State law, including Civil Code Sections 1941-1941.1, require the landlord to provide adequate heat via a permanently installed heater/heating...

There should be no harm in serving the 998 now, and case law seems to allow you to serve successive 998s, if the original offer is not accepted.

Assuming that the fumigation is necessitated by some habitability issue, it would normally be landlord's responsibility to compensate for the...

From your description, you never surrendered possession, so it is unclear whether you legally "vacated" for purposes of 1950.5(h)..1950.5(h)...

From your description, the landlord is not following applicable law. As one treatise explains: "[2:147.3] Written notice to tenant that prior...

The statute does not define bad faith, and there is no standard definition found in case law. Some precedents seem to only require that the conduct...

Mold and other habitability violations may be pleaded whether or not a notice of violation has been issued.

1942.4 has multiple conditions, including the issuance of a notice of violation by the public officer, the expiration of the 35-day safe harbor...

Even if the 3-day notice was never properly served, since WERE served with the unlawful detainer ,you still need to timely file an appropriate...

It is hard to answer this question without getting more of the facts, and reading the stipulation, judgment, etc. However, if a (default?) ...