California Landlord's Law Book, The: Rights & Responsibilities (California Landlord's Law Book : Rights and Responsibilities)

Every California landlord and residential property manager needs The California Landlord's Law Book: Rights & Responsibilities. For over 25 years, the definitive guide for landlords in the Golden State has clearly and comprehensively covered everything you need to know about:

• security deposits
  
• leases and rental agreements
  
• property managers
  
• habitability
  
• liability
  
• lead paint
  
• discrimination
  
• rent control
  
• terminations and evictions
  
• and much more
  

This edition includes up-to-date information on landlord-tenant laws, including new California requirements that landlords provide tenants with details on how and where rent is to be paid before terminating for nonpayment of rent, and new language on notice of entry and termination forms regarding tenant rights as to abandoned property. Plus you get access to a unique web page on nolo.com where you can instantly download more than 40 forms, including a lease and rental agreement, tailored to meet California law.

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David Brown practices law in the Monterey, California area, where he has represented both landlords and tenants in hundreds of court cases -- most of which he felt could have been avoided if both sides were more fully informed about landlord/tenant law. Brown, a graduate of Stanford University and the University of Santa Clara Law School, also teaches law at the Monterey College of Law and is the author of Fight Your Ticket in California, Beat Your Ticket and others.

Ralph Warner, a pioneer of the do-it-yourself law movement, founded Nolo with Ed Sherman in 1971. He began publishing do-it-yourself law books after numerous publishers rejected them. Warner holds a law degree from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley and an undergraduate degree from Princeton.

Janet Portman specializes in residential and commercial landlord/tenant law. She is the author or coauthor of Every Landlord's Legal Guide, Every Tenant's Legal Guide, Renters' Rights, Leases & Rental Agreements, The California Landlord's Law Book: Rights and Responsibilities and others. Portman received undergraduate and graduate degrees from Stanford University and a law degree from Santa Clara University. Before joining Nolo in 1994, she practiced law as a public defender.