Government Is Taking Your Rental Property Bit by Bit

If you live in a state that over-regulates rental property owners, whatever onerous requirements you are forced to comply with likely started out as a new rule in Sacramento, the state capital of California. That’s why it’s important to pay attention to California property regulations, even if you don’t own property in the Golden State.

Case in point, a new bill circulating in the California State Legislature, known as the “Emergency Right to Purchase Act” would require rental-housing landlords, including owners of both single-family and multifamily properties, to follow new procedures before selling their property.

These include:

NOTICE TO TENANTS

• Notifying tenants of the intent to sell their property.

MANDATORY RIGHT OF REFUSAL TO NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS

• Providing a “first right of refusal” to purchase the property to a list of state-approved organizations. The purchase right would last up to 70 days from the notice, with another 10 days to respond to a rejected offer.

CRIMINAL PUNISHMENT FOR NON-COMPLIANCE

• Requiring each owner that sells a residential rental property to record a certification of compliance under penalty of perjury, and would make failure to file the certificate a punishable infraction. Under this proposed law, a non-profit organization could hold up the sale of your rental property for as long as 80 days.

This proposal comes as west coast landlords have been hit with new screening requirements, security deposit regulations, rental increase limits, the inability to remove tenants without legal cause, and eviction moratoriums.

This is all part of a very disturbing trend among West Coast States, to assert government dominion, if not full ownership, over all rental housing.

If you are interested in potentially relocating your real estate equity to a state that is NOT trying to erode your property rights, please give 1031 Capital Solutions a call today. Thank you.

SOURCE:  https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1703

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