Comments on: Three Tenant Troubles: Roommate Rousting, Co-Tenant Challenges, Condo Craziness

By: njudah

njudah — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 17:51:00 +0000

this confirms my biggest fear about another big quake. that, and the ads in the non English real estate ads about Costa Hawkins and other workshops on “how to evict rent controlled tenants” i keep seeing..

By: Dave Crow

Dave Crow — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 17:11:00 +0000

I want to be very clear on this. Units built after 1979 are not covered by the Rent Ordinance at all–no caps on rent, no just cause eviction.

Hypothetically, if the big earthquake hits and all the buildings built before1979 were destroyed, rent control would cease to exist in SF.

Of course that won’t be true, especially given the shoddy construction on most of these ugly-new-piece-of-shit lofts or whatever the hell they call them.

By: cedichou

cedichou — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 07:40:00 +0000

any property built after 1979 is not protected by rent control. I think you still need just cause to evict, but since the landlord can always increase the rent to squeeze you out, it’s kinda moot.

Also, condos have different rules regarding rent control.

But it does not affect exisiting per-1979 properties, so current protections overall are not eroded by having there new units.

By: njudah

njudah — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 23:55:00 +0000

I have a question (sort of ) related to this article – as more and more condos are built (and presumably some might end up being rented out, as is often the case in most condo buildings), and as these new rental units (NEMA et al) come on line, does this mean that tenant protections overall are going to be eroded, since they won’t be covered by SF’s rent laws?