On the eve of the most recent expiration date, California passed a statewide measure designed to help those renters who are experiencing financial hardship due to COVID-19. Assembly Bill 2179 will grant a moratorium extension ending on June 30. Here are some really important updates on that, and why landlords and tenants alike should be considering mediation as a way to address this problem!

Los Angeles County has extended its eviction moratorium through the end of 2022 for residential tenants. However, for most other parts of the state, the moratorium runs out at the end of the month. Tenants in other parts of California, as well as their landlords, are becoming increasingly worried about how to handle rental debt and whether or not to evict, or how to approach the subject.

Roommates can have disputes for a number of reasons. It can be difficult to decide what to do when there is a problem with the lease, how to divide things like property, various expenses, cleaning and maintenance, etc. Mediation is great for roommate issues because they can be difficult to resolve alone, and there isn’t always an ideal place to deal with them in court. Mediation is also a way to address these issues very quickly and at a small cost compared to alternatives.

Los Angeles County has recently decided to extend its eviction moratorium through the end of 2022 for residential tenants. The extension gives some of the many people with rental debt additional time to apply for rental assistance in an effort to eliminate most debt by the end of the year. There are some carve outs and requirements to fall under the protections of the extension. This is your quick guide to understanding how this might impact you, and how mediation can help in certain circumstances.

Although mediation is overall very successful, the reasons it fails versus when it is successful tends to establish patterns of success and failure. Preparing for mediation includes physical preparation as well as mental preparation in order to be able to make decisions from a place of clarity about a situation and with more grounded expectations about what options might be available to the parties.

If you’ve ever signed a cell phone contract, utility or virtually any other agreement for goods or services these days, you have agreed to resolve any dispute with the other party through arbitration. There are several key things about it that make it different from court, and some are both potentially beneficial or detrimental depending on circumstances.