Tenants Rights

We prosecute affirmative lawsuits against bad landlords for: wrongful eviction, harassment, retaliation, habitability, discrimination & breach of contract. We also defend residential and commercial unlawful detainer cases. We never represent landlords.

Wrongful Eviction

Your long-term rent-controlled tenancy is a valuable commodity. Wrongful eviction cases (where the tenant actually loses possession) are frequently worth over a hundred thousand dollars. The better cases settle for a quarter or even a half million dollars. Our attorneys have been representing wrongfully evicted tenants for over 16 years.

Tenants Buying Real Estate

We represent tenants and other first-time home buyers. Mr. Hurlburt holds a broker's license from the Calif. Dept. of Real Estate and enjoys helping tenants purchase their units rather than get evicted. These situations arise during TIC conversions, or when enforcing lease-option or rent-to-own agreements. Tenants in foreclosed homes should consider buying from the bank. Ideally, the tenants buy before the property goes for sale on the open market.

Foreclosure Alert

Tenants are NOT subject to automatic eviction just because the building was sold at a Trustee Sale. Unfortunately, some banks and insurance companies blatantly ignore tenants rights. Some even pretend they don't know tenants are living in their buildings. We have been successful suing banks (and sometimes even their lawyers) for such practices. We have also been successful defending unlawful detainer cases where banks are unable (or unwilling) to prove they had the right to conduct a trustee sale.