All Forum Posts by: Jason Monroe

Hello All,

I have a friend that is looking to do an Ellis Act eviction in Culver City. Does anyone have a referral for a real estate attorney that they might be able to offer up ? 

Thanks,

Jason

@Kevin Smith, did you find a path here ? 

I have no understanding how this wouldn't result in nearly all Short Term Rentals looking to reclassify themselves as "bed and breakfast" to dodge the tax. 

If a STR host provides food wrapped in plastic or the like at check-in for the purposes of consumption during the morning does that not classify the place as bed and breakfast?

 @Aaron Breckenridge the significance here is getting chatGPT to help create the flows so it's possible to create artifacts that people can appreciate so when anyone is having a conversation with a new or old investor and the focus of the conversation is some transaction either person can create a visual for enhanced understanding. PlantUML.com re-renders the images on change so no special anything is needed it can be rendered and changed lots of times over a zoom call or coffee shop meetup

Maybe you're a techie ? 

A picture is worth a million words. You can avoid a lot of the confusion and help the people you're interviewing if you have a picture or flow chart

New investors need to understand the current tooling and how to setup workflow to avoid becoming married to their inbox and phone. 

PlantUML.com is free opensource and AND AND you can use chatGPT to express workflows in PlantUML format. There a bunch of youtube videos on the subject 

Here is one to get you started 

PROMPT

express the typical rental arbitrage process in california as a plantuml sequence

You can go to plantuml.com and cut and paste the below starting at the @ sign and have it spit something out 

@startuml
title Typical Rental Arbitrage Process in California

actor User
participant "Airbnb" as AB
participant "Short-term rental platform" as STR
participant "Real estate agent" as RE

User -> AB: Search for short-term rentals in California
AB -> STR: Book short-term rental
STR -> RE: Negotiate rental price with owner
RE -> User: Provide rental agreement
User -> AB: Check in to short-term rental
AB -> User: Collect payment
User -> STR: Provide feedback on short-term rental
STR -> RE: Provide feedback on short-term rental
RE -> User: Provide refund if necessary
@enduml

@Eric Don if you use new technology to draw pictures for people it will accelerate your learning and allow you to gain help faster where people can appreciate your vision so they can figure out if they can help you.

Million Dollars worth of game. You're welcome

maybe you don't understand 

Oakland housing so far as I know. Oakland California doesn't maintain an official list of units. 

instead they push people to affordablehousing.com I have units that are nice but like I said in the post the area they are located in isn't the nicest. 

because of this I have to do more active marketing for the units. 

I am trying to finish other people who might have a similar situation who advertise on affordablehousing.com to see what their experience is. 

Do you use affordablehousing.com ? 

I have two properties in the zip code 94603. The places I have my holdings are a "C" area. The units show well once applicants see them but the area isn't searched much.

I have needed to use a flow send invitations to view my unit
where I login to affordablehousing.com and then select a filter and select "oakland" and then select the appropriate bedroom count and people that I have never contacted. Then I have to send messages one by one to people that meet the filter criteria as the "bulk" never worked for me. 

I was curious to know for those other people who might have holdings in Oakland where your highest and best tenant is a voucher tenant how do you advertise to those people if the rental units aren't in highly desirable areas? 

I had to do an eviction during covid it is exceedingly difficult to get evictions at present. There must be a health and safety risk 

I have used 

ALAN J. HORWITZ

ATTORNEY AT LAW
510 Third StreetSuite 101Oakland, CA 94607

(510) 839-2074

What ended up happening to this ?