Category Archives: Tenant Buyouts

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Tenant Buyouts: The Agreement

If you have negotiated a move-out agreement with your landlord, you have to get that agreement in writing. Any landlord who balks at this is going to screw you, end of story. If I was a landlord lawyer I’d say the same thing about a tenant. Unfortunately, in my experience, I find that tenants are [...]

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Tenant Buyouts: Strategy for Success

Like a high stakes poker game, buyouts are complicated. If you want want to get the best deal possible, you must be prepared to analyze the deal using the strategies here.

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Tenant Buyouts: Your Absolute Bottom Line

Unless you are familiar with your tenant rights to statutory relocation payments in San Francisco you’ll have no idea of the value of your tenancy rights. You must live in a rent-controlled unit to receive these payments. I have talked to countless tenants who made deals with their landlords to move out, settling for less [...]

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Tenant Buyouts

“It’s a game of chicken, really,” —Ted Gullicksen, San Francisco Tenants Union. If you negotiate a buyout with your landlord, you don’t want to be the guy plummeting off the cliff. That is why we will help you if you decide to take a buyout. What is a buyout? A buyout is simply a negotiated [...]

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