All Forum Posts by: Susan O.

There are tenant rights groups starting in Long Beach and moving to huntington, santa ana, seal beach, fountain valley etc. They want to bring more govenrment red tape on how housing providers and investors do business and want to create a tenant welfare system charging huge fees and price caps on rents.

If you're alandlord or investor in Lon Beach please call the city council and get the word out.... the city council did a vote under the radar and behind closed doors. They passed Tenant Relocation Fees of $4400-$6500 capping rent raise at 9.9% so if you have an old unit that's getting only $700 you will only be able to raise it $63 even if you had to do a $20,000 upgrade you are capped. Or you'll have to give the tenant $6500 cash.

So it's rent control but the city council is calling it other names like tenant relocation assistance and tenant protection.

The Tenant groups are claiming that this is just the 'foot in the door' for full blown rent control on houses apartments and condos. The tenant groups like the Democratic Socialists and Tenant Union groups are trying to come after your retirement and investments!

So this just in LONG BEACH CITY is trying to pass a

sugar coated RENT CONTROL where landlords are capped at 9.9% rent increases OR they have to pay $4500-$6500 in Tenant welfare.

They tried to do this under the radar and just pass rent

Call city council

Please immediately call and email Mayor Garcia and all council members and tell them to oppose all forms of rentcontrol aka “tenant protections” and please ask them to stop the attack on small housing providers and renters in Long Beach.

MAYOR ROBERT GARCIA
333 West Ocean Blvd, 14th Floor
Long Beach, California 90802

Crazy they want to charge landlords during tenant move outs $4500-$6500 and are capping rent raises at 9.9%

There are no city protections for small landlords or housing providers. The ones who pay property taxes and hire local workers and stimulate the local economy.

Tand the South Bay that don't make it difficult to provide housing.

This sort of tenant relocation out of the pockets of small business owners (housing providers) will affect the entire market and Long Beach economy... mainly negatively.

https://www.lbbusinessjournal.com/rental-properties-city-council-to-consider-tenant-protection-policies/

So this just in LONG BEACH CITY is trying to pass a

sugar coated RENT CONTROL where landlords are capped at 9.9% rent increases OR they have to pay $4500-$6500 in Tenant welfare.

They tried to do this under the radar and just pass rent

Call city council

Please immediately call and email Mayor Garcia and all council members and tell them to oppose all forms of rentcontrol aka “tenant protections” and please ask them to stop the attack on small housing providers and renters in Long Beach.

MAYOR ROBERT GARCIA
333 West Ocean Blvd, 14th Floor
Long Beach, California 90802
[email protected] T (562) 570-6801 F (562) 570-6538

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Crazy they want to charge landlords during tenant move outs $4500-$6500 and are capping rent raises at 9.9%

There are no city protections for small landlords or housing providers. The ones who pay property taxes and hire local workers and stimulate the local economy.

Tand the South Bay that don't make it difficult to provide housing.

This sort of tenant relocation out of the pockets of small business owners (housing providers) will affect the entire market and Long Beach economy... mainly negatively. 

Anyone have some asy forms to just give handymen that say they 

1. need their own insurance and pay their own taxes (so I don't have to fill out 1099 or whatever)

2. are not your employee but are indy contractors

3. cannot sue you for xyz if they get hurt etc

Something that would at least establish them as non-employees from get-go????

So Eliot, if they decide to pay you back what do you do?  Like can you get partial payment then remove them from the credit agency? Would you have to share it with the "rent recovery service" or do you just tell them if the debt has been paid?  I wonder how it ends or like if the tenant finally pays years down the line?

How long does it stay on their credit agency report that they haven't paid the debt back and it's in 'default'

 Love that Sam I didn't know about that

I will be doing a 1099 C I hope they don't try to retaliate on me but at least I can get htem back. They owe me $12,000 in back rent and damages.  I got a judgement from one of them and I had to spend $5k fixing it back up

Also a tenant just skipped out on me for 2 months I think I'll try the rent recovery service just to dock their credit but I doubt they'll ever pay me.

this has really bad reviews https://www.yelp.com/biz/rent-recovery-service-glendale

I asked the property manager for a short term contract.  He quickly said he would do a normal 30 day notice to break the contract either way and said that's fine and more common

Does anyone recomend a 

Rent recovery service or collections service that will go after a tenant who doesn't pay rent or skips out on the rent and leaves.

I have their social etc. and they owe me 3 months of rent about $4500 and trashed the place.  I don't have a judgement

Do you have to hire a lawyer if the tenant has already Vacated?  And can I just have a collection service go after the tenant.  there's some on google that just report tot hem

Anyoe have recommendations for getting tenant to first talk to you? Like that report ot the 3 credit agencies and send letters for you?

OR

a full service collection agency that will go after the tenant? Contingency based that you guys have used in past or recommend?

 Hey Elliot did you end up using them?  Howd it go? 

What are some examples of Collection agencies with good service?  Do you or anyone know any?  And what is the fee structure on lets say $4500 in back rent owed?  We haven't received a judgement just the tenant owed this much in back rent