Empowered by Governor Gavin Newsom with expanded emergency authority, the Judicial Council of California voted at its emergency meeting to suspend all unlawful detainer actions until 90 days after California’s COVID-19 State of Emergency ends or until the Judicial Council rules are amended or repealed.

Visit CAA's Action Center to send a letter to your legislator urging them oppose AB 828.This bill denies equal justice to property owners by:1) Forcing landlords to reduce rents by 25% even if a tenant cannot demonstrate a hardship or need.2) Allowing judges and the court system to set rents and change the rental agreements already in place.3) Assuming every tenant is facing a hardship related to COVID-19 and must be compensated for this hardship.4) Protecting nuisance tenants as it does not require tenants to answer an unlawful detainer complaint.5) Mandating that rental property owners demonstrate an economic hardship to collect the contracted rent.

You obviously haven't read the proposed legislation.In the event of a filling of an Unlawful Detainer and under the supervision of the court processing the eviction being able to show just cause of the tenant satisfying the conditions of the bill,  that tenant  can get the 25% reduction for 12 months.IT IS NOT ALL APARTMENT RENTS DISCOUNTED 25%!!!

@Fabian Wizenfeld Hi Fabian, the State’s Judicial Council adopted emergency rules a couple of weeks ago that state that courts won’t hear unlawful detainer or foreclosure actions until 90 days after the Governor’ State if Emergency is lifted. 

.* Shield nuisance tenants by allowing tenants to ignore an unlawful detainer complaint.* Mandate that rental property owners demonstrate an economic hardship to collect the contracted rent.Contact your state legislators TODAY and ask them to oppose AB 828.You can find your representative(s) by clicking here: http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.govWe need to work together fighting this proposed legislation California is trying to force upon all of us.

If they are indeed still there you'll need to start an eviction immediately and obtain an unlawful detainer and Writ.

And there's only one way to legally remove a holdover tenant who refuses to voluntarily vacate a property, and that's by filing an unlawful detainer lawsuit (eviction) to recover possession of the property.  

If they have an unlawful detainer judgement against them, even if they left before the sheriff came that is an eviction. 

I do have another vacancy right now to deal with though so...Governor Dummy's order:Landlords, property owners, and property managers are prohibited from serving orenforcing, or threatening to serve or enforce, any notice requiring a resident to vacate anydwelling or parcel of land occupied as a dwelling, including but not limited to an evictionnotice, notice to pay or vacate, notice of unlawful detainer, notice of termination ofrental, or notice to comply or vacate.

I've been told by my attorney that we can't even file the unlawful detainer yet and I think it's likely that the Newsome is going to extend the moratorium again.