California Tenants' Handbook: Tenants' Rights (California Tenant's Rights)

For more than 20 years the definitive guide to asserting rights as a tenant, Tenants' Rights gives detailed information on California laws protecting tenants and explains how to handle disputes when they arise. It shows California tenants how protect themselves before signing a lease, deal with a landlord who refuses to make repairs, complain about illegal discrimination, make sure their security deposit is returned, fight an eviction and more.

Myron Moskovitz is a native San Franciscan who received his law degree (with honors) from the University of California in Berkeley in 1964. Since then, he has served as the Chief Attorney of the National Housing Law Project in Berkeley and Chairman of the States Commission on Housing and Community Development. Co-author of California Tenants' Rights, he has written many articles on tenants rights, and won several important cases establishing new rights for tenants. Ralph Warner is a co-founder of Nolo Press and one of the pioneers of the self-help law movement. A graduate of Princeton University and the Boalt School of Law (U.C. Berkeley), he is the author of many books and articles aimed at making our legal system more accessible and democratic.