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The California landlord's law book, attorney Nils Rosenquest

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non fiction

The California landlord's law book

1378505184

attorney Nils Rosenquest

Provides landlords with information on minimizing their legal risks, covering such topics as preparing leases and rental agreements, changing the terms of tenancy, keeping up with maintenance, and following state privacy laws

The California landlord's legal companion -- Renting your property: How to choose tenants and avoid legal pitfalls -- Understanding leases and rental agreements -- Basic rent rules -- Rent control -- Security deposits -- Property managers -- Getting the tenant moved in -- Lawyers, legal research, eviction services, and mediation -- Discrimination -- Cotenants, subtenants, and guests -- The landlord's duty to repair and maintain the property -- The landlord's liability for dangerous conditions, criminal acts, and environmental health hazards -- The landlord's right of entry and tenant's privacy -- Raising rents and changing other terms of tenancy -- Retaliatory rent increases and evictions -- The three-day notice to pay rent or quit -- Self-help evictions, utility terminations, and taking tenants' property -- Terminating tenancies -- When a tenant leaves voluntarily: month-to-month tenancies, fixed-term leases, abandonment, and death of a tenant -- Returning security deposits -- Property abandoned by a tenant

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