As a landlord, your top priorities are to ensure that your property is well-maintained and profitable. Finding the right tenants is crucial to achieving these goals. Tenant screening is a necessary process that helps you assess the suitability of potential tenants for your rental property. California law limits how you…
Landlords and tenants have a business relationship. Like all relationships, sometimes they hit rough patches or break down. Who has a right to do what depends on the lease or rent agreement’s language and landlord and tenant and contract laws. But just because legal rights are at play doesn’t mean…
The eviction process is very technical, with hard deadlines and many opportunities to make mistakes. It’s a last resort if the relationship with the tenant has broken down and they’re breaching their lease. Many legal requirements must be met before asking a court to order a tenant to move out….
Welcome to the AWB Law Real Estate Newsletter! In this edition, we will be discussing some common problems faced by property owners and how our team can assist you in overcoming them. At AWB Law, we understand the complexities of real estate ownership and are committed to providing expert legal…
There are many good reasons to keep your property as well-maintained as possible. Some of them concern the law. If the unit or building gets in rough enough shape, the tenant may have legal justification to use the rent payment to pay for maintenance, stop paying rent, or break the…
A lease, like all contracts, needs to balance covering essential issues without being so long and complex that neither you nor your tenant will want to sign it. It should be written using non-technical language without legalese. If you want to create a new lease or want the one you…
The landlord-tenant relationship is highly regulated in California thanks to laws and ordinances on the federal, state, and local levels. Property owners and managers have better things to do than develop expertise in this area of law. Anthony Burton advises, counsels, and represents landlords in all areas of related law,…
Alexander Abel of Boise, Idaho, is in a jam. The company that built his house says it’s done. They’re not too concerned it’s unsafe and violates building codes because the home has a certificate of occupancy. Is it their fault a Boise building inspector approved it without seeing the building…
Squatters are people occupying property without the consent of the party owning or leasing it. There have been squatters for as long as people have owned property, but there are modern twists to this age-old practice. Squatters have limited rights. Depending on how persistent or violent they may be, this…
California is the third largest state by physical size, behind only Alaska and Texas, at about 163,695 square miles. You could fit about two Kansases or four West Virginias in the state. You might think with all this room to build, housing should be more affordable. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work…
