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001 2009037839
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008 090911s2010 cau 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009037839
020 $a9781413309362 (pbk.)
020 $a1413309364 (pbk.)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
043 $an-us-ca
050 00 $aKFC145$b.P67 2010
082 00 $a346.79404/34$222
100 1 $aPortman, Janet.
245 10 $aCalifornia tenants' rights /$cby Janet Portman & David Brown.
250 $a18th ed. [updated].
260 $aBerkeley, CA :$bNolo,$cc2010.
263 $a1003
300 $ap. cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aSome general things you should know -- Who is your landlord? -- Renters' tax credit -- Lawyers -- Typing services -- Legal research -- Mediation -- Looking for a place and renting it -- Get organized -- Learn about rental agreements -- Fees and deposits -- Rental applications and credit reports -- How landlords must handle your credit information -- How to check a place over -- How to bargain for the best deal -- Get all promises in writing -- The landlord-tenant checklist -- Your responsibilities as a tenant -- Cosigning leases -- Sharing a home -- Is it legal to live together? -- The legal obligations of roommates to the landlord -- The legal obligations of roommates to each other -- Having a friend move in -- Guests -- All about rent -- When is rent due? -- Late charges -- Partial rent Payments 57 Rent Increases 57 Rent Increase Notices 58 Rent Control and Eviction?Protection 60 General Types of Rent control laws -- Rent control board hearings -- What to do if the landlord violates rent control rules -- Rent control laws -- Discrimination forbidden types of discrimination -- Legal reasons to discriminate -- How to tell if a landlord is discriminating -- What to do about discrimination -- Sexual harassment by landlords or managers -- The obnoxious landlord and your right to privacy -- Your landlord's right of entry -- What to do about a landlord's improper entry -- Other types of invasions of privacy -- Major repairs & maintenance your basic right to livable premises -- Your repair and maintenance responsibilities -- Agreeing to be responsible for repairs -- How to get action from your landlord : the light touch -- What to do if the landlord won't make repairs -- Minor repairs & maintenance -- Minor repairs : what are they? -- The landlord's responsibilities -- Agreeing to do maintenance -- Getting the landlord to make minor repairs -- Making minor repairs yourself -- Alterations & satellite dishes improvements that become part of the property -- Improving your rental without enriching your landlord -- Cable tv access -- Satellite dishes and other antennas -- Injuries on the premises -- What to do if you're injured -- Is the landlord liable? -- If you're at fault, too -- How much money you're etitled to -- Environmental hazards asbestos -- Lead -- Radon -- Carbon monoxide -- Mold -- Crime on the premises -- The landlord's basic duty to keep you safe -- Problems with other tenants -- Illegal activity on the property and nearby -- Getting results from the landlord -- Protecting yourself -- Breaking a lease, subleasing, and other leasing problems -- What happens when the lease runs out -- Subleases and assignments -- Subleasing and returning later -- How to break a lease -- Belongings you leave behind -- Security deposits and last month's rent -- Amount of deposit -- Nonrefundable deposits -- What the deposits may be used for -- Landlord's duty to return deposit -- Effect of sale of premises on security deposits -- May the landlord increase the security deposit? -- Avoiding deposit problems -- When the landlord won't return your deposit -- Rent withholding as a way to get deposits back in advance -- Interest on security deposits -- Last month's rent -- When your landlord demands more money -- Evictions -- Illegal self-help evictions -- Illegal retaliatory evictions -- Overview of eviction procedure -- Tenancy termination notices -- Your options after a three-day or 30-, 60-, or 90-day notice is served -- The eviction lawsuit -- Stopping an eviction -- Postponing an eviction -- Appeal from an eviction -- After the lawsuit-eviction by the sheriff or marshal -- Tenants acting together -- Tenant organizing -- Setting up a tenants' organization -- Getting information on the landlord -- Tactics -- Negotiations -- Collective bargaining agreement -- Renter's insurance -- Condominium conversion -- Legal protection for tenants -- Changing the law.
650 0 $aLandlord and tenant$zCalifornia$vPopular works.
700 1 $aBrown, David.