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Zacks & Freedman, PC is pleased to announce the opening of two new office locations in the East Bay and Monterey Bay! While Zacks & Freedman, PC has been in San Francisco for more than 30 years, we have consistently provided real property leg… Read More

On December 18, 2020, San Francisco adopted Ordinance 265-20, which implements the City’s first rental unit registration ordinance. With Proposition 21 on the ballot in November of 2020, the Board of Supervisors was poised to implement vacancy cont… Read More

Prior to 2021, Homeowners’ Associations (“HOAs”) had fairly broad discretion to prohibit rentals in condominium communities. AB 3182, effective January 1, 2021, added Civil Code section 4741, which imposed limitations on this broad authority, i… Read More

The state’s COVID-19 eviction moratorium expired on September 30, 2021, for everyone in Northern California, with the exception of Alameda County. The Alameda County Eviction Moratorium protects tenants from all evictions unless they are being evic… Read More

The hefty COVID-19 eviction moratoriums have recently expired at the state level. Does this mean evictions are back to “business as usual?” Not exactly; the old rules for eviction actions, called unlawful detainers (“UDs”), have been replaced… Read More