Re: DIrty Tenant - Landlord Forum thread 132149

Re: DIrty Tenant by Terry on October 23, 2006 @03:42

(1) The cost of installation of smoke detectors was a charge that the landlord could pass through to his tenants at $3 per month for hard-wired and 50 cents per month for battery operated detectors. However, that cost had to be removed from the monthly charge once the landlord's costs were recovered [Reg 340.11]; most landlord used the surcharge-enhanced monthly rent as their basis for making the next increase, year after year.
(2) Similarly, the landlord might have increased the monthly rent by 10% due to an additional tenant who joined you years ago for a few months, and never dropped the rent back down after that additional tenant left, as he was required to do. [Reg 310.08]
(3) Water Conservation Penalty Surcharges imposed during the 90's enabled the landlord to pass through 50% of any penalty imposed for excessive water use to the tenants, but only temporarily, to recover that 50% portion, and then to remove the surcharge. [LAMC 151.06.2]
(4) Capital Improvements to the unit, building, or common areas may have resulted in permitted temporary rent increases to reimburse the landlord for the construction expenses, which were instead illegally kept on as permanent increases. They may have been done in the 80's or 90's, and were supposed to terminate in 5 years, with the costs extended in monthly payments, but then end with the rent be reduced by that surcharge. [Reg. 212.08]

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