Reasons for a Just Cause Eviction – Santa Rosa Property Management Education

The most challenging and problematic aspect of the Santa Rosa’s entire rent control discussion is its corollary known as “Just Cause Eviction.” A more appropriate name for this process is actually “Good Reason for Notice to Vacate.” The reasoning behind Just Cause Eviction presumes that, as a landlord, you must have a specific and allowable reason for why you’d require a tenant to leave. It’s a protection put into place so that a landlord cannot easily remove a tenant who is living in a rent controlled property. Imagine that, after living in a rent-controlled unit for 10 years, that tenant’s rent might conceivably be 40 percent or more below market rent. Just cause eviction protects tenants from landlords who might try to remove them, in order to “reset” the rent to market value for a new tenant. The complication is that Just Cause Eviction has a more...

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