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www.dca.ca.gov/legal/landlordbook/ 
CALIFORNIA TENANT HANDBOOK
CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER AFFAIRS has waded through a tangle of state regulations to produce a comprehensive and readable rental guide that's equally useful to tenants and landlords.


Helpful tenant information based on California law.
Information on evictions, leases, agreements, repairs,
rents, inspections, security deposits, evictions, mediation, courts, and more.The guide is logically divided into more than a dozen Web pages, making the information easy to digest and even easier to print for later reading.

Telephone: (800) 952-5210
California Law - The Legislative Counsel of California maintains this online copy of all 29 codes of California Law, each one searchable by keyword

 nolo.com/encyclopedia/lt_ency.html
 Law Centers > Encyclopedia > Landlords & Tenants > Landlord-Tenant Statutes >
If Nolo Press' online legal encyclopedia is among the most helpful legal resource available online for consumers, not lawyers.

The encyclopedia's Landlords & Tenants section has dozens of useful articles.
Nolo's Web guide is based on general legal principles that apply to all 50 states. Several articles and links offer state-specific information, but look elsewhere if you want state and local statutes.
San Francisco Rent Board || www.ci.sf.ca.us/rentbd/  sfgov.org/site/rentboard_index.asp
For San Francisco residents, the city's Residential Rent Stabilization & Arbitration Board offers fact sheets, general housing information and very specific references to city ordinances and resolutions affecting tenants and landlords.
25 Van Ness Ave., Suite 320, SF, CA 94102-6033 415/252-4600 Fax-back info: 252-4660 Rent Board Commission Meetings 1st & 3rd Tuesdays  Six o'clock p.m., 25 Van Ness Ave., Suite 70 (lower level).
"incredibly thorough website"  

www.dca.ca.gov/legal/landlordbook California Tenants: A Guide to Residential Tenants' and Landlords' Rights and Responsibilities/
Provided by the California Department of Consumer Affairs.

WWW.HOUSING.ORG

Housing.org is the home of Project Sentinel, a nonprofit organization serving Northern California with consumer education projects, a free mediation service for landlords and tenants and authority to investigate reports of housing discrimination. Project Sentinel has offices in Palo Alto, San Jose, Gilroy and Modesto. It produces the Rent Watch column printed in SF Chronicle and elsewhere.

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CAA Online , the California Apartment Association
SFAA.org  ||Apartment Apartment Owners's Magazine Founded in 1917, the San Francisco Apartment Association is the only Trade Association that represents the nearly 40,000 rental property owners in San Francisco.

SPOSF -  Small Property Owners Association of San Francisco, which focuses on protecting the rights of small property owners and promoting opportunities for first-time home buyers.

IREM Chapters with WebSites
Housing Industry Links

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WWW.SFTU.ORG 558 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 Fighting For Tenants Rights Since 1970 The member-supported tenants advocacy group has been at the forefront of the decades of landlord-tenant wars of  San Francisco

Tenants Rights Information Rent Control Annual Rent Increases Evictions Generally Just Causes For Eviction OMI Evictions  Ellis Evictions Eviction Threats Unlawful Detainers

Repairs Heat Security Deposits  Principal Place of Residency Landlord Harassment  Buildings For Sale  Condo + TIC Conversions  Mergers + Demolitions

hrcsf.org/  ||  links || Action Calendar
The Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco has excellent easy to understand summaries of recent changes to Landlord-Tenant Laws

Also find a very good link guide to City of SF web pages. HUD subsidy specialist

http://DIRECTORY.TENANTSUNION.ORG 
Seattle's Tenants Union's Tenant Resource Directory has closed. They suggest  the Bad Landlords or Tenant.net website to find information about tenant resources in your area