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John Cobalt show, Mark Thompson, sitting in for John. Thank you for joining us with your resolutions, with the end of the year.

If you're just staggering to the finish line, there is this that's happening in Santa Ana. There's a new ordinance

that wants to hold landlords accountable for rent increases, but listen to what's happening

and how it spills back onto the renter. They have this rent stabilization and just cause eviction

ordinance in Santa Ana?

So it now requires landlords to enter renters information into an online database.

And that keeps apartment owners in compliance to make sure that they're, you know, compliance a lot of different ways.

But the rental registration fee for the landlord is $100 a unit every year. And the way it's

worded, the landlord is allowed to spin off half of that cost onto the renter. So you're

essentially building a rent increase in, although the landlord's not

getting the money, Santa Ana's getting the money. Renters are getting letters from landlords saying

that the city is implementing new regulations for rental properties. And to cover the incurred costs,

we will be, quote, implementing an annual nominal fee of $50 per tenant to contribute to the city's rental registration fees.

You know, one renter says, if I knew my landlord was going to come fix my stuff and everything, then yeah, gladly.

But if my landlord doesn't come fix anything, then I'm going to pay $50 after that.

I need the $50 to fix stuff. The rental registry launched in August, but the deadline now is

December 31st. That's why this is coming. This wave is cresting this weekend.

Landlords have to register each rental unit with tenant information. They have to pay this

$100 registry fee on each unit. L.A. County has a similar ordinance. They have a landlord

registry fee of $90 a unit.

So the idea somehow that you can split it between the property owner and the tenant, this is, this creates problems.

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