The Life and Death of American Cities - rent control. Thank you for this excellent presentation about the extreme distortion landlord/tenant rights and duties now face.
This has already impacted the local rental market availability. Rentals must now be found only through private networking, for any landlord to feel safe exposing themselves to these onerous consequences. Anyone who thought adding an ADU to their own property for the extra income, must also be suffering a great deal of buyer's remorse. I hope your excellent article gets wide distribution.
Any small rental owner knows the renovations clauses are virtually impossible to provide, since few contractors in town even bother with small project renovations. Let alone return phone calls. There is no way a small landlord can meet those project certification timeline demands.
Santamaria is a creation of SEIU, who probably gave her these detailed marching orders. Sneddon, pulling down a quarter million dollars in taxpayer compensation every year, is fully out of touch with the real world. Harmon has been obsessive from day one about "affordable housing", while she chooses to romp from one high profile public engagement to the next. And Gutierrez was brought on originally as a Mayor at the time Cathy Murillo clone- (another child of SEIU), with Oscar sitting on his hands waiting for Cathy to tell him how to vote.
This is what voters, after CVRA mandated "district elections" now call the majority wishes for all city-wide matters. Two of whom come from the very low-voter turnout specially created minority-majority districts, requiring only a few hundred votes to win their full voting seat on city council. City wide voters supported Randy Rowse, the sole consistent and sane voice on council today. The six others are now all representatives of these newly created dysfunctional Balkan states within the whole of the city.
This town is in for world of hurt. District elections has been a 100% fail. Will Monqiue Limon and Gregg Hart petition for changes in the CVRA that align with the real world? Unlikely.
*CVRA = California Voting Rights Act (a must read for all Californians)
Ah, CVRA, another scheme by the Ds to water down conservative representation…EVERYTHING IS RIGGED! passing this along from a fren…
Imagine a game of poker where one player not only gets to deal the cards but also keeps one hand tucked behind their back, just in case. Welcome to the 2020 Census, where the dealer wasn't interested in fairness, but in tilting the scales to one side. A mere error in the 2020 Census? Hardly. It was more like a carefully orchestrated scheme, veiled behind the mundane bureaucracy of data collection. The errors were so conveniently aligned with political biases that it defies the realm of mere incompetence. The Census Bureau, under the guise of neutral public service, crafted a masterpiece of distortion. The overcounts happened in the usual suspect states: Hawaii, New York, and Delaware—bastions of the Democratic machine. The undercounts? In places like Texas and Florida—states critical for Republican hopes. The civil service employees running the census, with their overwhelming support for Democratic campaigns (a stunning 90% of those who donated gave to Democrats), showed just where their loyalties lay.
The 2020 Census was not a solitary government effort. The Census Bureau collaborated with more than 55 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to count citizens and non-citizens alike. Almost all of these NGOs were left-leaning or aligned with Democratic interests. The Funders' Committee for Civic Participation (FCCP) played a significant role in mobilizing resources and support for the census. The FCCP's Census Subgroup included well-known foundations such as the Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations, and the Carnegie Corporation of New York—entities often associated with George and Alex Soros and other Democrat-aligned activists. With the Census Bureau's budget for the 2020 Census at approximately $15.6 billion, it becomes evident that a substantial portion of this funding flowed into Soros-affiliated NGOs, essentially channeling taxpayer dollars into the hands of those whose interests were clearly partisan.
Want to know why Ds want to keep the criminal aliens here in the US? They're scared to death that they'll lose even more seats in Congress.
To be clear, this isn't the Census Bureau's first rodeo with errors. But the scale and the direction of the 2020 Census errors suggest something far more sinister than bureaucratic bungling. When errors all align in the same direction, benefiting one party over another, Occam’s razor tells us we’re not looking at mere accident—we’re looking at intent. And if not outright collusion, then at least an ideological bias so deeply entrenched that it colors every element of supposedly neutral data collection. It’s time to end this masquerade of ‘error’ and call it what it is: a subversion of the democratic process.
PS. We are watching systematic destruction of the D Party, and they are assisting in their demise…”Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon
Democrats selling "election reform" over the past 20-30 years did this state no favors. But they did lock in a super-majority of government employee union supported candidates. Just as intended. And now the state budget is permanently in the red. We marched into this Big Muddy step by step. It is now our task to undo this.
We voted for "election reform" to break up the longstanding control of Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, remember? He now looks like a model for good governance, compared to what we got in exchange. This is heart breaking, really.
The past 20-30 years of "election reform" in this state need to be rescinded step by step, because it failed 100%. Along with the unsustainable government "pension reform" that was the primary motivator for the Democrat ginned up "election reform".
also AG Kamala Harris's role defeating two voter initiated pension reform ballot measures, where state finances still had a chance to be saved. But Democrats made sure this would never happened again by systematically destroying any and all political opposition.
Now we have growing public debt, massive waste fraud and abuse, and a one-party supermajority who moved in fast and locked in their dominant position. While we slept. And while the old GOP kept shooting itself in the foot with specious, ideological litmus tests.
Where we are today in California, was the result of a mutual mass extinction event.
Well said…the other big hit was the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002, which made significant reforms to US elections to “address issues” identified after the 2000 election…establishing mandatory minimum standards for states concerning election administration, including areas like provisional voting, voting information, updated voting equipment (think Dominion), statewide voter registration databases, and voter identification procedures…
Ironically, Democrats gaming elections for so long created the MAGA movement, out of the first resistance Tea Party efforts who sensed something had gone very wrong with the former two party political climate.
Democrats branding Tea Party fiscal conservatives as racists, was their first strategic error. They could cancel, but they could not cover up the seeping US debt concerns.
MAGA in turn carved RINO's out the newly defined Republican party which was now a winning and populist coalition, rather than the stuffy old boys club. The God of small favors.
The Democrats Great Replacement turned into the Great Political Realignment, that we are witnessing today. With growing numbers of independents finally taking a larger and longer view on all US priorities. We are living in interesting times.
The key issue today is Big Government nanny state vs. Limited Government personal accountability with consequences state.
Loy- Thank you for bringing this issue to the forefront. Every investor needs to understand that long term, your hard-earned assets are not safe in a progressive state. I sold my California rental property two years ago and invested in a Red State market.
We are asking ourself s when will it be too late to sell our rental property?The question is do you want to be the one who can now not sell because no one is going to buy your rental property because of all the rental laws That is what my business partner and I are now discussing.....sell and invest in another state. I think Mike may be early but better 10 years early that 1 day too late.
Paul- If it helps to know, Santa Barbara is blacklisted by previously interested investors because of the 4 named financially illiterate Council Members: Sneddon, Gutierrez, Santamaria and Harmon. Your last sentence is impactful advice: one that I’ll remember.
Rent control requires the private landlord pay the tenant. Just so the tenant can live in the landlord's property, but at a subsidized rate determined by external fiat; not the market. You can see where this is going. Rent control has failed everywhere it has been imposed.
First round was to scream 'housing crisis" 24/7 that soften up the voters. Then trot out "rent control" as a solution for the "housing crisis" Be sure to audit those initial perceptions as "rent control" unfolds over time. .
Remember who pushed this on Santa Barbara. At least two of the current city council persons may well be running for mayor since they are termed out. For those who think city council elections "outside of their own district" don't matter to them, this should be a major wake-up call.
The obligations imposed on the owners of rental property are shockingly complex. I have always compared rent control to the shoppers in a grocery store voting on what the prices should be.
Another insidious way in which you don't own your property is the levying of property taxes on a recurring basis. Name me anything else that you own that you pay taxes on every year while you own it. You may pay a onetime tax but that is it. The reason you know that you don't own the property is because wait to see what happens if you can't pay the property tax one year. In fact, what really is happening is that you are renting the property from the govt and the property tax is essentially your rent payment.
Add to that the purchase price of real estate here, the insane cost of fire insurance, property taxes, the rules on getting every minor change permitted and inspected, and it’s no wonder people flee our city and state. Freedom in places like Tennessee and other red states lures a growing number of people to flee Californistan. The weather is hard to beat however.
Thank you Loy!! Are County rules similarly costly, burdensome, ridiculous? Please inform us. Effectively it’s confiscation of private property. Owners need to know. BTW: D3 re-elected Rep Oscar Gutierrez stated on Newsmakers he supports a registry of vacant bedrooms. Seems time for him to cut the apron strings from his MaMa: better late than never. What a pathetic group of unsuccessful dependents on City Council.
History is full of examples of non-Achievers trying to control the assets of achievers.
I wouldn't call 'em non-achievers Brent - they figured out how to skim the payroll by appealing to all the stupid people who keep voting them in.
Way to tell it like it is Earl!!!
The Life and Death of American Cities - rent control. Thank you for this excellent presentation about the extreme distortion landlord/tenant rights and duties now face.
This has already impacted the local rental market availability. Rentals must now be found only through private networking, for any landlord to feel safe exposing themselves to these onerous consequences. Anyone who thought adding an ADU to their own property for the extra income, must also be suffering a great deal of buyer's remorse. I hope your excellent article gets wide distribution.
Any small rental owner knows the renovations clauses are virtually impossible to provide, since few contractors in town even bother with small project renovations. Let alone return phone calls. There is no way a small landlord can meet those project certification timeline demands.
Santamaria is a creation of SEIU, who probably gave her these detailed marching orders. Sneddon, pulling down a quarter million dollars in taxpayer compensation every year, is fully out of touch with the real world. Harmon has been obsessive from day one about "affordable housing", while she chooses to romp from one high profile public engagement to the next. And Gutierrez was brought on originally as a Mayor at the time Cathy Murillo clone- (another child of SEIU), with Oscar sitting on his hands waiting for Cathy to tell him how to vote.
This is what voters, after CVRA mandated "district elections" now call the majority wishes for all city-wide matters. Two of whom come from the very low-voter turnout specially created minority-majority districts, requiring only a few hundred votes to win their full voting seat on city council. City wide voters supported Randy Rowse, the sole consistent and sane voice on council today. The six others are now all representatives of these newly created dysfunctional Balkan states within the whole of the city.
This town is in for world of hurt. District elections has been a 100% fail. Will Monqiue Limon and Gregg Hart petition for changes in the CVRA that align with the real world? Unlikely.
*CVRA = California Voting Rights Act (a must read for all Californians)
Ah, CVRA, another scheme by the Ds to water down conservative representation…EVERYTHING IS RIGGED! passing this along from a fren…
Imagine a game of poker where one player not only gets to deal the cards but also keeps one hand tucked behind their back, just in case. Welcome to the 2020 Census, where the dealer wasn't interested in fairness, but in tilting the scales to one side. A mere error in the 2020 Census? Hardly. It was more like a carefully orchestrated scheme, veiled behind the mundane bureaucracy of data collection. The errors were so conveniently aligned with political biases that it defies the realm of mere incompetence. The Census Bureau, under the guise of neutral public service, crafted a masterpiece of distortion. The overcounts happened in the usual suspect states: Hawaii, New York, and Delaware—bastions of the Democratic machine. The undercounts? In places like Texas and Florida—states critical for Republican hopes. The civil service employees running the census, with their overwhelming support for Democratic campaigns (a stunning 90% of those who donated gave to Democrats), showed just where their loyalties lay.
The 2020 Census was not a solitary government effort. The Census Bureau collaborated with more than 55 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to count citizens and non-citizens alike. Almost all of these NGOs were left-leaning or aligned with Democratic interests. The Funders' Committee for Civic Participation (FCCP) played a significant role in mobilizing resources and support for the census. The FCCP's Census Subgroup included well-known foundations such as the Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations, and the Carnegie Corporation of New York—entities often associated with George and Alex Soros and other Democrat-aligned activists. With the Census Bureau's budget for the 2020 Census at approximately $15.6 billion, it becomes evident that a substantial portion of this funding flowed into Soros-affiliated NGOs, essentially channeling taxpayer dollars into the hands of those whose interests were clearly partisan.
Want to know why Ds want to keep the criminal aliens here in the US? They're scared to death that they'll lose even more seats in Congress.
To be clear, this isn't the Census Bureau's first rodeo with errors. But the scale and the direction of the 2020 Census errors suggest something far more sinister than bureaucratic bungling. When errors all align in the same direction, benefiting one party over another, Occam’s razor tells us we’re not looking at mere accident—we’re looking at intent. And if not outright collusion, then at least an ideological bias so deeply entrenched that it colors every element of supposedly neutral data collection. It’s time to end this masquerade of ‘error’ and call it what it is: a subversion of the democratic process.
PS. We are watching systematic destruction of the D Party, and they are assisting in their demise…”Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon
Democrats selling "election reform" over the past 20-30 years did this state no favors. But they did lock in a super-majority of government employee union supported candidates. Just as intended. And now the state budget is permanently in the red. We marched into this Big Muddy step by step. It is now our task to undo this.
We voted for "election reform" to break up the longstanding control of Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, remember? He now looks like a model for good governance, compared to what we got in exchange. This is heart breaking, really.
The past 20-30 years of "election reform" in this state need to be rescinded step by step, because it failed 100%. Along with the unsustainable government "pension reform" that was the primary motivator for the Democrat ginned up "election reform".
also AG Kamala Harris's role defeating two voter initiated pension reform ballot measures, where state finances still had a chance to be saved. But Democrats made sure this would never happened again by systematically destroying any and all political opposition.
Now we have growing public debt, massive waste fraud and abuse, and a one-party supermajority who moved in fast and locked in their dominant position. While we slept. And while the old GOP kept shooting itself in the foot with specious, ideological litmus tests.
Where we are today in California, was the result of a mutual mass extinction event.
Well said…the other big hit was the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002, which made significant reforms to US elections to “address issues” identified after the 2000 election…establishing mandatory minimum standards for states concerning election administration, including areas like provisional voting, voting information, updated voting equipment (think Dominion), statewide voter registration databases, and voter identification procedures…
Ironically, Democrats gaming elections for so long created the MAGA movement, out of the first resistance Tea Party efforts who sensed something had gone very wrong with the former two party political climate.
Democrats branding Tea Party fiscal conservatives as racists, was their first strategic error. They could cancel, but they could not cover up the seeping US debt concerns.
MAGA in turn carved RINO's out the newly defined Republican party which was now a winning and populist coalition, rather than the stuffy old boys club. The God of small favors.
The Democrats Great Replacement turned into the Great Political Realignment, that we are witnessing today. With growing numbers of independents finally taking a larger and longer view on all US priorities. We are living in interesting times.
The key issue today is Big Government nanny state vs. Limited Government personal accountability with consequences state.
Loy- Thank you for bringing this issue to the forefront. Every investor needs to understand that long term, your hard-earned assets are not safe in a progressive state. I sold my California rental property two years ago and invested in a Red State market.
We are asking ourself s when will it be too late to sell our rental property?The question is do you want to be the one who can now not sell because no one is going to buy your rental property because of all the rental laws That is what my business partner and I are now discussing.....sell and invest in another state. I think Mike may be early but better 10 years early that 1 day too late.
Paul- If it helps to know, Santa Barbara is blacklisted by previously interested investors because of the 4 named financially illiterate Council Members: Sneddon, Gutierrez, Santamaria and Harmon. Your last sentence is impactful advice: one that I’ll remember.
Housing is a commodity. It is not a right.
Rent control requires the private landlord pay the tenant. Just so the tenant can live in the landlord's property, but at a subsidized rate determined by external fiat; not the market. You can see where this is going. Rent control has failed everywhere it has been imposed.
First round was to scream 'housing crisis" 24/7 that soften up the voters. Then trot out "rent control" as a solution for the "housing crisis" Be sure to audit those initial perceptions as "rent control" unfolds over time. .
Remember who pushed this on Santa Barbara. At least two of the current city council persons may well be running for mayor since they are termed out. For those who think city council elections "outside of their own district" don't matter to them, this should be a major wake-up call.
The obligations imposed on the owners of rental property are shockingly complex. I have always compared rent control to the shoppers in a grocery store voting on what the prices should be.
Berney
Another insidious way in which you don't own your property is the levying of property taxes on a recurring basis. Name me anything else that you own that you pay taxes on every year while you own it. You may pay a onetime tax but that is it. The reason you know that you don't own the property is because wait to see what happens if you can't pay the property tax one year. In fact, what really is happening is that you are renting the property from the govt and the property tax is essentially your rent payment.
Government always looking to extract their pound of flesh.
Who to blame? The morons who keep voting for these Communist Democrats.
A word of advice for SB landlords . . . RUN!
Next up - Governor Kamala.
Add to that the purchase price of real estate here, the insane cost of fire insurance, property taxes, the rules on getting every minor change permitted and inspected, and it’s no wonder people flee our city and state. Freedom in places like Tennessee and other red states lures a growing number of people to flee Californistan. The weather is hard to beat however.
Thank you Loy!! Are County rules similarly costly, burdensome, ridiculous? Please inform us. Effectively it’s confiscation of private property. Owners need to know. BTW: D3 re-elected Rep Oscar Gutierrez stated on Newsmakers he supports a registry of vacant bedrooms. Seems time for him to cut the apron strings from his MaMa: better late than never. What a pathetic group of unsuccessful dependents on City Council.