Comments on: Tenant Troubles: Is It Legal For My Landlord To Change The Terms Of My Lease After 12 Years? http://sfappeal.com/2014/05/tenant-troubles-is-it-legal-for-my-landlord-to-change-the-terms-of-my-lease-after-12-years/ SF Appeal: San Francisco's Online Newspaper Sun, 06 May 2018 15:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.24 By: tom http://sfappeal.com/2014/05/tenant-troubles-is-it-legal-for-my-landlord-to-change-the-terms-of-my-lease-after-12-years/#comment-25755 Wed, 04 Jun 2014 23:16:00 +0000 http://sfappeal.com/?p=69006#comment-25755 I am trying to build an anonymous landlord review / feedback website: http://mylandlordscore.com/?r=14

It’s still in the development phase, but we are looking for feedback and user reviews. It would be great if we could get some active users from San Fran!

]]> By: You_SF http://sfappeal.com/2014/05/tenant-troubles-is-it-legal-for-my-landlord-to-change-the-terms-of-my-lease-after-12-years/#comment-25593 Mon, 19 May 2014 23:47:00 +0000 http://sfappeal.com/?p=69006#comment-25593 BTinSF, I think Dave’s response addressed both your issues: the legal and the social aspects. The law is clear on the issue. The lease renewal must not contain material changes from the original lease so in this particular situation, the tenant is not in the wrong here, rather the landlord is. As for landlords wanting to go out of business “because he just getting old to deal with the hassles”, there are legal provisions under which he can do away with the hassle and forever like selling property for example or move in the property. or when the tenant is damaging the unit etc. You’re presenting the rent ordinance as if the poor landlord is forever stuck in a rental agreement when the reality in SF -rise of eviction notices- and the law say otherwise.

The recent economic crises following the housing bubble is the perfect example that when prices get inflated beyond the reality of people’s actual living standard, sh*t is bound to hit the fan. Rent Control is one way of “controlling” this problem. I wish that landlords “just are getting old and want to move out to Texas” but unfortunately that is not what we see on the ground. The FACT is that once a landlord evicts a social worker or a teacher who pays say about a thousand dollars for his/her one bedroom, the landlord turns that same apartment for three times that price and I personally saw this happen twice in my neighborhood. I’m not even talking about what this kind of prices does to a city as a whole in terms of its fabric and communities. So let’s stop with the excuses and get to the bottom of it which is GREED.

My 2 cents

]]> By: Eric Andrew Horwitz http://sfappeal.com/2014/05/tenant-troubles-is-it-legal-for-my-landlord-to-change-the-terms-of-my-lease-after-12-years/#comment-25552 Wed, 14 May 2014 21:10:00 +0000 http://sfappeal.com/?p=69006#comment-25552 ARTICLE: AN ANALYSIS OF CHANGE-OF-TERMS PROVISIONS AS USED IN CONSUMER SERVICE CONTRACTS OF ADHESION

15 U. Miami Bus. L. Rev. 75

http://www.changeofterms.com

]]> By: Justizin http://sfappeal.com/2014/05/tenant-troubles-is-it-legal-for-my-landlord-to-change-the-terms-of-my-lease-after-12-years/#comment-25551 Wed, 14 May 2014 18:32:00 +0000 http://sfappeal.com/?p=69006#comment-25551 people become landlords because they want to make money off tenants. if they aren’t good at planning sufficiently for the future, they don’t just get to kick the tenants out, take their ball, and go home. good advice to potential landlords is: consider that you may get old and not want to do the landlord game anymore, but people will still rely on living in your building, and have a legal right to. so far, san francisco has had no trouble attracting real estate investors, and their behavior over the decades has driven into place the rules that they must play by.

]]> By: BTinSF http://sfappeal.com/2014/05/tenant-troubles-is-it-legal-for-my-landlord-to-change-the-terms-of-my-lease-after-12-years/#comment-25546 Wed, 14 May 2014 18:02:00 +0000 http://sfappeal.com/?p=69006#comment-25546 Here we have yet another example of the reason people don’t want to be landlords in San Francisco. Everything is slanted toward the tenant’s favor. If the landlord wants to go out of the business of renting his property–let’s say he is just getting too old to deal with the hassles–he will likely have to pay the tenant a sizable amount of cash in compensation. Reverse the situation and ask the tenant to compensate the landlord for leaving early and leaving the landlord with no tenant and possibly no income for a while and the lawyers come out to object.

Much has probably changed in 12 years. There are new fees landlords must pay to tenants to empty the unit. Why should the landlord not be able to ask for a new, or higher fee for early termination at lease renewal time? Suppose the landlord simply refuses to sign a new lease or even offer one? Suppose he also simply abandons a money-losing property and moves to Dallas? Stop paying the taxes and let the city have it. How long before they find a way to empty it out?

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