What is the test for a landlord to terminate a lease without good cause?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from Cal. Valley Props. LLC v. Berlfein, 261 Cal.Rptr.3d 405, 48 Cal.App.5th Supp. 1 (Cal. Super. 2020):

"LARSO was born out of the shortage of affordable housing, especially for low-income individuals, in Los Angeles. [Citation.] It seeks to safeguard tenants from excessive rent increases by imposing certain statutory limitations and obligations on landlords which landlords would otherwise not be subject to under normal freedom to contract principles ..., [including], prohibit[ing] landlords from terminating leases without one of 14 enumerated good causes. [Citation.]" ( Boston LLC v. Juarez (2016) 245 Cal.App.4th 75, 84, 199 Cal.Rptr.3d 452.) "Permitting landlords ... with superior bargaining power to forfeit leases based on minor or trivial breaches would allow them to strategically circumvent LARSOs good cause eviction requirements and disguise pretext evictions under the cloak of contract provisions." ( Id. at p. 85, 199 Cal.Rptr.3d 452.)

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