Oct 1, 2013 | Tenant Glossary
San Francisco Tenant SRO’s A single room occupancy (more commonly called SRO) is a multiple-tenant building that houses one or two people in individual rooms (sometimes two rooms, or two rooms with a bathroom or half bathroom), or to the single room dwelling...
Oct 1, 2013 | Tenant Glossary
San Francisco Anti Harassment Proposition M (a) No landlord, and no agent, contractor, subcontractor or employee of the landlord shall do any of the following in bad faith or with ulterior motive or without honest intent: 1. Interrupt, terminate or fail to provide...
Oct 1, 2013 | Tenant Glossary
Bay Area Unlawful Detainer Lawsuits An unlawful detainer action is a specific type of lawsuit which mainly addresses the issue of possession i.e. the right to occupy the apartment. The landlord files this type of action in order to recover possession of the apartment....
Oct 1, 2013 | Tenant Glossary
Retaliatory eviction is where a landlord takes actions against a tenant for requesting repairs, complaining to the Department of Building and Inspection, or taking other actions to stand for your rights. The California legislature has provided for protections should a...
Oct 1, 2013 | Tenant Glossary
San Francisco has very stringent rules in place to protect tenants’ rights. In many instances, landlords ignore these rules in order to maximize their income and often at the expense of their tenant(s). Despite the existence of numerous avenues for landlords to...
Oct 1, 2013 | Tenant Glossary
Since 1971, the SF Tenants Union has been fighting for the rights of tenants and for the preservation of affordable housing in San Francisco. From the struggle for rent control in the 1970s to 1998’s Proposition G (to end the abuses of OMI evictions), the...
Oct 1, 2013 | Tenant Glossary
The San Francisco Rent Ordinance regulates rents and evictions for certain residential rental units in San Francisco. There is no commercial rent control in San Francisco. The Rent Board’s primary function is to conduct hearings and mediations of tenant and...
Aug 13, 2011 | Hooshmand Law Group In the News
The Rent Board is a great resource for answering questions related to your tenancy. The purview of the Rent Board is to provide information regarding your tenancy and to also adjudicate some landlord tenant disputes. The problem is that if you later file a...
