Charging for garage fee to a tenant in rent controlled LA

Charging for garage fee to a tenant in rent controlled LA

Fresno, CA · Member since 2015 · 552 posts · 181 votes

In a rent controlled area like LA could you charge a garage or parking fee later.  

They've lease for 5 years with no fee.  But we did not ever agree to rent them the garage which they took possession of a few years without knowing.

This would be for a garage rental not for the primary house.  It's on aduplex in rent controlled los angeles city.

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Escrow Officer · Temecula, Ca. · Member since 2016 · 418 posts · 152 votes
7y

Including the monthly and yearly surcharges?

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  • Escrow Officer · Temecula, Ca. · Member since 2016 · 418 posts · 152 votes
    7y

    Are you taking advantage of rental increases and surcharges? Maybe you can offset it with that?

  • Escrow Officer · Temecula, Ca. · Member since 2016 · 418 posts · 152 votes
    7y

    https://hcidla.lacity.org/system/files_force/documents/Allowable%20Rent%20Increases_English.pdf?download=1

  • Fresno, CA · Member since 2015 · 552 posts · 181 votes
    7y

    Well I'm currently not charging for the garage and now i want to start charging a fee for the garage

    I raise rent by the limit each year

  • Escrow Officer · Temecula, Ca. · Member since 2016 · 418 posts · 152 votes
    7y

    Including the monthly and yearly surcharges?

  • Rental Property Investor · Member since 2018 · 26 posts · 9 votes
    7y

    i would remove them from the garage and thwn list the garage for rent and then notify them it is available for rent. make sure it is not in lease or clearly states lease does not include garage. is it multifamily? if single family gonna be real hard to prove to judge unless it specifically states that. but im on the other coast so laws might be completley different out there. if you got a lawyer. probably the best phone call slash fee you could make.

  • Fresno, CA · Member since 2015 · 552 posts · 181 votes
    7y
    Originally posted by @Pete Reed:

    i would remove them from the garage and thwn list the garage for rent and then notify them it is available for rent. make sure it is not in lease or clearly states lease does not include garage. is it multifamily? if single family gonna be real hard to prove to judge unless it specifically states that. but im on the other coast so laws might be completley different out there. if you got a lawyer. probably the best phone call slash fee you could make.

     I think i'll do this because they originally were not allowed to have the garage

    The problem is it's a duplex with two houses on alot and this is an attached garage

    I hope that won't give an issue with LAHD RSO they're strict down in LA too 

    This tenant is the worst.  Always has kids in and out of jail terrorizing the neighbors and breaking windows, etc over and over breaking things.  There's two houses on one lot.  It's night and day.  One house is paying $1500 a month and they never break things and keep house nice.  This other house on the same lot has all sorts of issues and they're paying $535.45 a month it's so unfair. And they even got caught stealing bikes in the neighbors and I couldn't evict them.  LAHD is evil

  • Fresno, CA · Member since 2015 · 552 posts · 181 votes
    7y

    A bunch of gang bangers too.  He's an ex con gang banger.  Negihbors all scared.  But I can't do anything because of rent control.  Cops get called ther every other day.  So I want to at least take the garage away from them and they used to store stolen bikes in there. The cops busted the tenant for $8000 in stolen bikes all from within a mile of the house.

      I tried to evict and they said it wasn't means for eviction because it was the tenants son.  The son is back there  now home from jail

    Cops don't care either. Los Angeles is an insane city.  They protect the criminals and are hard on home owners with taxing and fees and they have rent control inspectors come by that tell you that you need to do all sorts of upgrades for the tenants who destroy the property sometimes they are in cahoots .  

    And the more the tenants break things the more the SCEP inspectors get paid thousands of doallars to do more forced inspections.  Then all the home owners taxes go up

    Vicious cycle. Los Angeles Housing is a scam big business that takes money from home owners tax payers and do-gooder citizens

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