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My Why- Why I Became an SRES®
March 6th, 2021Economic Cycles & Real Estate Investments
January 7th, 2021Real estate investing is, in essence, the art of determining the value of a cash-flow asset through a progression of time that includes: past, present, and future. An investor must have the mindset to comprehend the economic phases of the real estate market in order to better determine how the asset will perform on an […]
How Timely are Rent Payments?
December 20th, 2020COVID-19 Rent Delinquencies
December 20th, 2020Due to COVID-19 mandates, there have been some changes to the legal notification process landlord must convey to tenants. The Tenant Relief Act was passed in California stating that tenants could not be evicted if they did not pay rent for reasons related to to the COVID-19 Pandemic. The effective period for the initial phase […]
COVID-19 – How it will Change the Way People Buy Homes
May 27th, 2020The coronavirus pandemic has changed how business is conducted in nearly every sector, and real estate is certainly no exception. People will always need a place to live, but what kind of homes they look for—and how they conduct their search—is likely to be very different in the coming months than it has been in […]
Weinstein’s Group Move to Make RAA Law
May 6th, 2020In 2018, voter’s rejected Proposition 10, which was a measure to dismantle the Costa-Hawkins Rental Act and would have made instituting rent control ordinances feasible for local municipalities. It was my contention that AIDS Foundation Chairman, Michael Weinstein, who was behind the push to get Proposition 10 on ballot, would pursue a new rent control […]
Rent Defaults, UD’s and COVID-19
April 26th, 2020The economic impact of Coronavirus/COVID-19 is now felt throughout much of the nation with record numbers of unemployment benefit filings. The current crisis has created another problem for investors of residential multi-family properties. The Judicial Council for the State of California has issued Emergency Rules relating to crisis that remain in effect for a period […]
Legislation Highlights
May 9th, 2019The first quarter of 2019 saw a volume of proposed legislation relating to the rental housing industry with several bills, acts, and ordinances that could go on the ballot. The following list are of potential interest to landlords.
Senate Bill 969_Garage Door Openers
March 7th, 2019Several deaths during the 2017 Northern California wildfires prompted then Governor Brown to sign legislation into law requiring any automatic garage door sold after July 2019 to have a back up battery to provide power in the event of a power outage. SB 969 became law on 9/21/18 and amends 19891 of the Health and […]
Estate Planning for Property Owners
January 18th, 2019A common question we are asked at our office is whether assets should be placed in a trust and why. Most homeowners are aware that if they hold title as joint tenants with a spouse when one of them passes the property goes to the remaining spouse under ‘rights of survivorship’. Although the outcome of […]