Re: DIrty Tenant - Landlord Forum thread 132163

Re: DIrty Tenant by Terry on October 23, 2006 @03:53

I SURE wish one could post more than a very limited number of characters per post here. I was just going to post the link but I actually thought it best to post the "summary" here for any other L.A. CA LL's as many have NO IDEA what they have gotten into.

My apologies for the number of posts/length.

If your property is truly under rent control in L.A. as you see above you cannot just terminate them with no reason with 30 days notice without paying a huge sum of money and even then it still has to be one of the approved reasons.

Not sure if the original poster here is under L.A. or ANOTHER rent control but since someone posted something not correct about the L.A. one I thought it might help to post this here.

If it is too hard to read here, use the link provided.

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Re: DIrty Tenant by Barbara on October 23, 2006 @10:17	[ Reply ]

I live right outside of New York City. My guidelines do NOT fall under the NYC guidelines... they are in Westchester County New York. The building is a thirteen apt unit and was built about seventy years ago. Thanks for the info on LA..

Re: DIrty Tenant by Terry on October 24, 2006 @06:19

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Barbara..I didn't post the L.A. for you but rather for someone else in this thread (I HATE the way the replies work here..SO confusing) who mentioned it.

You said in your original post that you WERE in A rent control area.

And you almost seemed to imply you would like to know if there was any other way other than going through the "process" to evict someone..the answer is NO. Only the court can evict someone..you MUST go through the process per your own STATE and LOCAL government.

Re: DIrty Tenant by Anonymous on October 23, 2006 @12:04

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Sorry, Terry. I called the rent stabilization board AND spoke with an eviction attorney. Both said that no reason is needed to give 30 days notice to move even in rent control building. I have done this several times.

Now, I don't BANK on anything that a government employee tells me, however, I have spoken to several other LL's in the area who are also under rent control, and this is their understanding as well.

It's possible that we are ALL wrong, but unlikely.

Re: DIrty Tenant by Terry on October 24, 2006 @05:55

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If you are in Los Angeles proper and your building falls under that..the rules posted above DO apply.

If you've been able to successfully go around them..great..but I wouldn't bank on it.

I have read the actual CODE..I suggest you do too...in case you ever get challenged.

If however you are just in a rent stabilized area not in L.A. proper which is what the "summary" I posted applies to, you can terminate w/o falling under one of the reasons listed above.

Good luck...I would never want to own in L.A.

Re: DIrty Tenant by Terry on October 24, 2006 @06:17

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In case you miss my other post..the summary is not "technical" word for word of the ordinances and amendments but on the link I posted for you you can download ALL of the actual code/info and then compare it to the summary.

Yes it is written in a liberal "tenant friendly" dramatic slant but pretty much if you read the CODE most of it is "real"...though the guy stretches it a bit huh? It IS an easy to read "summary" though...and trust me every tenant in L.A. knows about it and refers to it ha ha.

I don't claim to be NOR WOULD I EVER WANT TO BE an expert in L.A. LOL. NO WAY I'd ever own there or any other rent controlled area if I can help it. It's bad enough I have to read about the hundreds of lawsuits in the paper each day where LL's in L.A. did NOT follow the law and lost lots of money as a result.

Anyway...if you find IN THE ACTUAL UPDATED/AMENDED CODE any differences to the summary, instead of saying "it's flat wrong" why not cite the correction and actual code to go with it...and write to the author too.

I so would hate to own in L.A. but respect those who do. Unless of course I owned an excempt property..nah..STILL wouldn't want to own in L.A. LOL.

Re: DIrty Tenant by Anonymous on October 23, 2006 @13:28	[ Reply ]

Terry, WHERE did you get this info???? Some of it is flat wrong.

Re: DIrty Tenant by Terry on October 24, 2006 @06:03

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There are links on the page where this came from of the actual ordinance along with the many many many amendments over the years - several just in the last year.

I would suggest reading the actual ordinances and all subsequent amendments directly and then if you still see something wrong in the summary I suppose you could contact them....

www.caltenantlaw.com/LARSO.htm

Re: DIrty Tenant by Terry on October 24, 2006 @06:06

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By the way..they are very clear as was I when I posted it as I included this part..it is not technically perfect because it has been simplified and their disclaimer is to READ THE ORDINANCES directly..but overall though it is sided to tenants it is pretty much what is in the ordinances and amendments..just a bit more dramatic LOL.

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More tenants come under Los Angeles Rent Stabilization Ordinance [LARSO] than in any other city in California, found in the Los Angeles Municipal Code [LAMC] Sections 151 - 151.21. Many rent control laws are similar, and you can get the details on each law from the Legal Research page of this site. The information on this page is directed only to Los Angeles tenants. The information here is simplified, and therefore technically inaccurate. For those who want to read the actual ordinance and actual regulations, they are on this website for you to read and download for free:

Re: DIrty Tenant (Really, it's a new subject) by Renie on October 26, 2006 @23:37	[ Reply ]

My landlord wants to raise our rent from $2,500 to $4,000! We live in a single family house, however there is an illegally converted garage which he has rented out as a guest house to two different tenants during our 6 year tenancy. Right now it is unoccupied, but he just repainted it. We never had access to it, but we have photos that show it has a bedroom, separate kitchen and bathroom. He has not registered this unit. What do we do?