Bay Area Landlord Lawyers

In California's Bay Area, the rental real estate market is highly regulated, and landlords need to be careful, whether they're planning condo conversions or just need to evict a problem tenant. If you need legal advice concerning any aspect of apartment rentals, capital improvements, or structuring your business to take better advantage of market opportunities, contact the San Francisco landlord attorneys at Bradshaw & Associates.

Our goal is to help you maximize your return on your rental properties. In the Rent Board cities of San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley, we can help landlords formulate petitions for capital improvement pass-throughs, decrease in services, or permits for rehab or conversion. Our experience with making the case for property management companies, landlords, and single-building owners alike can help keep your business profitable and avoid litigation risk.

Leveraging the Rights and Interests of Landlords

Among the issues our San Francisco Rent Board practitioners can help you with include:

• Unlawful detainer or eviction proceedings against nonpaying or noncompliant tenants
• Defense of tenants' claims of constructive eviction, wrongful eviction, habitability problems, or breach of lease conditions
• Costa-Hawkins or Section 1.21 rent increase petitions
• Section 6.14 petitions concerning tenants who were not named on the original lease
• Ellis Act evictions and condo conversions
• Defense of housing discrimination claims

Our Experience before Bay Area Rent Boards

Our thorough familiarity with the substance and procedures of the Rent Boards in San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley will help ensure that your action or response to problem tenants or properties will be correct the first time. At Bradshaw & Associates, we provide full-spectrum legal services to rental property owners, management companies, and anyone else engaged in the rental property business. We not only help you enforce your landlord rights, we can advise you about drafting leases, structuring your business to minimize liability and risk, and representing you in court on any real estate issue.

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Contact Bradshaw & Associates Today

For a free consultation about your unlawful detainer, Rent Board, or other real property litigation situation, contact a San Francisco landlord attorney at Bradshaw & Associates.