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The go-to survival guide for California tenants California tenants have many rights, especially those lucky enough to have rent control. But knowing and enforcing these rights can be difficult. Fortunately, California Tenants' Rights, the leading tenant guide for over 50 years, provides all the information and key forms tenants need to: find a good rental in a competitive market understand the rules regarding service and support animals deal with a problem roommate or noisy neighbor stop landlord intrusions of privacy get the landlord to make repairs or deal with mold or bed bugs fight illegal discrimination, harassment, or retaliation break a lease with minimal liability respond to a late rent or termination notice get as much of the deposit back as possible, and fight an eviction, with line-by-line instructions on completing required forms. The 24th edition includes updated information on state eviction rules and forms, local and statewide rent control ordinances, and additional anti-discrimination protections.

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"""Every renter in California should know about [California Tenants' Rights]..."" San Francisco Chronicle ""Want to break a lease? The landlord won't make needed repairs? Want to get your deposit back when you move out? These and many other questions ... are answered in detail in California Tenants' Rights."" Oakland Tribune ""First published in 1972, the guide for renters and California has been completely rewritten to reflect the current law. It consider such aspects as looking for a place and renting it, sharing a home, discrimination, tenant's right to privacy, minor repairs and maintenance, injuries on the premises, environmental hazards, crime on the premises, security deposits and last month's rent, overview of eviction and tenancy termination, the eviction lawsuit, renters' insurance, and condominium conversion. Appended are a rent control chart, printed forms, and instructions on how to use the online interactive forms. Eithne O'Leyne, Editor, ProtoView Author comment The rental housing situation in California is getting tighter and tighter, as the population grows and cities consider and the Legislature imposes state-wide controls on rent hikes and evictions. Some landlords, feeling the squeeze, cut corners in order to evade tenant rights and increase their profits. But California also has some of the most pro-tenant laws in the country. In order to take advantage of them, tenants need to know what they are and how to implement them. No other resource gives tenants the knowledge they need to protect their interests."

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Attorney J. Scott Weaver has been a San Francisco tenant and housing activist for over 40 years. He's spent the last 30 years exclusively representing San Francisco Bay Area tenants. Scott has litigated several hundred tenant cases involving eviction, wrongful eviction, and habitability issues (including mold, asbestos, and bedbugs), and has brought tenant class action lawsuits. He has taught landlord tenant law at various legal education seminars.

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