What is mean Oakland's Residential Arbitration Ordinance # 11758?

Question

This question consens about apartment rent in oakland.Because landlord increase my apartment rent pay in accordance Oakland's Residential Ordinance number 11758. I don't understand, why suddenly increase my rent payment and broke agreement. I need help

Answer 1

It looks like you are in a rent control area. It was difficult to figure out the standard increase, but it is 3% a year. I am suprised that is legal as it is less then the cost of living and denies hte landlord reasonable income, but so be it. Thankfully I own none (and never will since I know this) proprty in Oakland This ordinance spells out what increases are in ADDITION to the standard %. Basically it says they can charge for any repairs that were no covered by their insurance, any upgrades to the property which increase its value, any banking fees or other fees which pertain to the property.

I don't know what you mean by broken agreement. The rent can not increase more then once a year and the first increase takes place on teh 12 month annersiary.

Answer 2

The ordinance in question relates to rental rate controls in Oakland. The ordinance is quite complicated, but basically limits a landlord to one annual increase each year, justified by the landlord by increased costs or similar.

The following URL details the process of filing a dispute over a rent rate increase in Oakland.