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EVICTION WORKSHOP FOR LANDLORDS - Wednesday, August 4, 2010, Rent Board Office 2125 Milvia St., 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. This workshop will cover the eviction process as it relates to the Berkeley Rent Control Ordinance as well as touching on State Law issues. For more information, please call (510) 981-7368. [more...]
RENT STABILIZATION BOARD MEETING DATE - The next regular meeting of the Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board is scheduled for Monday, August 16, 2010, at 7:00 p.m. The meeting location is the City Council Chambers, Maudelle Shirek Building, 2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, 2nd Floor, Berkeley, California, 94704. [more...]
FREE SATURDAY COUNSELING
for Landlords and Tenants at
the Berkeley Central Library - Next Session: Saturday, August 21, 2010. In addition to their regular Rent Stabilization Board office hours Monday through Friday, Housing Counselors from the Berkeley Rent Board offer free, one-on-one counseling sessions at the Berkeley Main Library one Saturday per month. Counselors assist both tenants and landlords by answering questions on housing topics, including security deposits, rent control, evictions and unpaid rent. For more information, please contact Jacquelyn Morgan at the Berkeley Rent Board, (510) 981-4917. [more...]
FY 2010-2011 REGISTRATION INFORMATION - REGISTRATION FEES WERE DUE THURSDAY, JULY 1, 2010. [more...]
TENANT ELIGIBILITY FOR $4.00 REGISTRATION FEE PASS-THROUGH REIMBURSEMENT
2010 - The Rent Stabilization Board approved Resolution 10-05 which authorized landlords to pass through a portion of this year’s fee for tenancies that commenced prior to January 1, 1999. Landlords may pass through $4.00 per month for 12 consecutive months after they pay their 2010-2011 registration fee and provide their tenants and the Rent Board at least thirty days’ prior written notice of the increase. [more...]
MONEY FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY (ME2) - Federal stimulus funding is available for whole-house energy retrofit programs. The City of Berkeley will be offering cash incentives to increase the energy efficiency of your home, apartment building or business. Funding is provided by the US Dept. of Energy and is available for all types of buildings and income levels! Energy retrofits help you save money, improve building comfort, safety and durability as well as reduce your carbon footprint! [more...]
RESEARCH REPORTS AVAILABLE ON-LINE - 2009 BERKELEY TENANTS SURVEY RESULTS and our ECONOMIC STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF RENT STABILIZATION AND VACANCY DECONTROL IN BERKELEY are available on our new Research Reports page. [more...]
QUARTERLY MEDIAN AND VACANCY REGISTRATION REPORTS - Quarterly median and vacancy registration summaries to the Rent Board Executive Director covering periods from the 1st Quarter 2002 through the current quarter are now available through the Research Reports page. [more...]
SECURITY DEPOSIT INTEREST INFORMATION and CALCULATOR - Federal interest rate for July 2010 move-out is 0.4%. Berkeley interest rate for July 2010 move-out is 0.5%. [more...]
LANDLORDS: AN IMPORTANT REMINDER - ANNUAL SECURITY DEPOSIT INTEREST REFUNDS WERE TO BE PAID BY JANUARY 10 - Attention: If the December interest refund payment is not made by January 10th, the tenant may recover interest at the rate of 10% by notifying the landlord in writing that the tenant intends to deduct the interest from a future rent payment. See Board Regulation 704. [more...]
RENT STABILIZATION BOARD
PUBLIC NOTICE - 2010 ANNUAL GENERAL ADJUSTMENT ADOPTED - At its regular meeting on October 19, 2009, the Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board adopted the Annual General Adjustment (AGA) Order for Year 2010 which will allow eligible landlords to increase the 2009 permanent rent ceilings by 0.1%. The 2010 AGA of 0.1% represents 65% of the increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for All Urban Consumers in the Bay Area during the 2008 fiscal year, which was 0.266 % as posted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in July 2009. The 65% of CPI formula was approved by the voters in the November 2004 general municipal election. [more...]
CHECK RENTAL UNIT STATUS AND RENT CEILING - Go to the Rent Ceiling Search page. Our apologies, but this page is still under the old City of Berkeley web site style so it does not carry the look and feel of the new site. Functionality should remain the same. Embedded hyperlinks and links in the side-bar and top menus may not work as expected so please use your browser's "back" button to return to the new web site when finished. [more...]