Legal Question in Real Estate Law in California

Re: Can you rent after an eviction?

There is no law, and if the eviction is on yur credit report, you will need to live with it.

I would do a few things:

1. Get a copy of your credit report to see if it is on the report.

2. If it is, write a letter of explanation, and have it placed on your credit report. The credit reporting agencies are required to publish that information on any report they send to someone.

3. Get a report from your current landlord showing all the current payments. Have a copy of that with you when you look at new places, so they can see your curren record. Also, send a copy of that to the credit reporting companies, and ask them to publis it, too.

4. When you visit new places, be honest with the new landlord or managers. Tell them up front what happened, and show them your updated credit report and letter from the current landlord. Let them know that you do not want them to run a credit report on you UNLESS they are willing to rent to you when it comes back as you have shown them. Some will say no, so move on.

The worst thing that you can do is to have 20 credit reports run on you, especially since they normally charge you for them.

You would be surprised how many people will give you the benefit of the doubt when you are up front with them.

Good luck.