Rental housing providers have one day left to register for a California Apartment Association webinar designed to help landlords evaluate rental housing fees under the overlapping frameworks of state law, local ordinances and federal consumer protection rules.
Meet the speakers
Policy & Compliance Counsel, Local Government Affairs
California Apartment Association
Compliance and Legislative Counsel
California Apartment Association
The webinar, "Rental Housing Fees: The Big Picture," is scheduled for tomorrow, Wednesday, May 27.
It is built around a problem many providers run into in real life. There is no single California rulebook for rental housing fees.
Screening charges, utility costs, late fees and other recurring charges can all raise different issues depending on how the charge is structured, whether it is mandatory or optional, whether it is tied to occupancy, and whether local laws apply. That is what makes the session timely. A fee that seems routine can still create problems if a local ordinance restricts it, if AB 1482 affects how a recurring mandatory charge is treated, or if regulators conclude the fee was not disclosed clearly and upfront.
The webinar will examine how AB 1482's rent cap affects certain mandatory recurring charges beyond base rent, recent Attorney General enforcement involving utility unbundling and new periodic fees, the role of local rent control ordinances, and federal scrutiny of fee disclosure and "drip pricing."
The webinar will also walk through the fees housing providers deal with every day, including screening charges, security deposits, utilities and late fees.
The session will be taught by Mallory Homewood, policy and compliance counsel for local government affairs at CAA, and Monica Deka, compliance and legislative counsel at the association.
The live webinar costs $45 for CAA members and $85 for nonmembers. A live-plus-on-demand option costs $55 for members and $95 for nonmembers. The webinar qualifies for one unit of CCRM continuing education credit for current certified individuals.
