Legal Question in Real Estate Law in California

Resident managers are treated like employees, not tenants, and can be terminated and removed from the premises without an eviction procedure.

I disagree with Mr. Whipple here. He is correct that resident managers are employees, but they do not leave all of their tenants rights at the door to the manager's unit. If there is a special managers unit, having such things as a reception area, counter or other facilities in the unit but specifically designed for management duties, he is right that no notice is required upon termination, but that is not the same as permitting seizure of the manager's property and denying him access to the unit. If the manager just has a discounted rent on a standard unit, paid out of wages, he is a renter like any other, except the tenancy ends with employment and only a three day notice is required. The key reason I think Mr. Whipple is wrong here, however, is that self-help remedies are not permitted in any case. Just like any other resident you are entitled to unlawfully detain the premises without being locked out or worse yet being physically barred from your unit by security staff, and your property seized, if you are willing to face the consequences of an unlawful detainer action against you. So while I agree with Whipple that you do not have an unlawful eviction action if you occupied a manager's unit, you do if you occupied an undifferentiated unit and paid rent by deduction/credit against wages. And in either case you have a conversion cause of action for taking your property.