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Posts
Cave Living
- Tenant Troubles: My Building Has Turned Into A Den Of Crime
- Do I Seriously Have To Hang A "Do Not Flush Tampons" Sign In My Bathroom?
- Does My Landlord Need To Reimburse Me When I Can't Use The Garage?
- Tenant Troubles: How Do I Get My Landlord To Fix The Elevator?
- Tenant Troubles: Does My Landlord Need To Clean My Chimney?
- Tenant Troubles: Should I Rent An Apartment That's In Bad Shape?
- Is My Landlord Required To Replace My 25-Year-Old Carpet?
- Tenant Troubles: Can I Replace My Sink Without My Landlord's Permission?
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: A Neighboring Restaurant's Rats Are Attacking My Apartment
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Our Landlord's Sawing Is Making Life Miserable
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: My Landlord's Trying To Punish Me For Complaining About Lead Paint
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: My Sink Stinks
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: I Stopped Paying My Rent Because Of Maintenance Issues, Now I'm Getting Evicted
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: How Do I Get My Landlord To Pay For Property Damage They Caused?
- Landlord Tenant News: March 27 to April 2, 2010
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Pigeon Poop Problems
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Roach Recourse?
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Are Broken Elevators Against The Law?
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Ant Infestation
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: How Can I Get My Landlord To Consistently Heat My Apartment?
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: How Do I Get Affordable Heat?
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Smoked Out
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Wet, Cold, And Moldy
- Time To Get Medieval?
- Every Tenant Has One--An Implied Warranty of Habitability
- A Cave By Any Other Name
Illegal Unit
- Tenant Troubles: My Landlord Is Selling My Building, How Pessimistic Should I Be?
- Tenant Troubles: Can My Landlord Raise My Rent By $300/Month?
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Does My Illegal In-Law Make My Single Family House Into A Rent-Controlled Building?
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Can My Landlord Evict Me For Smoking Cannabis?
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Can I Be Evicted Just Because My Apartment's An Illegal Unit?
Pets
- Tenant Troubles: Can My Landlord Refuse To Allow Me A Service Animal?
- Landlord Tenant News: September 18 to September 24, 2010
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: How Do I Get My Landlord To Allow Me To Get A Dog?
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: How Do I Ask For Permission To Get A Dog?
- Landlord Tenant News: January 30 to February 5, 2010
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Prohibited Pets Could Put You In The Doghouse
Roommates
- Tenant Troubles: My Landlord Said I Could Add Roommates, Then Changed His Mind
- Tenant Troubles: My (Ex) Girlfriend's Moving Out, Will My Rent Be Going Up?
- My Landlord's Threatening To Evict Me Because My Boyfriend Moved In To Take Care of Me
- Tenant Troubles: I Think My Roommate Is Crazy, How Can I Get Her Out?
- My Absentee Master Tenant Was Scamming Me And My Landlord
- Am I Still The Master Tenant If I Moved Out Of My Apartment For Six Years?
- My Master Tenant's Fallen In Love, Am I Screwed?
- Can I Be Evicted For Subletting Without Permission?
- Can I Get Away With Putting My Apartment On Airbnb Without Informing My Landlord?
- I Think My Landlord Is Crazy, Do I Need To Move Out?
- Why Can't My Wife Sign Our Rent Check?
- Tenant Troubles: Can Our Landlord Kick Us Out When Our Roommate Moves?
- Tenant Troubles: I Think My Master Tenant Is Scamming Me
- Tenant Troubles: When I Break My Lease, Is My Roommate Screwed?
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: My Landlord Won't Let My Boyfriend Move In
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Is My New Husband Going To Get Me Evicted?
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: I Need To Swap Girlfriends (On My Lease)
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Adding A Roommate, Losing A Garage
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: My Landlord Wants To Jack Up My Rent Because I'm Getting A New Roommate
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: How Do I Dump A Deadbeat Roommate?
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Read Your Lease
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: What Rules Govern Master Tenants?
- Landlord Consent, Roommates, Red Herrings, Three Dog Night
- Need a New Roommate? Father Knows Best
- Bad Master Tenant
Security Deposits
- Can My Landlord Keep My Deposit Because He Wants To Replace The Range Hood?
- Do I Have To Give My Landlord My Pot Rack?
- Can My Landlord Make Me Pay To Replace The Carpet?
- Can My Landlord Hang On To My Deposit For Utility Bills?
- Tenant Troubles: Are There Penalties For A Late Security Deposit Interest Payment?
- Tenant Troubles: Is It Too Late For Me To Sue To Get My Security Deposit Back?
- Tenant Troubles: How Do I Figure Out The Interest My Landlord Owes Me For My Deposit?
- Tenant Troubles: This Is Why You Take Photographs At Move In
- Tenant Troubles Classic: Stop Wishin' And Hopin' To Get Your Deposit Back, And Get To Court
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: My Former Landlord Won't Return My Security Deposit Or Call Me Back
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: How Do I Get My Deposit Back If My Building's In Foreclosure?
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Surprise! You're Not Getting Your Deposit Back!
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Do I Still Need To Worry About Getting My Deposit From Citiapartments?
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: My Landlord Filed For Bankruptcy, Is My Deposit Gone Forever?
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Losing Your Security Deposit For Subletting?
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Can I Trust Urban Pioneer To Pay Back My Deposit?
- Landlord Tenant News: April 24 to April 30, 2010
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Does My Landlord Owe Me Interest For My Security Deposit?
- Hey, Landlord, Show Me Your Credit Report
- Tenant Troubles: My Landlord Says He's Bankrupt, So How Do I Get My Deposit Back?
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Wrongfully Evicted And *Still* Can't Get My Deposit Back
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Sue For Security Deposit Or SOL?
- Grand Theft Security Deposit Redux
- Grand Theft Security Deposit
Tenant Buyouts
Tenant Law
- Tenant Troubles: How Do I Get My Former Landlord’s Dead Hand Off Me?
- Tenant Troubles: Can Someone Be A Subtenant If They Aren’t Paying Rent?
- Tenant Troubles: My Erratic Landlord Is Asking For An Illegal Rent Increase
- Tenant Troubles: Can I Have My Living Situation “Both Ways”?
- Tenant Troubles: Can I Refuse To Sign A Lease?
- Tenant Troubles: My Landlord Died, Am I About To Lose My Apartment?
- Tenant Troubles: How Much Do I Have To Help The Realtor Who Wants To Evict Me?
- Tenant Troubles: When Can My Landlord Ask For My Annual Rent Increase?
- Tenant Troubles: Will The Board Of Supes' Soft-Story Retrofit Requirement End Up Costing Me A Bundle?
- I Think We Have A Squatter In Our Garage
- Do I Have To Subsidize My Landlord's Improvements On Another Building?
- Tenant Troubles: I Think I Have An Illegal Clause In My Lease
- Tenant Troubles: Do I Risk Losing My Apartment If I Take An Out Of Town Temporary Job?
- Tenant Troubles: My Boyfriend Moved Out, And My Rent Went Up
- Tenant Troubles: Does My Landlord Have To Fix My Broken Dishwasher?
- If Our Roommate Moves Out, Can Our Landlord Jack Up Our Rent?
- Tenant Troubles: Can My Landlord Evict Me For Getting Pregnant?
- Tenant Troubles: My Landlord's Selling My Building, And Now I Have To Fill Out A Bunch Of Forms?
- Can My Landlord "Bank" My Annual Rent Increases?
- Tenant Troubles: My New Landlord Wants To Jack Up My Rent For "Operating And Maintenance Expenses Passthrough"
- Tenant Troubles: A Rent Increase Question Puts The "Lord" In Landlord
- On Valentine's Day, Join CJJC to Dump the Banks!
- Tenant Troubles: Is My Rent Being Raised In Retaliation For My Repair Complaints (And Is That Legal?)
- Tenant Troubles: My Landlord Went Through My Closet
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Can I Break My Lease Due To My Insane Landlord And High Cats?
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Does A Mistake In My Lease Give Me Free Rent?
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Landlord Wants To Move His Office In With His Tenants
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: There's A Mouse In My (Boarding) House
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: My Landlord Said I Didn't Have To Pay Rent, But Now She Wants It
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: What Are My Rights If My Building's Not Rent Controlled?
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: My Building's Being Sold, Do I Have To Get Out?
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Why Is My New Management Company Asking Me So Many Questions?
- Urge Your Assemblymember to Support AB 934!
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: My Landlord Isn't Depositing My Rent Checks, Should I Worry?
- Tenant Troubles: The Most Important Email You'll Send This Year
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: My Landlord's Jacking My Rent Way Up After I Complained About Maintenance
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: How Can I Buy Property In SF And Not Burn In Hell?
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: How Do I Get Reimbursed For Utility Overages That Aren't My Fault?
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: How To Help Dave Help You
- Landlord Tenant News: February 26 to March 4, 2011
- Landlord Tenant News: February 19 to February 25, 2011
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Why Do You Assume All Landlords Are Rich?
- Landlord Tenant News: February 12 to February 18, 2011
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: If I'm Rich, Am I Still Protected By Rent Control?
- Landlord Tenant News: February 5 to February 11, 2011
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Can I Get Evicted For Adding A Lock To My Closet?
- Landlord Tenant News: January 29 to February 4, 2011
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: When It's Time To Hire A Private Eye To Go After Your Landlord
- Landlord Tenant News: January 22 to January 28, 2011
- Landlord Tenant News: January 15 to January 21, 2011
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: My Landlord Wants Me To Move Out So He Can Sell My Apartment
- Landlord Tenant News: January 8 to January 14, 2011
- Landlord Tenant News: January 1 to January 7, 2011
- Landlord Tenant News: December 18 to December 24, 2010
- Landlord Tenant News: December 11 to December 17, 2010
- Landlord Tenant News: December 4 to December 10, 2010
- Landlord Tenant News: November 27 to December 3, 2010
- Landlord Tenant News: November 20 to November 26, 2010
- Landlord Tenant News: November 13 to November 19, 2010
- Landlord Tenant News: November 6 to November 12, 2010
- Landlord Tenant News: October 30 to November 5, 2010
- Landlord Tenant News: October 23 to October 29, 2010
- Tenant Troubles: Why You Should Not Sublet To Texans
- Tenant Troubles: District 8 Tenants, Your Only Candidate for Supervisor is Rafael Mandelman
- Foreclosure: Banks Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Obey the Law
- Landlord Tenant News: October 2 to October 8, 2010
- Tenant Troubles: Does My Landlord Get To Ask About My Pot Plants?
- Landlord Tenant News: September 25 to October 1, 2010
- Tenant Troubles: Your Landlord Is Lying To You, Why Are You Lying FOR Him?
- Tenant Troubles: Management Company Only Pretends We Have A Resident Manager
- Landlord Tenant News: September 11 to September 17, 2010
- Landlord Tenant News: September 4 to September 10, 2010
- Landlord Tenant News: August 28 to September 3, 2010
- Landlord Tenant News: August 21 to August 27, 2010
- Landlord Tenant News: August 14 to August 20, 2010
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: A Lease With An "Introductory Rate"?
- Landlord Tenant News: August 7 to August 13, 2010
- Landlord Tenant News: July 31 to August 6, 2010
- Landlord Tenant News: July 24 to July 30, 2010
- Landlord Tenant News: July 17 to July 23, 2010
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Toilet Traumas
- Landlord Tenant News: July 10 to July 16, 2010
- Landlord Tenant News: July 3 to July 9, 2010
- Tenant Troubles: Can My Landlord Search My Apartment For Pot?
- Landlord Tenant News: June 26 to July 2, 2010
- Landlord Tenant News: June 19 to June 25, 2010
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Why An Absentee Master Tenant Is A Bad Idea
- Landlord Tenant News: June 12 to June 18, 2010
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: My Building Manager Says I'm Denying Access To My Apt., But I'm Not!
- Landlord Tenant News: June 5 to June 11, 2010
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Locked Out Of The Laundry Room
- Landlord Tenant News: May 29 to June 4, 2010
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: What Constitutes "Decrease In Services"?
- Tenants, Don't Hire a Landlord Lawyer!
- Landlord Tenant News: May 22 to May 28, 2010
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Is My Building's High Water Bill My Problem?
- Landlord Tenant News: May 15 to May 21, 2010
- Landlord Tenant News: May 8, 2010 to May 14, 2010
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: My Building's For Sale, Should I Worry?
- Landlord Crybabies Forced To Ellis Because Landlording Became So Unpleasant
- Landlord Tenant News: May 1 to May 7, 2010
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Is My Landlord Trying To Evict Me For Smoking?
- Landlord Tenant News: April 17 to April 23, 2010
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Why Can't We All Just Get Along?
- Landlord Tenant News: April 10, 2010 to April 16, 2010
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Smoky The Guest
- Landlord Tenant News: April 3, 2010 to April 9, 2010
- Tenant in San Francisco: What's Wrong with Working in a Bookstore?
- Landlord Tenant News: March 20 to March 26, 2010
- Landlord Tenant News: March 13 to March 19, 2010
- Landlord Tenant News: March 6 to March 12, 2010
- Poodle In The Microwave: Three Common Tenant Misconceptions
- Landlord Tenant News: February 27 to March 5, 2010
- Landlord Tenant News: February 20 to February 26, 2010
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Sorry, CitiApartments, "Routine Inspections" Are Illegal
- Landlord Tenant News: January 23 to January 29, 2010
- Landlord Tenant News: January 16 to January 22, 2010
- Landlord Tenant News: January 9 to January 15, 2010
- SF Appeal Tenant Troubles: Rents Are Dropping, Can I Renegotiate?
- Happy New Year, For Tenants Nothing's Changed!
- Landlord Tenant News: January 1 to January 8, 2010
- San Francisco Bay Guardian: Tenant Torment
- Tenants, Thugs and CDOs
- Troll in the Basement
- Even Dracula Had to Have an Invite Before He Could Enter
- They Don't Call Em Landlords for Nothing
Unlawful Detainer