All Forum Posts by: Account Closed

The upside is that since 10 is not passing, in another 12 months I will be exempt from rent as an owner-occupier of a triplex.

Well, measure Y seems to be passing, but I just got a call yesterday from my tenant's new landlord who was seeking a reference. I hear he's getting keys today.

I think having to go to a settlement hearing + possibly court later this month pushed him to get off his butt and find a new place.

The building isn't RC free, it was built in 1917 and owner-occupancy doesn't get me out of RC.

I have a No on prop 10 yard sign, bumper sticker, and am giving out pamphlets to friends. Trying to educate my friends and advising them to read the proposition for themselves. The "Yes on 10" campaign is absolute drivel with no facts, very frustrating.

@Stephen G. Alan thinks that their 25k demand is a preposterous sum. He is somewhat confident we'll win in court if we make it to court in time. The thinks their defense could try and suggest that my triplex is a four-unit, but it only has three addresses and 3 leases. He said he received an update saying their defense is going to try and prove I don't live there but I have tons of mail and proof, so I'm not worried about that. 

His main concern is that if the new law passes and we get in after Measure Y passes we won't be covered by the owner-occupier exemptions, he seems certain of that.

@Account Closed

Their rent is $900, it will be $1900-2000 after renovation. To me, right now, $15k is a lot to me. This is my first and only home.

@Stephen G. I actually reached out to Daniel Bornstein first but aside from his office being out of my way in the city, his retainer seemed quite large. I am working with Alan Horowitz located in Jack London Square.

I am the owner occupier of a triplex in Oakland. I would like to renovate one of my units, redoing the electrical (because it's painfully out of date), and redo the plumbing in that portion of the house before it becomes a problem. Because I occupy the premises I am exempt from just cause ordinances (which I think is fair).

I gave my tenants 60 days notice, and have been working with an eviction attorney.
They tried to negotiate with me, they demanded $24,000 cash-for-keys (for a 1 bedroom). I told them I'd give them 2 months free rent and extend their move-out date by 30 days. They declined, so we filed for a court date on October 2nd.

The Oakland court's are legally required to give you a court date 20 days after filing, but they are overburdened and I likely won't get a date until end of November.

As you may know, if Measure Y passes in the upcoming Oakland election, it will strip me of this right as an owner-occupier. The new law will likely take effect on November 16th, and by the time I get the court I won't have this leg to stand on. I'll have to restart eviction proceedings, and will be out two months of rent.

I wish I'd started this process during the summer, but I was dealing with massive capex and could not afford to risk it (new roof and new windows because many where broken). Ugh!

I owner occupy a triplex. At the end of 2019 I'll have lived here 2 years and the building will not be rent controlled.

One of my tenants has below market rent ($900 1br + access to the ADU for their niece), the other 1br in my building goes for $1900 with no ADU.

I'm going to offer them $5k at the end of 2018 to expedite the process. Telling them they could find a comparable 1br further East for $1500 if they look now. If they don't take it I'll just wait until I can adjust their rent to market.

Hopefully this appeals to their emotion and they decide the quick cash could help them pay off their leased car, or improve their quality of life in some way. While I'd love to offer the difference between their current rent and rent elsewhere, I don't have to offer them that because I have the leverage 12 months later anyway.

@Stephen G. what ordinance document did you get that definition of a protected tenant from?

I googled it, couldn't find that document anywhere on the RAP, or City of Oakland's website.

@Bruce Palomarez, when the keys were turned over to me one of the units was vacant, so I quickly redid some of the dated fixtures in the kitchen/bathroom (cabinets and appliances). Ripped out the old carpet and put down fake hardwood vinyl, and repainted. 

At the same time I owner-occupied the other unit, which I received access to 1 month early (60 days notice is standard).

I'm currently living in the building, and moved new tenants in downstairs (effectively doubling the rent of that unit).

Doing renovations in the space I'm living in is feeling daunting, and I need a break, so I'm just dealing with the old-everything while I recoup some $'s and wait to see what my CPA comes up with for tax season...

Honestly, outside of some stupid problems with an incompetent GC, the biggest issue for me has been the insurance company (AAA), because they decided to cancel my insurance after inspecting the property during the holidays. I wouldn't have purchased this place if I'd known the insurance companies wanted so much work to be done immediately. I intended to do progressive maintenance on a longer timeline.

They were pretty uncommunicative through this whole process, Sending me a 60 days cancellation notice saying "all 4 major systems must be updated", but every time I called them I got a different agent, and no attempts to work with me to extend my policy/not cancel so I could deal with these issues. Finally, my policy was cancelled and I was without insurance, at which point the mortgage company was saying they were going to insure me for an arm and a leg.

I finally got in touch with the agent who sold me the policy, and she reinstated my policy and is giving me more time to work through these issues.

They are asking me to get a new roof immediately, but I'm going to get another inspector to give a second opinion. Additionally they're making me upgrade the electrical from the street to be 100 amps per unit (these 1brs are small, have 60 amps, and definitely don't need 100). They also threw out the concept of making me completely replace all the water pipes in the house, and also the electrical. I did some major upgrades to electrical so that the old knob and tube fuses are gone, replaced instead with circuit breakers.