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The Board may not increase a rent ceiling because the landlord has a reasonably foreseeable negative cash flow. (RCL, § 1805(f), (g).) It must not increase rent if the landlord has not complied substantially with applicable state and local law...
In mid-September 1999, Cobb notified Passalacqua that, effective November 1, 1999, the rent would increase to $1,500 per month, in accordance with the Costa-Hawkins Act. Passalacqua then petitioned the Rent Board for arbitration on the grounds that...
The Rent Board Regulations protect tenants from sudden, large rent increases by delaying rent increases that would otherwise be permissible. At the time the Court of Appeal decided Kavanau I, a landlord could not increase rent more than 12 percent...
Because the annual rent increase provision and catch-up provision in the lease could result in substantial rent increases, the park offered tenants whose rent was about to increase rent reductions through a program it called the Emergency Rent Stabilization...
In this proceeding, which was separate from the litigation in which they contested the validity of the rent increases, the tenants brought a class action in which they alleged, among other causes of action, that the March 1981 rent increase...
A landlord may increase the rent on any controlled rental unit for which the registration fee has been paid in accordance with the provisions of this regulation in the amount of six dollars ($6.00) per month, provided that all...
*1544Following the preemption determination, Monica increased rents at the property to reflect the levels permitted by HUD. It subsequently imposed further rent increases on the property to conform with the general adjustments permitted by Board.
annual rent increases as follows: "Resident's rent will increase on each anniversary of the
...462 [511 A.2d 1273, 1276] [where there is no provision to factor in an increase lost because of a cap on rental increases, the cap “would cause a snowball effect of losses that might not be recouped”].) 5
On this evidence the Rent Board could find that Passalacqua was an existing tenant when Cobb notified him in September 1999 that his rent would be increased effective November 1, 1999. Therefore, the CostaHawkins Act did not provide authority for...
By applying the 12 percent cap, however, the hearing examiner reduced Kavanau’s first year rent increase from $35,000 to $5,184, with the balance of the $35,000 to be implemented over eight years of annualized increases, each...
...The Rent Control Dispute In early 2013 Hirschfield notified Cohen of a rent increase to $5,300 a month, which she did not dispute. In June 2013 Hirschfield notified Cohen of another rent increase to $5,800 per month. Cohen...
...565] [approving a cap on yearly increases because the regulation at issue permitted exceptions for “extraordinary circumstances” and empowered the hearing officer to consider all “relevant factors” in determining whether a rent increase in excess of the cap was justified...
On March 7, 1983, Monica filed a petition for rent increase with Board (No. 1-0669), seeking rental increases greater than those granted by HUD in 1981. On April 7, 1983, Board permitted rents to be raised to an annual...
...On April 7, 1990, the hearing examiner issued his decision, with findings that Kavanau was entitled to a $35,000 increase under the MNOI formula. Kavanau’s rental increases were nevertheless limited by the 12 percent cap, to a total...
...is to alleviate the hardship caused by this serious housing shortage by establishing a Rent Control Board empowered to regulate rents in the City of Santa Monica so that rents will not be increased unreasonably and so that landlords will...
The tenants vigorously contested the reasonableness of the 1980 rent increase as well the March 2, 1981, $80 increase. Eventually, the tenants were successful in establishing that the rent increases were not reasonable and they obtained a judgment against Western...
...is to alleviate the hardship caused by this serious housing shortage by establishing a Rent Control Board empowered to regulate rents in the City of Santa Monica so that rents will not be increased unreasonably and so that landlords will...
...At that point, she was in need of additional income for medical expenses and for increased property costs. A rent increase was sought. Ms. Simonson argued that she was entitled to an increase in the base date rent because her...
San Francisco’s rent control ordinance, first adopted in 1979, was necessitated by what the board of supervisors perceived as a housing crisis in the City and County of San Francisco. The crisis was caused by uncontrolled rent increases which...