. While local officials are free to support or oppose ballot measures, they may not spend public funds on any election contest – either for…
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The Lower the Water Supplies Drop, the Higher the Stakes Become by Dan Walters
Since the earliest years of its history, California has been a political battlefield over divvying up the state’s water. The intensity of the multisided conflict, like water itself, ebbs and flows. By happenstance, this is one of the more intense and climactic periods in the…
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Your Living Trust Protects Your Family – NOT Your Assets Ali Talai, Esq., LL.M.
What It Takes to Build a Trust That Can Arm Itself Almost every apartment owner I meet has a living trust. Most of them believe it does something for them if they get sued. It does not, and it never did. A revocable living trust is superb at what it was built for: avoiding…
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Five Best Under-the-Radar Midwest Towns for Single-Family Rental Investors by Aaron Mears
What Makes a Midwest Town Worth Watching for Rental Investors? A Midwest town is worth watching for rental investors because it has affordable home prices, steady rental demand, strong local employment and room for rental income to cover expenses. You don’t need a booming city…