I'm sorry you are experiencing this. It is unclear from your post whether your ex is a tenant, a guest/licensee, or a lodger (see Civil Code...

In my view, unless your lease has some very unusual language, the landlord has no right to ban invited guests, unless the guests are causing a...

I'm very sorry to hear that you and your family are experiencing this. However, if the police have declined to arrest this person, you seem to have...

Since you paid rent, you should be considered a tenant, unless it was a lodger arrangement (see Civil Code Section 1946.5). In either case, you...

Unless you were served with a pay or quit notice, and didn't pay the $ before the notice expired, the landlord would have no grounds to evict for...

Unless the courts in San Diego are somehow even more pro-tenant than our courts in San Francisco, I must respectfully disagree with the advice you...

It is pretty common to use descriptions like "the City of San Francisco," State of California," "County of Alameda," etc. There is nothing...

If you are a month-to-month tenant, the landlord normally has the right to change tenancy terms by serving proper written notice under Civil Code...

Even if the tenant's claims lack merit, you and the other defendants must (if properly served with process) timely and properly respond to the...

As a practical matter, it doesn't matter. One of the trade-offs of suing in small claims court is that the plaintiff has no right to appeal the...