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
If you have rented or rent an illegal unit contact us to recover damages. Depending on where you are and the facts and circumstances surrounding your rental you may not have to pay rent if you rent an illegal unit. An illegal unit is not the same as a unit that has...
Oct 1, 2013 | Tenant Glossary
Tenants in the Bay Area cities of San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley have additional protections in the form of limitations on a landlord’s ability to evict. This means that a landlord can only evict for specific reasons the most common of which is the...
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...
Nov 20, 2009 | Hooshmand Law Group In the News
“The public comment bell rang throughout Monday’s Land Use Committee meeting as tenant rights advocates and property owners stated their case for or against expanding just cause protection laws to housing units built after 1979. In his raspy voice, Supervisor...
