Despite city efforts to regulate the short-term rentals of San
Francisco’s estimated 8,000 residential units that are posted on
Internet-hosting venues—spaces once viewed as a cornerstone of long-term
housing—thousands of property holders continue to ignore the new rules. Click here to read 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