“Bad facts make bad law”, they say, and the recent case of Robbins v. Davi, heard by California’s Second Appellate District Court of Appeal, drives that point home for real estate licensees. Did I say the facts were bad? Try this: Real estate broker and attorney, Lance Robbins, both owned and managed numerous “slumlord” apartments in […]
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REAL ESTATE LICENSE CAN BE EASILY LOST
December 13th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Robbins v. Davi · California's Court of Appeals · Slumlord · Landlords · DRE · Bob Hunt · California Department of Real Estate · Landlord Liability
TIME IS RUNNING OUT FOR FIRST-TIME HOME BUYER TAX CREDIT
September 14th, 2009 · No Comments
The clock is ticking. Time is running out. To be exact, time runs out midnight, November 30, 2009. Many readers will know what I am referring to. Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, November 30 is the last day for a home purchased by a first-time home buyer to qualify for the […]
Tags: Bob Hunt · Home Buyer Tax Credit · Legislation · Landlord Liability · The Market
TENANTS IN FORECLOSED PROPERTIES WILL BENEFIT FROM NEW FEDERAL LAW
May 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment
On May 20 President Obama signed into law the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act. Understandably, primary attention has been paid to the Act’s provisions that are designed to help distressed homeowners avoid foreclosure. But the Act has other beneficiaries as well. One group that will receive particular assistance from this new law is those […]
Tags: Notice of Foreclosure · Bob Hunt · Landlord Liability · The Market · Foreclosures
MUST LANDLORDS PREVENT THE PRESENCE OF SECONDHAND SMOKE?
May 11th, 2009 · No Comments
We continue to examine the ever-increasing and novel ways in which our legal system makes it difficult to be a landlord. Today’s example involves the issue of secondhand smoke and the possible duty of a landlord to prevent tenants and others from being harmed by its presence on the premises.
Tags: Landlords · Bob Hunt · Landlord Liability
RENT FOR UNPERMITTED UNITS MAY BE UNCOLLECTIBLE
May 4th, 2009 · No Comments
One of the things we can count on is that each season brings us court decisions that diminish the appeal of being a landlord. Today’s lesson comes from California’s Fourth District Court of Appeal in the case of Espinoza v. Calva.
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In short the decision says this:Â “if you are renting out a unit that has […]
Tags: Bob Hunt · Landlord Liability · The Market
LANDLORD MAY BE LIABLE FOR TENANT WHO DOES WORK ON THE PREMISES
December 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
Landlords who pay attention to such things know that they may incur a wide range of liabilities for the behavior of their tenants, their tenants’ guests, their tenants’ dogs, etc. Moreover, as lawsuits go on and on and court opinions are rendered, the trend continually seems to be that this range of liability is expanded, […]
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