What Happens When Your Tenant Is Never Home? You have a tenant who has stopped paying rent. The required notice has expired, and you are ready to file an eviction. There is just one problem: the process server cannot get the tenant to answer the door. This situation is familiar to Orange County landlords. A…
You rent your property to a carefully screened tenant. You review the application, check the tenant’s credit and income, contact their previous landlord, and sign the lease. Months later, you discover that the person living in the property isn’t the person you thought you rented to. Maybe your tenant has moved a friend or relative…
Orange County’s maximum allowable rent increase rises to 8.7% for any increase taking effect between August 1, 2026 and July 31, 2027. That is up from 8.0%. If you own residential rental property in Orange County, this is the number that governs every rent increase you serve for the next twelve months — unless your…
For landlords in Anaheim, Santa Ana, Irvine, Huntington Beach, and the rest of Orange County, an eviction case can turn on a question that has nothing to do with whether the rent was paid: was the unit legally habitable? California law allows a tenant facing an unlawful detainer for nonpayment to raise habitability as an…
