News & Insight for Property Owners Take the Cal-Prop California Landlord/Tenant Law History Quiz (2003)

Which California city enacted the first rent control law?
a. Berkeley
b. Oakland
c. Santa Monica
d. San Francisco
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Civil Code Section 1941 was passed in 1873 requiring a Landlord keep their rental property in good condition.
True or False?
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What year did California Law require rental property owners to provide tenants with information about the California sex offender database?
1998
1999
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Owners can use an income standard that fails to account for the aggregate income of persons residing together or proposing to reside together.
True or False?
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1996 was the year owners were explicitly granted the right to collect a screening fee.
True or False?
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All waters heaters should be braced, anchored and strapped since what year?
1979
1989
1999
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Rental owners were specifically given the right to terminated a tenant upon 30 days written notice in 1872. For how many years was this the law until it changed?
51
100
131
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What year was gold discovered in California?
1850
1844
1848
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Owners are responsible to install and maintain one working phone jack per unit.
True or False?
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If a person died on your property two years ago of HIV and you were selling you would have to inform the Buyer.
True or False?
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