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This is an experiment. Most tenants can’t afford to pay hourly for representation. Lawyers can’t afford to be obligated to do full representation with no guarantee of payment. There are a few UD cases I’ll take because attorneys fees may be available and the tenant qualifies for low-income assistance, but for the most part tenants, like any other clients, have to pay the bills. So here’s an alternative approach, which keeps in line with how Legal Aid works. We start with a $99 special – A hard-hitting package of information that explains the unlawful detainer process in Sonoma County and …Read more »

I have met several clients recently from Santa Rosa, to Sebastopol and Monte Rio, even calls from San Francisco who really have no idea of how the eviction process works in places like Sonoma County. San Francisco, Alameda and a few other locations in the Bay Area are different. Rent control and strict local rules controlling landlord-tenant law apply. In the rest of the state. So here’s a basic guide to eviction procedures for landlords and tenants. Notice – There are several kinds of notice depending on circumstances, but notice needs to be legally sufficient. That means that a letter …Read more »

From the New York Daily News: Rosemary Shelton, 49, says she and her children are in a homeless shelter after Samantha Zangrillo (in photo), a Long Island nail salon owner, allowed raw sewage to seep into their two-bedroom Springfield Gardens flat. Shelton’s lawyer Alexander Urbelis says the two-story home also mysteriously caught fire days before an August court hearing. No criminal charges have been filed. Urbelis mocked Zangrillo’s claim that she doesn’t have the money to repair the two-family home’s boiler or pay the electric bill. He said Zangrillo’s online Web profile suggests otherwise. “Despite her repeated claims of abject …Read more »