All Forum Posts by: Cam Coplin

Ricardo, it great that you have an eviction attorney because a new Ca law AB1482 now requires very specific tenant written notification verbiage, depending on where your rental is located, before you can issue a 3 day notice. Additionally the 3 day notice deadlines have been changed to business days from calendar days. There are several other changes but your attorney, who hopefully specialized in rental evictions in the area you rental is, can follow them.

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If you have a small number of apts you can set up a separate savings account for each tenant to deposit their rent.  Obviously the account should be your signature only.  This will isolate your information from each tenant.  Then if you evict, after pay up or leave notice period is over, you can terminate that one saving account.  There by preventing them from depositing $1 to void the eviction at the last minute.  Obviously this will only work with a small number of rentals.  It works fine for me with 10 rentals.

Try Dennis P. Block & Associates in San Bernardino

Or Weisierski & Zurek.

They seem to advertize a lot in the AAOC Service Proveder Index

From AAOC magazine, law firms specializing in flat fee evictions:

Duringer Law Group in Anaheim Hills Ca

Brennan Law Firm in Arcadia Ca

Schonfeld in Fullerton CA

and 3 more others is you care to look them up.

I think you're giving them too much paper, which they'll lose after move in.  I include most of what you list separately in the lease.  Thus lease includes numbered page(s) & paragraphs for most of your items.  As an example:

Lease Agreement - they get copy after all parties initial each page, initial                                          acceptance of all addendum & sign signature pg
Lead Based Paint Disclosure - all sign form after I give them pamphlet &                                                             form is lease page.
Lead Paint Pamphlet - given at lease signing
Move In/Move Out Checklist - mine is a 5+ page unit specific Move In                                                Condition List, I  pre-fill it out before lease signing, at                                          lease signing all do a walk thru & note  exceptions. all                                        renters  initial each page  & sign signature page.  After I                                     sign it is page numbered  part of lease. They have 3 days                                    to send me exceptions in  writing to what was                                                       previously signed.
Renters Insurance Disclosure - a lease paragraph
Security Deposit and First Months Rent Receipt - a lease section
Non Standard Rental Provisions - 3 pages unit specific & part of lease
Itemized List of Common Security Deposit Deductions with General Prices -              never in lease, at move out they are charged what it cost me.
Getting your Deposit Back Information Sheet with Cleaning Instruction upon Move Out - not is lease. After they notify me they get letter referring                                    them to signed move-in condition list
Forwarding Address form (For getting their deposit back) -                                                     In my acceptance  letter of their move-out notification.

In Ca, you serve the 3 day pay or quit when the rent is LATE.  In your case its late on the 2nd, unless that is a public holiday, then you serve it the next day because that's the day its late.

In your case with a persistent late payer, I'd try to do a personal service and if that fails a nail & mail service.

Since you want it fast, join a local real estate investment club or apartment owner association to gain access to their down loadable legal forms.  One of the forms will be a lease.  You can customize it by adding conditions from a local large apartment complex lease that applies to your situation.  Alternatively contact a local investor who owns & rents units.  NOT a local realtor.

Sarah, in Orange County, certified mail is not legal service, 1st class mail is but with a 5 day delay for delivery.  A mailing receipt, cheaper than certified mail, would show a 1st class mailing.  Also "nail & mail" is also considered legal service, without the 5 day delay.

Dennis: if you cannot deduct your personal time to repair the unit, create a business ( LLC,INC,S corp,etc) to hire you to do it. Then the business bills the work & you deduct it from the SD. Unless you've a lot of this kind of activity, it probably cost effective to hire a handy man to do the repairs and deduct his bill from the security deposit.