San Francisco Landlord Compliance
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Rent cap · Detail
Tenant Protection Act: max 5% + regional CPI or 10% (lower) per 12 months, max 2 increases/yr; exempts housing <15 yrs old, most single-family homes not owned by corporations/REITs, and rent-controlled units. Sunsets 2030-01-01.
Deposit cap · Detail
Max 1 month's rent (since 2024-07-01, AB 12). Natural-person/LLC owners with ≤2 rental properties totalling ≤4 units may take 2 months, except from service members.
Rent increase notice · Detail
Month-to-month: 30 days' written notice if the increase (with all increases in prior 12 months) is ≤10%; 90 days if >10%. Fixed-term rent can only change per the lease.
City rules · Detail
Costa-Hawkins allows local rent control but exempts units with certificate of occupancy after 1995-02-01 and single-family homes/condos, and requires vacancy decontrol. Ordinances in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Berkeley.
Just cause · Detail
After 12 months' continuous lawful occupancy (24 if adults added), landlord may terminate only for stated at-fault or no-fault just cause; no-fault requires relocation assistance. Same exemptions as §1947.12 (new construction, some single-family).
Return deadline · Detail
Refund and itemized statement no later than 21 calendar days after the tenant vacates; landlord must photograph unit before/after (2025 amendments).
Nonpayment notice · Detail
3-day written notice to pay or quit, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and judicial holidays, before an unlawful detainer may be filed.
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View All GuidesWhen a Tenant Breaks Condo Rules in Edmonton, Is the Landlord Responsible?
An Edmonton owner opens a notice addressed to their tenant. It alleges a bylaw breach for a loud Saturday night, names a possible $500 sanction, and gives three days to respond. Can the corporation do that, will the owner end up paying, and can the lease push the cost back? Each has its own answer.
Guide
Can an Edmonton Condominium Corporation Require Tenant Approval or Registration?
An Edmonton owner signs a lease and the condo manager sends a "tenant registration package": photo ID copies, proof of income, a credit check, and a processing fee, with fob activation to follow board approval. The tenant is already paying rent. The owner has to decide whether any of this is something the corporation can actually require.
Guide
Can an Edmonton Condominium Corporation Restrict Long-Term Rentals?
An Edmonton owner is about to list a one-bedroom and finds a bylaw saying no more than 20 percent of units may be rented. A neighbour says the board will enforce it. The property manager says it can't. Alberta's Condominium Property Act backs the manager for ordinary leases, yet an Edmonton court decision shows where the protection stops.
Guide
When a Tenant Breaks HOA or Condo Rules in Tampa, Is the Landlord Responsible?
A tenant plays music too loud after a pool party, parks a second car in a visitor spot overnight, or lets a dog off-leash past the clubhouse, and the violation letter that shows up a week later has the tenant's name on it, not the owner's. Florida allows that. What it doesn't do is treat a Tampa condo and a Tampa HOA the same way once that letter turns into an actual fine, and the gap between the two has only widened since a 2024 change to the HOA statute.
Guide
Renting in an HOA or Condo in Tampa: What Move-In Rules Can the Association Require?
A tenant's car gets towed from a Tampa HOA street the first week of the lease, and the landlord's first question isn't about the tow fee. It's whether the association even had the authority to order that tow in the first place, and the answer turns on a fact most people never check: whether that particular street is actually private property the association controls, or a public road the county or city owns underneath the HOA's landscaping and signage.
Guide
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Yukon Above-Index Rent Increases and the Ban on Algorithm Rent-Setting A Whitehorse landlord who has just replaced a building's heating system finds that the rent index of 2.6% will not cover the bill. The Residential Tenancies Act offers a route for that: an application for an above-index increase of up to 3% on top of the index, for up to three years. It also closes a route some landlords may be tempted by, which is setting rent with pricing software. | Guides | Raise the rent | Oct 6, 2026 |
Yukon 2026 Rent Index Is 2.6%: What Landlords Can Charge From May 15, 2026 A Whitehorse landlord planning a rent increase for the new rent year has to work backwards from May 15. Notice has to go out at least three months before that date, and the most the landlord can ask for on a $1,500 unit is $39. That is the effect of the 2026 rent index, set at 2.6%, which the Yukon government has described as the last year the index applies in its current form. | Guides | Raise the rent | Oct 6, 2026 |
Quebec 2025 Rent Increase: The TAL's 5.9% Recommendation and How It Was Applied A Quebec tenant who opened a renewal notice in the spring of 2025 and saw a 5.9% increase was looking at the highest figure the Tribunal administratif du logement had recommended in the data it publishes back to 1988. Whether that notice was valid, and what a tenant could do about it, depended on the date it was given and on how the TAL's calculation applied to the building. | Guides | Raise the rent | Oct 6, 2026 |
Quebec's Simplified Rent Increase Method: How the TAL Now Calculates Rent Adjustments A Quebec landlord who used the TAL's calculation tool for years, entering cost line after cost line, would find a much shorter list in 2026. The method for fixing rent now rests on four criteria instead of the old set of operating-cost components, and the base figure comes from a three-year inflation average. CBC reported that the old method used 13 variables. | Guides | Raise the rent | Oct 6, 2026 |
Quebec 2026 Rent Increase: The TAL's 3.1% Base Rate and How Landlords Should Apply It A Montreal landlord with a July 1 lease renewal and a tenant paying $1,200 a month has to send the increase notice between January 1 and March 31 to be on time. For notices given in 2026, the Tribunal administratif du logement (TAL) starts from a base figure of 3.1%, a long way below the 5.9% that applied the year before. | Guides | Raise the rent | Oct 6, 2026 |
Prince Edward Island 2025 Allowable Rent Increase Was 2.3%: What It Covered and How the Rules Worked A PEI tenant who received a rent increase notice in the fall of 2024 and wants to know whether the amount was lawful is checking against one figure: 2.3%. That was the maximum annual increase a landlord could charge for 2025 without approval from the Director of Residential Tenancy, and a landlord who got approval could reach 5.3%. | Guides | Raise the rent | Oct 6, 2026 |
Prince Edward Island 2026 Allowable Rent Increase Is 2%: What Landlords Can Charge and How to Give Notice A Charlottetown landlord with a tenant paying $1,400 a month and a lease anniversary in the spring has a short calculation to make. For increases taking effect in 2026, the allowable amount is 2%, which is $28 on that rent, and anything above it needs the Director of Residential Tenancy's approval before a cent more is charged. | Guides | Raise the rent | Oct 6, 2026 |
Ontario 2026 Rent Increase Guideline Is 2.1%: What Landlords Can Charge and How to Give Notice A landlord with a tenant paying $1,800 a month and a lease anniversary coming up has one number to work from: 2.1%. For any rent increase taking effect between January 1 and December 31, 2026, that is the most an Ontario landlord can ask for without applying to the Landlord and Tenant Board, which works out to $37.80 on that rent. | Guides | Raise the rent | Oct 6, 2026 |
Washington Rent Increase Cap 2027: Maximum Increase in Any 12-Month Period Is 10% A Washington landlord expecting the state's CPI-linked rent cap formula to produce something close to last year's figure got a different answer this time. The Department of Commerce announced on July 15, 2026 that the maximum allowable rent increase for any 12-month period in calendar year 2027 is 10%, the statutory ceiling itself, because the underlying formula actually calculated higher. | Guides | Raise the rent | Oct 5, 2026 |
Tacoma Landlord Fairness Code 2026: One 180-Day Rent Increase Notice Replaces the Two-Notice System A Tacoma landlord who built a compliance calendar around the original Landlord Fairness Code Initiative, 2 separate rent-increase notices, a flat $75 late-fee ceiling, a winter eviction ban with no small-landlord carve-out, has to rebuild that calendar for 2026. Ordinance 29086 replaces the dual-notice system with a single 180-day notice, caps late fees as a percentage of rent instead of a flat dollar amount, and adds exemptions the original 2023 initiative didn't include. | Guides | Raise the rent | Oct 5, 2026 |
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