Many tenants have to deal with roommates who don’t pull their weight, neighbors who routinely engage in illegal activities, landlords who don’t know — or won’t follow — national or state laws and local rent ordinances. Use this book to give you the information and tips you need to protect and assert your rights as a renter in California.
Find out how to:
understand and negotiate a lease
inspect a rental before moving in
fight discrimination
get needed repairs and maintenance
deal with a nosy landlord
break a lease with minimum fall-out
get your security deposit back
figure out rules for rent increases
fight an eviction.
Table des matières
1. Looking for a Place and Renting It
2. Sharing a Home
3. All About Rent
4. Discrimination
5. The Obnoxious Landlord and Your Privacy
6. Major Repairs & Maintenance
7. Minor Repairs & Maintenance
8. Alterations & Satellite Dishes
9. Injuries on the Premises
10. Environmental Hazards
11. Crime on the Premises
12. Breaking a Lease, Subleasing, and Other Leasing Problems
13. Security Deposits and Last Month’s Rent
14. Evictions
15. Renter’s Insurance
16. Condominium Conversion
17. Lawyers, Legal Research, and Mediation
A. Forms
Index
A propos de l’auteur
Attorney J. Scott Weaver has been a San Francisco tenant and housing activist for over 40 years. He’s spent the last 30 years exclusively representing San Francisco Bay Area tenants. Scott has litigated several hundred tenant cases involving eviction, wrongful eviction, and habitability issues (including mold, asbestos, and bedbugs), and has brought tenant class action lawsuits. He has taught landlord tenant law at various legal education seminars.
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