Real Estate & Investing

The most comprehensive — and easiest to use — guide to California residential property management available.

Every California landlord and residential property manager needs The California Landlord’s Law Book: Rights & Responsibilities. The definitive guide for over 20 years, it clearly and comprehensively covers everything you need to know about:

“This unusual book makes tax tactics actually interesting, whether you are a novice or a serious full-time investor.” –The Washington Post

“There should be a law requiring every landlord to read this great book. It simplifies the complicated, makes boring tax laws interesting, and offers landlords the major financial incentive of saving tax dollars…. On my scale of one to 10, this outstanding book rates an off-the-chart 12.”

Now published by Nolo, in Saving the Family Cottage, attorneys Stuart Hollander and David Fry explain why problems arise when a vacation home is passed on to the next generation (unequal wealth distribution among siblings and cousins being the usual culprit) and offer practical suggestions on how to address this problem. Hollander suggests how to incorporate succession planning for a vacation home into an estate plan and gives practical advice on such things as which entity is best for succession planning, how to develop a cottage schedule, what to do about an owner who fails to pay his or her assessment, whether to establish an ‘endowment,’ and how to allocate control between and within generations of owners.

Although Hollander uses the term ‘cottage,’ the principles of his book apply to any property that a family wants to retain. Written for the vacation home owner but with information that also will be useful to attorneys and financial planners, the book engages the reader with stories of cottage ‘wars’ and planning gone awry. The book makes a complex problem understandable and offers methods to help keep a second home in the family for generations.

The second edition acknowledged the addition of David S. Fry, Esq. to the book and as the successor to the author’s cottage law practice. The updated third edition is now published by Nolo and will be revised to include the latest regarding state and federal laws, including estate tax information.

Real Estate Advantages is for first-time as well as seasonedreal estate investors.It reveals the tax and legal loopholes availableand most important, how they can be used together to not only maximize yourincome–but accelerate your income from real estate investing.SharonLechter and Rich Dad’s Advisor Garrett Sutton team up for the first time todeliver practical, proven strategies and formulas–from the perspective ofsuccessful investors, CPAs and asset protection attorneys–for acheivingthe greatest leverage from real estate investing.Written ineasy-to-understand language, this book de-mystifies the legal and taxaspects of investing with easy-to-follow, real life examples. Real EstateAdvantages reveals how you can find good advisors, create steady monthlyincome, reduce your risk, pay less in taxes, make more money with yourbanker’s money and, best of all, the government helps you! –This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

About the Author
Garrett Sutton is an attorney with over 20 years experience in assisting individuals and businesses to determine the most appropriate structures to limit liability, protect their assets and advance their personal and financial goals

This is a practical, well-organized manual for how to be a good landlord and avoid some of the pitfalls of owning rental property. Sample leases and rental agreements, information about liability, discrimination, repairs, and maintenance, and how to deal with problem tenants fairly and legally are all contained in here. Maybe if more landlords read this book, more tenants would feel like they and the owner are not intrinsic adversaries. Even though we get along quite well, and have for the last 22 years, I lent my copy to my landlord–for the other tenants’ sakes! –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

This new title is a thorough and pragmatic examination of the legal issues that confront landlords of residential real property. In 17 chapters, it covers such topics as rent, discrimination, working with property managers, landlord liability, tenants, privacy rights, and security deposits. The chapters summarize the law and explain it with true-to-life illustrations. Icons are used to point out a practical tip, a question that might need a lawyer’s interpretation, or an instance in which a rent-control ordinance might apply. The book is liberally sprinkled with sample agreements, letters, and lists of specific state requirements with regard to landlord/tenant laws. Forms to help with rent applications, tenant references, security deposit itemization, and safety and maintenance updates, to name a few, appear in print at the end of the book and on an accompanying 3.5″ DOS-based computer disk. Every Landlord’s Legal Guide makes plain the important legal concepts and provides real guidance for landlords. Recommended for most public libraries.?Joan Pedzich, Harris, Beach & Wilcox, Rochester, N.Y.
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