The Rutter Group California Practice Guide: Landlord-Tenant provides guidance to landlord-tenant law, covering commercial, residential, mobile home, and floating home tenancies through every stage of the relationship from prelease negotiations to tenancy termination and eviction. This guide takes you step by step through the unlawful detainer process. It also explains the impact of bankruptcy and provides extensive treatment of governmental regulation – rent control, housing laws, discrimination statutes, and government-subsidized housing. Contents cover:

• Tenancies vs. other relationships
• Creating the tenancy
• Rental agreements
• Discrimination in renting
• Security deposits
• Warranty of habitability
• Rights and obligations during the tenancy
• Local regulations: rent control and eviction control
• Landlord-tenant premises liability
• Terminating the tenancy and related remedies
• Unlawful detainer litigation: pretrial matters
• Unlawful detainer litigation: trial, judgment, and postjudgment matters
• Bankruptcy affecting the tenancy
• Mobilehome park tenancies
• "Section 8" government-subsidized housing
• Floating home marina tenancies

Features of this publication include:

• Citations to the latest cases available, plus statutes and rules of court
• Proven strategies, tactics, and time-saving tips from experienced practitioners
• Step-by-step development of each topic and procedure, showing you what, when, where, and how to do it
• Illustrations based on actual cases