One week left to register for CAA webinar on rental housing fees

Rental housing providers have one week left to register for a California Apartment Association webinar that will tackle one of the more stubborn compliance questions in the business: which fees you can charge, how much you can charge and when local rules may change the answer.

The webinar, "Rental Housing Fees: The Big Picture," is scheduled for May 27. It is built around a problem many providers run into in real life. There is no single California rulebook for rental housing fees. Screening charges, deposits, utility costs, late fees and other recurring charges can all raise different issues depending on state law, local rent control rules and recent enforcement trends.

That is what makes the session timely. A fee that seems routine can still create problems if a local ordinance restricts it, if AB 1482 affects how a recurring charge is treated, or if regulators are paying closer attention to how fees are disclosed.

CAA says the webinar will walk through the fees providers deal with every day, including screening charges, security deposits, utilities and late fees. It will also examine how AB 1482's rent cap affects certain mandatory recurring charges beyond base rent, recent Attorney General enforcement involving utility unbundling and new periodic fees, the role of local rent control ordinances, and federal scrutiny of fee disclosure and "drip pricing."

The session will be taught by Mallory Homewood, policy and compliance counsel for local government affairs at CAA, and Monica Deka, compliance and legislative counsel at the association.

The live webinar costs $45 for CAA members and $85 for nonmembers. A live-plus-on-demand option costs $55 for members and $95 for nonmembers. The webinar qualifies for one unit of CCRM continuing education credit for current certified individuals.

Register for Rental Housing Fees: The Big Picture