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Joelle Kraft had a rent-controlled apartment in Santa Monica which she posted on AirBnb and rented. Her landlord terminated the lease and sued to evict her on the grounds that the AirBnb rentals of the unit were illegal under Santa Monica law. The Santa Monica rent...
There is a new way to hold title to real property in California, effective January 1, 2016. A "Revocable Transfer On Death Deed" is just what it sounds like. It is a deed recorded in the official county real estate records, which says who is going to be the owner...
Again, a contractor has been caught performing work without a valid California contractor's license, and could lose $4,669,376 in unpaid charges and be required to pay back $18,331,911. This time it's Jacobs Engineering, one of the largest and most sophisticated...
Tribeca negotiated the purchase of a portfolio of loans secured by real property, for $47 million. The contract required a $1 million deposit which would become non-refundable liquidated damages upon the waiver of contingencies. Tribeca negotiated a joint venture...
If undisclosed defects are bad enough that the buyers really don't want the property, rescission should be available and may be a better remedy than selling the property at a large loss and then waiting to see whether the loss can be collected from the sellers. In...
In the Los Angeles case of Ong v. Fire Insurance Exchange, filed on April 3, 2015, the insurance company denied a claim for fire damage, because the home had been vacant for more than 60 days. A vagrant had broken in, brought in a mattress and firewood, and...
Just because your neighbor has a survey doesn't mean it's right. Get your own survey. Until you know for sure, you don't know what your really fighting about.Even if the neighbor is correct about the boundary, you still might have a right to keep the fence where it...
The Court of Appeal has upheld a trial court's power to order a neighbor to stop violating a law, a property right, or CC&Rs, while the lawsuit is still pending. The purpose of a preliminary injunction is to preserve the status quo and not allow the problem to get...
A trial court and the court of appeal have held that property owners who allowed a neighbor to landscape, irrigate and install lighting on a driveway easement across their property, had inadvertently and unintentionally given up a permanent irrevocable license for...
First American Title Insurance Company recently won a case which highlights an important limitation of title reports and title insurance policies. First, a title report is nothing more than an offer to sell a title policy. You cannot sue a title company over something...