A Nightmare for Property Owners in LA!

0:00just how much of a nightmare has it become for property owners in Los Angeles County? Well, the City Council has just announced people don't have to pay their rent for up to two months before eviction can begin and now squatters are burning down homes. Coming up will tell you about the devastation hitting property owners in Los Angeles because of bad liberal policies and how these policies are coming to your community. All that and more coming up. I'm Carl DeBio, Chairman of Reform California and a California State Representative and you know that California Democrat politicians have declared war on property rights. Private property rights are completely well out the window when it comes to Democrats and what they want. We already know that Democrats are constantly trying to increase taxes, property taxes,

1:01getting rid of Prop 13, imposing this new bizarre property transfer tax scheme which says that if you try to sell your property, the government gets almost like a real estate commission of up to $60,000 in Los Angeles County for the sale of a house. Six percent in the average priced house sale is about a million dollars. On top of that, they're coming in and allowing squatters to remain rent-free in homes before anything is done to enforce and get them out. There's actually a tragedy that just hit one family. Their home got burned down. Their dog was killed by a fire started by squatters and they had repeatedly begged L.A. government officials to do something about it. I'm going to get into the solution to this but you need to understand that where goes L.A. eventually goes your community here in California and because they're like the Petri dish of bad ideas. They come up with these absurd far left extremist ideas. They implement

2:08them and then loony tunes in other parts of the state get elected to their city councils and say, well, it's being done in L.A. Let's do it here. That's how the leftist mob works. So we need to stop this front and center. We have to expose what's going on in L.A. And use it as a warning to other voters, other communities around the state and you need to be on the lookout for some of these policies that they implemented in L.A. that likely are going to be added to your city council agenda. Soon. But the only way to really stop this is to get better elected representatives into office at both the state and local level. So I encourage you to join the fight our permanent campaign at reform california.org reform california.org that outlines all of our news but also all of our campaigns to make things better. The voter ID initiative the save prop 13 initiative which will stop that property transfer tax that I just mentioned earlier. All of that is what we're fighting for in the November election because we've helped qualify ballot measures to enact those reforms. More

3:12importantly, we have our voter guide go to the website reform california.org check out our voter guides. We have a voter guide for every part of the state you just put in the county that you live in and up will pop a local voter guide for you to look through all the ballot measures and we give you a plain English description on the ballot measures. But we also endorse candidates for city council judge school board all the way up to congress and of course the state legislature. Also while you're there, please sign up on the website. No, we don't share or sell any personal information. This is all about tethering you into our growing movement to fight in california and take back our state. If you're not signed up, you won't know what's happening in your area and you won't be able to participate in our events or campaign efforts in your area. So sign up at the bottom of the website. First name, last name, email, phone, and zip code and you'll be tethered in. Let's go through some of the extreme extremist policies in LA. So what have they done? Well, to crush homeowners, they've raised the cost of utilities. They've enacted rent control.

4:18So you can't actually keep up with the cost of utility growth or your own expenses. They've made it so difficult for a landlord to even rent property. When you have a rent application, you're not allowed to do things like check their immigration status or say that this is a drug free environment. You're not allowed to even say you can't have pets or we have to charge a pet fee to protect the property. Some landlords don't want pets at their property. It's up to the landlord, right? There are a number of leases out there that allow pets. I mean, I'm all four pets, but again, it's a private property decision. They also say that you cannot ask people whether they are going to use government financial assistance to pay their rent. Are you on section 8 housing vouchers? That's against the law in the state of California. I actually think that a credit report and whether or not you are able to pay rent on your own accord versus the dependency of government. I think that is pertinent information. Some landlords are okay with section 8.

5:22Some landlords prefer not to have the section 8 people there, but it's against the law. Now you've got a section 8 advocate, almost like ADA lawsuits, going to lease notifications, advertisements for apartments and rentals, and literally shaking down these mom and pop landlords. By the way, 92% of rentals are from mom and pop landlords. These are people who have two or fewer units. Most of them are renting a second home, and they're not up to speed with all the rules and regulations that are so complicated about regulating what landlords can do. This is why it's so expensive. Most people don't want to rent to others in the state of California because there are so many crazy regulations. The only way you see rentals are these massive

6:22corporations coming in and gobbling up the inventory, but 98% of rentals are one and two they're mom and pop. So they're not aware of some of these rules, and they're getting shaken down through things like ADA lawsuits. This is the section 8 lawsuit, and this is happening all around the state of California. And then when they do get 10 and 10, the state of California says if they don't want to pay rent, they don't have to. So you already have rent control, and locally in Los Angeles, here's the headline. LA tells renters they're free to skip out on paying their landlords for at least two months before facing an eviction. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted for one to impose the new rule. They take effect middle of next month, and basically says people can skip two months of rent before you can even file

7:24in court to start eviction proceedings. And then you have to go through that whole long eviction process. And it's very complicated. One single mistake, one notification you didn't provide, one comma or I not dotted or T not crossed, and you have to start the whole process over again. And this is so predatory. And then there are the squatters. Homo squatters set fire to LA House destroying family home next door and killing their dogs. This fire happened in House and Central Los Angeles. And pictures went on X. It's now getting national news coverage happened in early March. This is terrible. Property management company said neighbors had warned that the vacant home was being broken into over and over again by drug out drugged out vagrants. The city did nothing about it.

8:29A follow on story with a lawsuit by the family that lost their home against the city of Los Angeles for not doing their job said every time they called the police about the squatters, quote, they said the squatters weren't committing any crimes. So they couldn't arrest them and that they were just looking for a place to stay and that we should just leave them alone. According to the cops, the squatters were doing drugs inside the property. So they couldn't be arrested. They're unlawfully possessing a home that's not theirs. To me, that's, well, I don't know, against the law. And then they're doing illegal drugs. That also against the law. But seemingly the police are saying, well, for some reason, our policy and our department, if someone's using drugs, well, they're a protected class. Can't do anything about that. If we don't ask the right personal pronoun, boy, we get written up.

9:32Lawlessness is the name of the game. People who are the lawbreakers are catered to while people who abide by the rules pay their own rent or their mortgage. They get victimized or even worse, their house gets burned down from a fire started by the squatters next door and their dogs get killed. Absolute insanity. And again, nothing being done. By the state of California. To do anything. To give relief. I've introduced a bill assembly bill eight nine seven that was killed by Democrats last year. It would expedite the removal of squatters. Basically says that if someone is squatting in a property that when the police show up, they are to provide notification to the squatters that they are to be out in 72 hours. Unless they can go to court and provide any evidence, any evidence, they don't have to prove it.

10:37We just have to provide any evidence that they actually do have a lease and that this is just a rent dispute, which case we then would have a normal proceeding. But if within 72 hours, they don't at least file with the court some document, some proof to a ledge that there's some dispute on rent, a reasonable legal. He said she said dispute within 72 hours, the squatters have to leave or they will be arrested, physically removed and charged with the misdemeanor. This allows an expedited process to get rid of squatters. It is the only common sense reform that we can enact. It's not taking away their right lawful right of people who are disputing a lease or who are behind on their rent to go to court and go and have their day in court and do a adjudication. I would like to streamline

11:38that as well. But hey, we start with something something simple, AB eight nine seven. Democrats said, no, these people, these squatters need housing. I don't dispute that, but you know what, maybe they should get a blank and job and go get a real rental or at the very least, if they need housing, stealing it from someone, taking the housing, the property of someone else is not the answer and government should not give any sort of license or protection for that bad behavior. But that's what we're doing in California. No, Democrats killed the bill. They don't care about private property rights. They care about protecting the lawless class. Now in LA, another property problems popped up. I want to put this in real quick. You know, the folks that had their homes burned down in the palisades fire and the Altadena fire? Well, HOA. And you know, I do not

12:38like HOAs. They're filled with the carons. They always sit in judgment of what other property owners are doing and a lot of them weaponize some of them are good. Okay, let's be clear. Some of them are good and they do good work. I totally get it. But there's been a lot of abuses. The HOA bill that I authored, Democrats initially killed it because my name was on it. Then I gave it to another legislator and it got passed, but it requires open meetings and it expands open meetings work armats so that we know what the HOA is actually doing. Anyway, well, this HOA is out of control. It's the Lovina community in Altadena and they notified the victims of the fire in that area that they have to pay a $23,000 bill due within 34 days. 34 days to pay $23,000. And most of these people are still negotiating and fighting their insurance companies to get an honorable payout

13:38of reasonable payout. The HOA says, well, we have bills. We've got to pay things because, you know, we're we're having to rebuild. I understand that. But hey, it's a process. I mean, $23,000. $23,614. And if you don't ship in, you're going to be subject to late fees, a lien on the home. By the way, if you get a lien that makes it even harder for you to rebuild your house, again, this is insane. And to get a mortgage, then, you know, move into that house and pay your HOA fees. This is a death spiral for this community. This HOA is insane. And we have to do something here. I'm working on some legislation right now to provide an immediate solution for this HOA because I don't think that these property owners should be hit with this sudden $23,000 plus penalty. But there doesn't seem to be any concern by the politicians in LA or in Sacramento, statewide politicians for any of the turmoil that these property owners are seeing

14:45in Los Angeles. But what are they doing? They're bending themselves over backwards to help out the illegal immigrants catering to them, not worrying about what's going on to citizens and property owners in our state. It's happening all around the state of California. These policies are going to expand to your area as well. At Reform California, we believe in common sense. And we're trying to get common sense legislators elected at the state and local levels. Join us at reformcalifornia.org. Until next time, I'm Carl DeBio, chairman of Reform California, and a California state representative. Thanks for watching, and I hope you enjoyed this episode. But before you click away, please subscribe to this channel and click that notification button, so you get updated when we post new episodes. Plus, like this video and share it with your friends so that we can help spread our message across the state.