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Enjoy a lovely evening with Spectrum Community Services, Inc. next month at their Twilight Tasting event to support low-income families and seniors throughout Alameda County.

Fried Williams & Grice Conner LLP is a proud supporter of Spectrum and its work supporting the health and wellness of those in Alameda County.

We're headed back to Page Mill Winery for our annuaL event. Join us on Thurs., Sept. 21st anytime between 4:30-8:00 pm for a gorgeous night in the vineyards supporting crucial programs.
Meals on Wheels of Alameda County
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Tune in tomorrow for a webinar about fair housing laws by FWGC Partner, Steve Williams. It is imperative that property owners and landlords understand fair housing laws and know how to apply them to their ownership and management of real property.

This webinar is only available to Berkeley Property Owners Association members. To learn more and register, visit: https://shorturl.at/abAPX.

Steve Williams-Fair Housing Webinar - Berkeley Property Owners Association Fair housing laws are broad and encompass virtually all areas of real property and rental housing. It is imperative for property owners and landlords to understand fair housing laws and apply them to their ownership and management of real property. Failure to do so exposes them to discrimination cla...

We had a great time at San Francisco Apartment Association's 1st Annual Landlord Expo last week! Thank you to everyone who stopped by to check out our booth, chat with one of our attorneys, or enter our raffle!

Come and visit FWGC's booth and play some Monopoly at San Francisco Apartment Association's Landlord Expo next Thursday!

Roll the dice with our partners and associates who will be there.

Stop by our booth to get out of jail free or a chance to win a raffle prize! Learn more at https://shorturl.at/dlv12.

This June, we're back with our two-part Landlord 101 Webinar with the San Francisco Apartment Association starting on 6/15. Clifford Fried, Partner at FWGC, will provide property owners and managers with best practices around the beginning and ending of tenancy. For more info: shorturl.at/tDHJ7

Landlord 101 Webinar Part I

Join us on May 6th as FWGC Partner, Clifford Fried and Associate, Edward Lai speak with the Chinese Real Estate Association of America regarding the eviction moratorium ending and more. To sign up, visit, bit.ly/creaa421

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Webinar: When the Eviction Moratorium Ends 網上講座：「驅逐租客禁令」的結束. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Let's understand and discuss the winding down of the eviction moratorium. 一起了解和討論「驅逐租客令」的結束。

When our attorneys and staff aren't working to provide our clients with the best outcome possible, they're off participating in some of their favorite passions and activities. Angelica, one of our associates who is an avid runner participated in the Boston Marathon on April 17th and her finishing time qualified her for Boston 2024.

Congrats Angie!

The San Francisco Apartment Association is actively litigating a number of lawsuits that could positively affect property owners throughout San Francisco. These litigation matters are costly and your membership and donations to the SFAA supports the legal costs involved.

Support the SFAA's Legal Fund to help protect the rights of property owners in SF. Learn more at, https://shorturl.at/cmGOP.

Legal Fund Give Now There are a few main ways in which SFAA maintains its political relevance and trusted voice at City Hall: its community-based outreach, its unwavering legislative advocacy, and the strength of its legal fund. Our outreach and advocacy do much to build bridges with members of the Board of Supervisors...

San Francisco's declaration of COVID-19 emergency is set to expire at the end of February.

SFDPH ending COVID-19 public health emergency declaration "We are in a better place than we were three years ago."

Federal Rent Control may be just around the corner........

Biden rolls out 'Renters Bill of Rights' as lawmakers push for federal rent control laws The Biden administration on Wednesday announced new actions aimed at tackling rental affordability, which comes as some progressive lawmakers push for a national rent control plan.

San Francisco has some very steep hills.

Landlords are declining to rent out units because in many cases, it makes no economic sense to rent. San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston says the market is broken because rents aren't falling. If the marketplace of rentals is messed up, it is because our Board of Supervisors broke it!

Empty Apartments: 20,000 More Housing Units Were Vacant in 2021 Than Before Pandemic Housing vacancies jumped 52% in 2021 versus 2019, new data shows.

Eviction moratoriums are running small landlords out of business. Their properties will be purchased by non-profit organizations and large corporate landlords. Was this by design? Do our lawmakers want residential rental property to be run by non-profits and large corporations?

Many mom-and-pop landlords owed tens of thousands in back rent The eviction moratorium is now set to expire in a few months but small "mom and pop" landlords say it will take them years to recover from the economic loss.

Oakland rental property owners be aware that Oakland passed a rent registration law, which will require reporting rent and tenancy information to the Rent Adjustment Program.

Rent Registration In Oakland – Information and FAQs The official website of the City of Oakland. Find out about meetings, request City services through OAK 311, or contact the Mayor and City Council.

Antioch City Council has approved rent control.

Antioch City Council Approves Rent Stabilization Ordinance On Tuesday, the Antioch City Council approved a Rent Stabilization Ordinance which will limit the rental rate increases within the City.

There is an on-going debate on approaches to solving the housing crisis in our country. Sheltering the chronically homeless and at the same time treating substance abuse and mental illness is the issue. Can you provide one without the other? Which comes first? Here is the story of a failed housing program in the State of Utah. California should learn from the failures in other places and come up with practical solutions to housing our homeless.

The Magnolia Apartments: The new Homes for the Homeless are a “Complete Failure” According to an Inside Source - Utah Stories An inside source provides Utah Stories with a look into the reality of the Magnolia Apartments and its failure as a solution for homelessness

Alameda County continues to enforce an unconstitutional law. Despite the lingering cases of Covid-19, California is back to normal. Except if you happen to be a landlord with a tenant who is a nuisance or not paying rent. To these landlords, the Alameda County eviction moratorium is worse than Covid-19.

Supervisor Nate Miley says Alameda County's eviction moratorium is unconstitutional, a taking of private property Health improving, Valle shows up to his supe job wearing uniform from his other job

Landlords have another option for dealing with residential tenants they no longer want to rent to. Property owners have rights under the Ellis Act and the Tenant Protection Act of 2019 to go out of business and terminate tenancies. Come hear Clifford Fried explain the process for withdrawing units from the rental market.

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Not all "drive-by" ADA lawsuits are successful. They can be expensive to defend. The plaintiffs who file these lawsuit hope to settle each case for between $10,000 and $20,000. Very lucrative for plaintiffs who file hundreds of these lawsuits every year.

Case against San Mateo juice bar dismissed The hits keep on coming for Brian Whitaker, a serial filer of lawsuits against small businesses under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Remember that Rental Unit Registration begins in San Francisco for many units as early as July 1st!

San Francisco Rental Unit Registration Begins By Clifford Fried The San Francisco Housing Inventory Reporting Ordinance will require owners to report information on the current use of all residential units in the City. Starting July 1, 2022, owners of buildings with more than 10 units must register units and report information. Owners of buildi...

David Semel and Ed Lai representing at the SFAA Tradeshow.

A new San Francisco Law establishes rights for tenants to organize in a building and requires the landlord to meet and confer with the tenant organization in good faith.

New Legislation re Tenant Organizing and Tenant Associations | Rent Board The Board of Supervisors and Mayor of San Francisco recently passed legislation that gives tenants enhanced rights to organize within their buildings (informally referred to as the “Tenant Right-To-Organize legislation” or "Tenant-At-Home Ordinance"). While this new law does not amend the Rent O...

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San Francisco will soon have rental unit reporting and registration requirements. Stay tuned for more information. In the meantime, here's a blurb from the SF Rent Board about this.

New Legislation Creates A Housing Inventory And Requires Owners To Obtain a License Before Imposing Annual/Banked Rent Increases | Rent Board Ordinance No. 265-20, which became effective on January 18, 2021, requires owners of residential housing units in San Francisco to begin reporting certain information about their units to the Rent Board. The Rent Board will use this information to create and maintain a “housing inventory” of all...

The State has again extended COVID-19 nonpayment of rent eviction protections, but the restrictions are narrowing.

State passes urgency COVID-19 eviction law A bill signed into law this afternoon extends part of California’s COVID-19 eviction moratorium through June 30, but only for tenants whose applications for rental assistance have been submitted on…