Landlords hoping to change recently
passed tenant protections failed Tuesday night to convince the San
Francisco Rent Board that the law should only apply to new leases.The new ordinance, part of a package of tenant protections...Click here to read the full story
A new law requiring additional tenant notification on prior bed bug infestations. The disclosure requirement took effect for new tenants July 1 and will apply to existing tenants Jan. 1. It requires landlords to provide tenant with a bed bug history of the apartment while prohibiting them from “showing, renting, or leasing a vacant dwelling unit that the landlord knows has a bed bug infestation.” Full text of legislation can be viewed at: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB551