Your step-by-step guide to evicting a problem tenant in California Sooner or later, nearly every residential landlord has to evict a tenant for nonpayment of rent, property damage, an illegal sublet (including Airbnb), or another violation of the lease or the law. You don’t always need to hire a lawyer, but you do need reliable information, particularly if your property is under rent control. Here, you’ll find all of the downloadable forms you need along with clear, step-by-step instructions on how to: prepare nonpayment of rent notices prepare 3-, 30-, 60-, and 90-day notices complete and serve all required eviction forms deal with tenants’ delaying tactics, and file your “unlawful detainer” complaint in court. Just filing an eviction lawsuit often prompts the tenant to leave. If it doesn’t, you’ll learn how to: handle a contested eviction suit by yourself—and know when to get professional help respond to a tenant’s defenses and claims evict a tenant who has filed for bankruptcy or is occupying property you purchased at a foreclosure sale collect unpaid rent after you win. With Downloadable Forms Get more than 30 forms, including all of the official California forms required to successfully complete an eviction, plus forms for collecting a money judgment and handling contested cases.

Your step-by-step guide to evicting a problem tenant in California Sooner or later, nearly every residential landlord has to evict a tenant for nonpayment of rent, property damage, an illegal sublet (including Airbnb), or another violation of the lease or the law. You don’t always need to hire a lawyer, but you do need reliable information, particularly if your property is under rent control. Here, you’ll find all of the downloadable forms you need along with clear, step-by-step instructions on how to: Find out how to: prepare nonpayment of rent notices prepare 3-, 30-, 60-, and 90-day notices complete and serve all required eviction forms deal with tenants’ delaying tactics, and file your “unlawful detainer” complaint in court. Just filing an eviction lawsuit often prompts the tenant to leave. If it doesn’t, you’ll learn how to: handle a contested eviction suit by yourself—and know when to get professional help respond to a tenant’s defenses and claims evict a tenant who has filed for bankruptcy or is occupying property you purchased at a foreclosure sale understand your options for collecting “Covid rent,” and collect unpaid rent after you win. With Downloadable Forms Get more than 30 forms, including all of the official California forms required to successfully complete an eviction, plus forms for collecting a money judgment and handling contested cases—available, more details inside.

Sufficiency of an eviction notice is a question of success or failure of the entire eviction process. It is not just a piece of the puzzle, it is its fundamental cornerstone. While landlords can fail elsewhere, without a proper notice they may not succeed. It is even more so in the City and County of San Francisco, a municipality with an enforcedeviction control, where the local ordinance dictates which properties and what kinds of eviction are regulated, and what is required of an eviction notice to be enforceable.Drafting a notice is the eviction's first step, and it should be done right. This book educates on how to find-or better, avoid-common mistakes made by the notice drafters. The material is equally useful in defense, helping to identify noncompliance in someone else's notice. I hope you will enjoy the book, no matter what side you are on.This volume covers general requirements for eviction notices issued for "for-fault" and "no fault" evictions, all nine "for-fault" and the first four non-fault "just causes," available under the San Francisco eviction ordinance. Next publications will address the rest of the "no fault" evictions.

This is a guide for those landlords who have purchased rental income property and need the knowledge and skills to manage a problem tenant. This book will give details on how to initiate an eviction, and how to follow through with the court process. It will also outline methods to increase the odds of winning your case. Learn preventive methods and how to develop systems to document and conduct an eviction case. If you own or manage residential income property, this book will clarify and simplify your goals, coach you, and fortify your eviction case.

Commentaries on elements necessary to consider in issuing an eviction notice in San Francisco.