Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in California

Re: rent increase

If you are in a rent controled city, they normally allow rent increases once per year. Otherwise, each time the rental period ends a new contract is being entered into so all of the terms can be changed if proper notifiction is given. So if you agree to a one year lease, your rent can not be raised for a full year. But if when that year is over a new lease is not entered into, which is often the case, you then become a month to month renter and technically each month the rent could be raised.

You could try to get a longer term lease from the landlord or go to them and complain that your income has not gone up, if that is true, but their rent has gone up twice and you are afraid they will keep on raising it quickly. Will then give you a guarantee, fully written out, when they are allowed to raise your rent or how often every year, in return for undner the current circumstances your staying to live there.

Re: rent increase

Unless you have a term lease, or your lease states otherwise, the landlord in a month-to-month tenancy can increase the rent virtually at will. They do have to give you a thirty day notice, however, if they do so, they may increase it quarterly, monthly or on whatever schedule they deem appropriate.

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