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Apartment Ass'n of Greater Los Angeles v. Santa Monica Rent Control Board, 24 Cal. App. 4th 1730 (1994)

Citation
Apartment Ass'n of Greater Los Angeles v. Santa Monica Rent Control Board, 24 Cal. App. 4th 1730 (1994)
Parent Document
Apartment Ass'n of Greater Los Angeles v. Santa Monica Rent Control Board, 24 Cal. App. 4th 1730 (1994)
Jurisdiction
California (state)
Effective Date
1994-05-19

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pre-rent-control owners to adjust their base date rents upward to base date market levels. That, however, would be a mischaracterization of the RCL. Pre-rent-control owners are given an opportunity to challenge in very limited ways the presumption that rents on a given date were providing the landlord with a just and reasonable return on their investment. As noted, the RCL regulates rents for the purpose of avoiding unreasonable increases while providing landlords with a fair return. Regulations Nos. 4100-4111 establish the “maintenance of net operating income” formula for determining whether a landlord is entitled to a rent increase. Those regulations have been found to establish “essentially a return on investment standard.” (Baker v. City of Santa Monica