bpoa May newsblast
Next Members Meeting & Workshop:
Saturday, June 1st
(it's fun, it's free and you always learn something)
The Insurance Workshop
with Strahan Insurance
Are you a target for your tenants? What happens when a tenant trips and falls or your unit has a fire or the wind blows a tree over? What does renters insurance do for the landlord? Do you wake up at night worried? Henry will discuss what the risks, exposures, or causes of potential loss are. How can the right coverage get you thru and back on track?
also, A speaker from Recology East Bay will brief you on Zero Waste!
Link Here for a Guide to Fees Due
&
Michael St.John on
THE ALAMEDA COUNTY GRAND JURY HAS ISSUED A REPORT EXCORIATING THE BERKELEY RENT STABILIZATION BOARD.
Link to the report: HERE
It begins on page 63 and runs to page 74.
The Report concludes with the following recommendations:
RECOMMENDATIONS
· Recommendation 12-10:
The Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board must reduce the high rental unit
registration fees.
· Recommendation 12-11:
The Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board must allow landlords to pass through a
larger proportion of the registration fee to tenants.
· Recommendation 12-12:
The Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board must ask the city of Berkeley Human
Resources Department for a thorough position-control audit to evaluate the
number of staff, the classifications and workload.
· Recommendation 12-13:
The Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board must ask the city Human Resources
department to provide more comprehensive salary comparisons regularly and
use them in setting salaries and benefits, including those of the executive director
and the board members.
· Recommendation 12-14:
The Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board must conduct annual performance reviews
of the executive director to provide more effective oversight.
and we made the evening news
and the Wall Street Journal!
http://www.bpoa.org/doc/pdf/-wsj_on_gj_recommendations.pdf
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New Recycling Law in Berkeley
read about it here
http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/ContentDisplay.aspx?id=5618
Have Questions?????
Contact us!
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Mold got you down? We've got some information for you HERE
and HERE
For Information on the new EPA Lead Laws, Link HERE
remember that there is a $37,500.00 fine per violation!
Berkeley Property Owners Association
email: bpoa@bpoa.org
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATON
The only thing worse than bullies who forcefully take what is rightfully yours are the bureaucratic thugs who claim it is moral for them to take it.Protect your rights to life and property with the same tenacity you would fight a bully. Don't let them use moral guilt to disarm you.
--Eric Khrom
Brooklyn NY
SIMPLY PUT...
- You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
- What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
- The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
- When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.
- You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
FREE MONEY FROM ASHBY LUMBER?
Now, new and renewing BPOA members will receive 50% off their next purchase of up to $100 in merchandise from Ashby Lumber. That\\\\\\\'s like getting a check for $50 when you join or renew! The discount applies to nearly everything sold at Ashby Lumber & Hardware. Only power tools, sale items, and special orders are excluded. Coupons are mailed by BPOA to qualifying members. Not a member? Become one now! Join BPOA
SOFT STORY
The Berkeley Soft Story Program has been moved to the Buildings & Safety Department
You can Link to them HERE
Need Mentoring? Contact us! bpoa@bpoa.org
The ranks of property owners are swelling, as evidenced by requests to the office to join our organization.To familiarize newcomers with our local "system," andto facilitate contact with BPOA boardmembers, we have started a mentoring program.
Please call the office for information at (510) 525-3666. or Contact us.
