A new law establishes Social Security hardship as a defense for tenants facing an unlawful detainer (UD) action when rent payments are interrupted.
New law protects tenants receiving Social Security income
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Due Diligence and Disclosures
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Recent updates to the course e-book
Chapter 2: The MLS environment. The updated statutory Agency Law Disclosure
and confirmation provision went into effect the beginning of 2019. Both the
content of the form and when it is to be used have been modified. For a
thorough analysis of the new disclosure and confirmation practices, see the
January 2019 article, What you need to know about the refreshed – and mostly
improved – Agency Law Disclosure.
Chapter 32: The breaching buyer’s responsibilities. The first subhead on page
350 should read “Interest depends on property use.”
06/25: The 2025 rules for buyer representation and fee-splitting avoidance are currently being edited into this e-book.
Newly published related content
To evolve, reuse buildings as housing, now
A new law approaches the housing shortage from the intuitive angle of reducing local agency discretion — the red tape leash — for adapting vacant commercial structures for reuse as housing projects.
Residential property remediation requirements after a disaster
Tenant-occupied residential properties adversely affected by disaster are subject to new legislation placing controls on landlord operations.
The state steps up so locals get into the spirit of ADUs
Another new law is on the books to encourage ADU growth.
One-to-ten unit housing permit times reduced
A new law cuts down permit times for small housing developments.
Letter to the Editor: Why does firsttuesday report availability and ASAP delivery of the TDS by a seller broker?
Delivery of property disclosures to buyers is legislated to occur “as soon as practicable” (ASAP) on inquiry from a prospective buyer, well before a purchase agreement setting a price is entered into.
Form-of-the-Week: Landlord and Seller Representation Agreement — Forms 106 and 102
A broker employed by a landlord to market the property to tenants, screen tenants and negotiate lease terms in exchange for a fee uses a Landlord Representation Agreement — the leasing equivalent of a Seller Representation Agreement.
Newly passed law a boost for transit-oriented development
California’s legislature continues to tackle the state’s decade long housing shortage.
New law clarifies homeowner foreclosure protections provided by mortgage servicers
SB 1146 clarifies some foreclosure protections while letting mortgage servicers off the hook for others.