The way it should work is as long as landlord can show proof that the rental unit is being actively advertised and shown, landlord should be able to collect weekly “un-rentability” benefits similar to unemployment benefits. 
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advertise the unit at 50% of market rent, but have some written down hard to fulfill criteria (like: tenant must be born February 29th), and keep collecting $50 application fees every day. It’s crucial that your requirements in a tenant don’t discriminate a protected class. Also, the legal limit for those fees increases, next year you can charge $51.
Note: this is not advice of any sort.
Example of a stupid rule by CA which will have consequences for rest of people who do not live in fire risk areas.
Haven’t done any analysis but feels like more stupid laws being passed than sane.
It’s a one-year moratorium. Seems well-intentioned and probably reasonable.
But nothing is temporary in California. Rent control started out as temporary too. There will be a bill coming that will “allow the insurance companies to go out of business” much like the Ellis Act. 
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They’ll end up doing what Florida dies for hurricane insurance. The state runs it and everyone pays into the state fund. It’s just the sort of communism California loves and fits right in with government takeover of PGE.
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California is already a provider of Earthquake insurance. I do not know how it works though. But, I will be interested in knowing.
This seems to be the future receipe for CA? Bolded relevant parts below.
When bailiffs came knocking earlier this year, it was the first time Kaddi Bah realised the four-room Stockholm apartment she shared with her sister and another friend was being illegally sub-let.
Now Bah, a 27-year-old hotel receptionist, has been evicted after authorities confiscated the property from the owner as part of a crackdown on black market rentals.
Since late November, she has shared a one-room apartment with a friend. The only other choice would be to move back in with her father and several other relatives who share an apartment, and where she had to sleep on the floor
“It’s very stressful. The room is full of stuff and it’s about as far from my work as you can get. But there’s nothing I can do,” she said.
Bah’s predicament is just one symptom of Sweden’s dysfunctional housing market.
Controls on private sector renting and a shortage of publicly allocated housing – you can wait 30 years for an apartment in attractive parts of Stockholm – have nurtured the perfect conditions for a lucrative market in illegal sub-lets where the final tenant must pay way over the odds.
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“Many Midtown tenants received huge rent increases, including some as high as 300 percent of what they were previously paying,” Preston said. “The tenants challenged the rent increases, but the Rent Board ruled the San Francisco city’s rent control law does not extend to Midtown because the property is owned by the city.”
This is interesting. When the SF city government is the landlord it does not think a 300% rent increase is an issue. I guess landlording is a toxic profession that good characters as progressive as the SF government can have tainted thoughts when running a landlord job.
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This seems to align well with my belief that the State of California has become desperate and confiscatory.
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Lol, is anyone surprised the government is completely hypocritical?
People/Electorate of CA are totally clueless or what?
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Seems to be just the initial steps. Future in the hands of the same people will be worse.
It’s happening in Berlin, why can’t it happen in California?
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Meanwhile, activists are collecting signatures to put a referendum on the ballot to seize the property of larger developers and operate it as public housing
Can do this in a democracy? Sound like anarchy.
@manch Still not thinking of leaving your pond? Using the startup metric, you got an excellent reason to invest but you have intentionally suppressed the political issues. Behaving like an ostrich or the external force is not strong enough to cause a change in your direction? When the external force is strong enough, it may be too late.
For anyone who’s scared, I’ll be glad to take your problem away for you. That’s what friends are for. 
Oakland wants to ban criminal Bach ground checks. Says they discriminate against felons. Of Democrats assume that criminals would vote Democratic if felons were allowed to vote
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Aren’t landlords liable if tenants use a property for illegal activity? That’s insane you can’t check criminal background but can be liable for criminal activity.
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Oakland is not for landlords. Get rid of them asap if you have rental.