In San Francisco under current law, a landlord can increase a rent-controlled tenant’s rent with a “debt service” passthrough. This is a loophole in the San Francisco Rent Ordinance that allows a landlord to buy a building using a large loan and then pass through the cost of servicing the loan (i.e., making interest payments) […]
What damages can you get for tenants in wrongful eviction cases?
The most important measure of damages in a wrongful eviction case is the value of a lost rent-controlled unit. So, if a tenant has been residing in a rent-controlled unit for 20 years, and was paying below market rate rent, they can’t just move to another apartment at the same rent down the street. If […]
Owner Move-In Fraud
Owner move-in fraud occurs when an owner of a residential property in a rent control jurisdiction in the Bay Area, typically San Francisco, Oakland or Berkeley, gives a notice of eviction to a tenant and evicts a tenant falsely stating that the dominant motive of their eviction is to physically move into the rental unit […]
How Wrongful Eviction Lawyers Prove Your Case
To establish a tenant’s wrongful eviction case, we interview the tenant to get the facts of the case and conduct our own investigation of the property and the landlord. We often hire a private investigator to determine where the landlord really lives and who is living in the property. When appropriate, we hire a private […]
Landlord Retaliation
What type of retaliatory conduct from my landlord could result in a lawsuit? There are several scenarios when landlord retaliation is actionable. For example, if a tenant complains about a habitability issue, such as something is broken, and the landlord refuses to fix it and chooses to evict the tenant instead. Another type of retaliation […]
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