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Real Estate Property Management
Discover the legal aspects of residential and commercial landlord-tenant relationships.
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Recent updates to the course e-book
The amount of security deposit residential landlords may charge have changed in 2024.
Read the new restrictions on residential security deposits.
06/25: The 2025 rules for buyer representation and fee-splitting avoidance are currently being edited into this e-book.
09/25: Updated that the three-day notice to pay rent or quit excludes weekends and court holidays.
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Form-of-the-Week: Termination of Lease & Surrender Agreement and Notice of Temporary Displacement — Forms 587 and 588
A property manager or landlord uses RPI Form 587 to mutually terminate a lease agreement and RPI Form 588 to notify a tenant of a temporary displacement due to invasive repairs or fumigation work that requires them to temporarily move out.
May a landlord maintain an unlawful detainer (UD) action against a month-to-month tenant who remains in possession following expiration of a notice of intent to vacate when the unit is subject to a rent control ordinance?
Roxbury Lane LP, v. Benjamin Harris
DRE Hot Seat: Failure to disburse trust funds to the owner of funds
This article is part of an ongoing series covering violations of real estate law. Here, the Department of Real Estate (DRE) revoked the real estate license of a broker acting as a property manager who collected trust funds on behalf of landlords they represented and failed to disburse the trust funds to the landlords as required.
May a landlord maintain an unlawful detainer (UD) action against a tenant who temporarily leaves the property while an unnamed occupant continues in possession?
Sleep E-Z LLC., v. Lopez
Form-of-the-Week: Option and Exercise of Option to Renew/Extend a Lease — Forms 565 and 566
A landlord uses RPI Form 565 to extend or renew a lease and a tenant uses RPI Form 566 to request the lease extension or renewal.
Manager’s Trust Account Supervision and Accounting
Covers: The property manager’s ongoing duty to account to the landlord and maintain accurate records of all deposits, receipts, disbursements and expenditures; Contents of the property manager’s statement of accounting to the landlord; Discrepancies in trust fund accounting resolved against the property manager and in favor of the landlord.