by Rick Thornton | Mar 20, 2025 | Legal Update, California, Owner Education, Property Management
AB-2801 significantly increases the documentation required to deduct costs from security deposits. Beginning in April 2025, the law mandates the use of photographic evidence to document the condition of rental units before a tenant moves in and after they move out....
by Rick Thornton | Nov 14, 2024 | Owner Education, Property Management
I was searching Netflix for an old film. I wasn’t sure if I remembered how it ended or not when I came across a movie I had not thought about in a while from 1990: Pacific Heights. In 1990, I had been in the business of property management in California for three...
by Lori Holmes | Jul 16, 2024 | Owner Education, Property Management
I thought it would be easy. Invest in a property and improve my return by managing it myself. Simple, right? Well… not exactly. It didn’t take long to realize the breadth and depth of knowledge required to manage my own property well. Overnight, I became a compliance...
by Rick Thornton | May 9, 2024 | Owner Education, Property Management
California’s Tenants Protection Act of 2019 (AB 1482), provides statewide protections for residential tenants. In June of 2023, the City of San Diego Residential Tenant Protections Ordinance (No. O-21647) went into effect, providing further local protections for San...
by Rick Thornton | Apr 11, 2024 | Owner Education, Property Management
San Diego is a unique rental market. While long-term leases are almost always the best option for investors, this is a tourist-friendly area with a lot of vacationers coming and going for a period of days, weeks, or months. Plenty of property owners are finding that...
by Rick Thornton | Feb 22, 2024 | Owner Education, Property Management
Are you familiar with the Skyscraper Index? There are some rather tall buildings in and around southern California, specifically San Diego, but we don’t have the skyscrapers that a lot of other cities have. We think there’s something interesting about what the...
