Legacy Asset Management

Journal

What we have learned running rental property in Los Angeles since 1991, written down. Two sections, because owners and renters need opposite things from the same rulebook.

For Owners

Written for people who own a building and have to keep it compliant, tenanted and standing. Rent stabilization, historic overlay work, retrofit and inspection deadlines, and what each of them costs in practice.

  • Historic West Adams, block by block

    The eight historic overlay districts with their adopted boundaries mapped, both Business Improvement Districts, and the five neighborhoods that carry no overlay at all.

  • West Adams property management

    How we work, what we charge, and what running a pre-1978 building inside a historic overlay actually involves.

Articles are on the way. The guides above cover a good deal of the same ground.

For Renters

Written for people renting in Los Angeles. Deposits and what may lawfully be taken out of one, repairs your landlord is obliged to make, and how tenant screening actually works. We manage buildings, which means some of this describes obligations we are on the hook for.

  • Protect your credit

    How to freeze your credit reports at all three bureaus for free, how to lift the freeze in an hour before you apply for a home, and what to do when a tenant screening report has something wrong on it.

  • West Adams neighborhood guide

    Sixty-three places along Washington, Adams and Jefferson, and which Metro E Line station serves which stretch, before you sign a lease.

Articles are on the way. The guides above cover a good deal of the same ground.

The first articles are being written. In the meantime the historic districts guide and the guide to protecting your credit cover a good deal of the same ground.