As anticipated, there are several changes to the CA Apartment Association Forms.  The CAA Compliance Committee has created three new rental forms and revised more than a dozen existing forms and related instruction sheets. Amendments to forms followed changes in the law, members’ requests or both.

A complete list of changes appears in the Forms Change Chart.

What’s next
Forms 1.2 and 1.2-LA, as well as, the Instruction Sheets for Forms 2.0 and 2.1, will be available by Dec. 1. The remainder of the forms and instruction sheets will be available by Jan. 1. All will be accessible throughour rental forms page.
Summaries of the three new forms: 

• Form 20.0 Notice of New Owner/Agent. This form is designed to provide notice of where to pay rent and who the agent is for service of process when the property is sold or changes management. Failure to provide this information promptly can limit the owner’s ability to evict for non-payment of rent.

• Form 19.1 48 Hour Notice of Entry – Initial Inspection. This form provides the required 48-hour notice of entry prior to conducting the pre-move-out inspection requested by the tenant. This type of notice was previously included in the general notice of entry form (Form 19.0), which is now limited to 24-hour notices.

• Form 19.2 Notice that Property is For Sale and Will be shown. This form notifies the resident that during the next 120 days the property may be shown to prospective purchasers on 24 hours oral notice. The instructions provide information about the recent court decision holding that Sunday is a “business day” for the purpose of real estate open houses.

Details
A complete list of changes appears in the Forms Change Chart.
CAA has also made significant revisions toForm 21.2 Resident’s Thirty Day Notice of Termination – Domestic Violence and other Special Circumstances. The protections originally placed in the law have been extended by the Legislature in recent years to victims of elder abuse and abused dependent adults.

Effective 2014, the protections also apply to victims of human trafficking. The form, including the form name, has been revised to reflect this change. In addition, effective 2014, a tenant may provide documentation from certain qualified third parties to support the notice of termination, instead of a police report or restraining order.


For additional questions regarding forms or other property management related issues, please contact Neighborhood Property Management for all our management and investment real estate services in Fresno & Clovis.  559-270-6776 or info@neighborhoodpm.com.

Couple pieces of information that may be useful perspective as we enter the Holiday Season at the end of 2013.  

1) Zillow is reporting 207 single family rental listings currently in Fresno.  This is not meant to be an exact number but with so many of the advertising methods online being syndicated across multiple websites it is certainly becoming more accurate.

2) As we are all looking forward to 2014 and hypothesizing about where the market is going across the nation and within California, The Urban Land Institute (ULI) has just released on November 12, 2013, their Emerging Trends Report for 2014.  You can read more at this LINK and feel free to contact me should you want to discuss any impacts to your existing investments or should you be considering on making additional investments in the coming year.  Happy Holidays!  Neighborhood Property Management and Real Estate Investments is a full service property management and investment firm dedicated to assisting investors to maximize, preserve, and reposition their assets.  If you are interested in learning more please contact Franklin at 559-270-6776 or info@neighborhoodpm.com.

The need for affordable housing in Fresno is demonstrated clearly by the fact that the Fresno Housing Authority received 28,838 online applications for its Housing Choice Voucher, or Section 8, housing program.  Here is an article written by BoNhia Lee on July 23, 2013.

In the first day of registration alone, the authority received 26,852 applications, officials said. In comparison, the authority received a little more than 20,000 during a 45-day sign-up period in 2008 – the last time the waiting list opened for registration.

Original Posted July 23: The Fresno Housing Authority received more than 6,000 applications for its Housing Choice Voucher, or Section 8, housing program in the first two hours of registration Tuesday morning.

That’s impressive considering that the authority’s website became overloaded with users which kicked many offline or gave them a notice that said the website is not working.

I received 46 phone calls, voicemail messages, blog comments and emails from folks who couldn’t get through this morning. A Philadelphia woman, who is moving to Fresno, even called because she wanted to talk to someone about her eligibility.

Here’s what happened: The website was working, but only allowed a certain number of users on at one time. All others were unable to log on.

Housing authority officials said not to worry. There is no rush to apply because the waiting list is now open at all times. It will not close. There is also no first-come first-serve process as the list was handled in the past.

The authority will use a lottery system to pick names when housing vouchers for the program become available.

Here is a direct link to the Housing Voucher program application: https://fresno.apply4housing.com/