Beautiful San Francisco, California As the seasons change, thoughts of winter winds and snow begin to haunt our mood. This winter may be a longer one according to the weather people. How about breaking the cold season into manageable sections, with trips to interesting, captivating locales such as San Francisco? We've got a very nice…

Will Rent Controls Spread? As we wrote in this post originally, the threat of rent controls are real. And to prove it, just this week California approved new rent control measures.  And in New York, there is concern rent controls will be extended as court battles rage. Since state governments want to avoid renter subsidies…

Lease Agreement 101 – Evictions Tenants are often fearful to hear the word of “lease termination” or “eviction’. Yet a landlord can indeed terminate the lease agreement if tenant materially breaches the lease terms. Tenants should pay extra attention to the lease terms, timeline on written notice to vacate the units, as well as the…

California’s Housing Market Forecast This report on the US housing market covers important data including California home prices, sales, recent trends from CAR, NAR, Statista, Zillow and more, and predict what might be next for 2020. August home sales showed from July, although sales are still up from August 2018. Sales are buoyed by lower…

Apartment Rent Prices Rise Amidst a market where affordability and rent controls are the subject of activist pro rent control protests, rent prices appear to rising fast in 2019. Zumper reports that rents are growing strongly again in September while new construction starts at their lowest in several years. Multifamily starts have plummeted according to…