California Tenants' Rights - Softcover

Portman, Janet; Brown, David

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9781413318173: California Tenants' Rights

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1413318177 ISBN 13: 9781413318173

Publisher: NOLO, 2013

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Protecting California tenants' rights since 1971!

Many tenants have to deal with roommates who don't pull their weight, neighbors who routinely engage in illegal activities, landlords who don't know -- or won’t follow -- national or state laws and local rent ordinances. Use this book to give you the information and tips you need to protect and assert your rights as a renter in California.

. Find out how to:
. understand and negotiate a lease
. inspect a rental before moving in
. fight discrimination
. get needed repairs and maintenance
. deal with a nosy landlord
. break a lease with minimum fall-out
. get your security deposit back
. figure out rules for rent increases
. fight an eviction

This edition of California Tenants' Rights is completely updated with the latest laws and official legal forms, and covers new legislation on protections for tenants caught in foreclosed properties.Check out Nolo's list of California products. Not a California resident? Check out Renter's Rights.

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About the Author:

As Nolo's managing editor, Janet Portman oversees editorial work on all Nolo books. She specializes in residential and commercial landlord/tenant law, legal issues related to courts, landlords and tenants, and neighbor disputes. She is the author or co-author of Every Landlord's Legal Guide, Every Tenant's Legal Guide, Renters' Rights, Leases & Rental Agreements, The California Landlord's Law Book: Rights and Responsibilities and others. A nationally syndicated columnist with Inman News, Portman's column, "Rent It Right," appears regularly in the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and other prominent newspapers and websites. Portman received undergraduate and graduate degrees from Stanford University and a law degree from Santa Clara University. Before joining Nolo in 1994, she practiced law as a public defender.

David Brown practices law in the Monterey, California area, where he has represented both landlords and tenants in hundreds of court cases -- most of which he felt could have been avoided if both sides were more fully informed about landlord/tenant law. Brown, a graduate of Stanford University and the University of Santa Clara Law School, also teaches law at the Monterey College of Law and is the author of Fight Your Ticket in California, Beat Your Ticket and others.

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"Every renter in California should know about [California Tenants' Rights]..." San Francisco Chronicle

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