Janet Portman & J. Scott Weaver 
California Tenants’ Rights [EPUB ebook] 

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.

Inhoudsopgave

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

Over de 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.