The Appellate Division holds that a three-day pay-or-quit eviction notice is void where the mail payment option lists only a “leasing office” without the name and telephone number of a specific person, as required by Code of Civil Procedure section 1161(2).
The Appellate Division held that a surviving spouse who lived in a Santa Monica rent-controlled apartment with the original tenant was an implied at-will tenant protected by the city’s rent control charter, and that Costa-Hawkins did not preempt those local protections.
The Appellate Division of LA Superior Court affirmed judgment for a surviving spouse in an unlawful detainer action, holding she was an implied at-will tenant protected by Santa Monica rent control, and that Costa-Hawkins did not preempt the city’s 425% rent increase prohibition.
Los Angeles Appellate Division holds that noncompliance with Civil Code section 1962 is an affirmative defense for which the tenant bears the burden of proof in a residential unlawful detainer action.