Provides an excellent opportunity to exploit the inefficiency of the market. 

Sadly, restrictive, unilateral legislation like this only incentivizes some landlords to exploit their tenants as a way of remaining solvent. 

This is my local market, and I am not surprised.I am not justifying the behavior, but as other people have stated, this is a symptom of the small landlords being exploited by our legislators by being forced to provide a service for free and then bear the expenses thereof. 

The difference between the two groups is the last group usually able to unhide/exploit hidden opportunity.

One’s listening and calibrated questioning should thus be geared toward uncovering, adapting to, and exploiting key unknown variables.

I post regularly at least a little something on my social medias that I found helpful or informative, a lot of times it's a quote with a link to the source I heard or read it from, hoping it might hit someone who needs or wants to see it.A lot of people I listen to say that you should limit your connections with anyone who is going to actively try and stand in your way or hold you back from your goals.Having formerly been a millennial far-left socialist and thus most of my friends also aligning with those views, many of my friends grew a grotesque disgust for me and try quite often to tear me down, tell me I will never succeed or come up with reasons or excuses as to why they think I am trying to exploit, enslave, manipulate, abuse people etc.

When you de-couple punishment from bad behavior, people will exploit and push the limits everytime. 

I'm not familiar with CA rent caps but I doubt a change in ownership would result in an exemption as it seems like it'd be a loophole owners could exploit to circumvent the law (i.e. sell the property to a spouse and then jack up rent). 

That said, of course, if it does come about, owners and landlords are very likely to bring it on themselves.Here in IL, we already have landlords abusing the eviction moratorium by raising rents on paying tenants to make up for the loss of income from non-paying tenants who are also exploiting the eviction moratorium.If you want to ENSURE that this type of government over-reach comes about, keep abusing your tenants.

I carry my civilian laptop with me everywhere so I can exploit the few free hours in my day while at annual Army Reserve training.