Some Useful Landlady Info

[hrj]

Spent part of my lunch hour wandering around in Oakland's rent adjustment board (aka, rent control) website. They have some handy-dandy tools there, like a spreadsheet that can calculate your allowable rent increase for properties that haven't had increases for multiple years and other justifications for increases above the allowed % for this year. But they also have a list of properties exempt from the rent control program, including "2 or 3 units on a single assessor's parcel when one of the units is occupied as the owner's principal residence". So what it comes down to is that while I might find it useful to use their other tools to calculate a reasonable rent increase, I'm not legally restricted by the ordinance. I'm still likely to end up only slightly above "pussycat" on the Evil Landlady scale -- although I'm sure it won't feel like that on the other end.