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Moving Your Property Management Program to the Cloud

Dustin Dalee, Manager, Yardi Breeze—Dustin Dalee leads a sales team at Yardi Breeze, a property management technology company, that offers a cloud-based program called Breeze Premier. In this interview he discusses why companies should consider upgrading their property management technology. Why is it so important that clients upgrade to the latest software? There’s a competitive landscape in the market, and companies are turning to technology to help scale their businesses. The most successful property management companies are always at the forefront of tech evolution.

One of the biggest reasons clients upgrade is to go to the cloud. In fact, many of our clients who were self-hosting a prior-generation Yardi product were able to upgrade quickly. Online property management software offers a secure way to host data and allow access at any time. By moving to the cloud, our clients can work remotely. Simply giving clients the ability to easily post available vacancies on their website or Internet listing services provides them with all the tools they need to market and lease their units online. Even so, do you ever run into clients who are hesitant about upgrading? Sometimes, clients can feel overwhelmed by the thought of change. Our aim is to educate them and help them plan an appropriate upgrade path for whenever they’re ready. When they get better insight into the conversion process, it’s usually not as intimidating as it seemed at first. Does it take time to plan and learn new property management software? It’s important to plan ahead for a successful upgrade. The first step is to meet with our team and have a consultative call. This helps us understand how they’re using their current system. From there, we can determine whether Breeze or Breeze Premier is the best fit. We then go over how the upgrade process is going to work and schedule a conversion date. Once their data is converted, we encourage them to make some time to learn the new system. Are customers more concerned with saving more money or being able to do more with the software? It’s all about doing more with an improved business system and scaling their portfolio without the need for additional staff. Likewise, they want to empower their staff to be more efficient and scale the business with features like online payments, online maintenance requests, chatbots, and full-service invoice processing. The features free up the team to focus on higher-level tasks. Are there any features that tend to convince people to switch or upgrade? One of the bigger points of interest for our residential clients is the ability to launch branded corporate and property websites. Our marketing and leasing solution supports online leasing with options for integrated screening and renters insurance. Historically, a lot of these things have been done manually, but to have an integrated system is really compelling.

This article was reprinted with permission from Yardi Breeze.

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BILL 2179

New 3-Day Notice Form Required

from April 1, 2022, Until June 30, 2022

Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, serving as acting governor for Gov. Gavin Newsom, signed Assembly Bill 2179 into law, which, among other things, extends the state’s preemption on local governments adopting new COVID-19 eviction moratoriums until July 1, 2022, but at the same time, extends the state’s eviction moratorium until June 30, 2022, under certain circumstances.

Prior to Assembly Bill 2179’s passage, the preemption and eviction moratorium was set to expire effective on March 31, 2022, with several local jurisdictions planning to adopt onerous local eviction moratoriums on April 1, 2022. Under Assembly Bill 2179, these local jurisdictions are now prohibited from extending existing or from passing further new eviction moratoriums until at least July 1, 2022. In addition, Assembly Bill 2179 only protects past due renters from eviction under limited circumstances. Eviction protections are now only available to renters if they had applied for state rental assistance where an application for rent relief was submitted on or before March 31, 2022. As previously noted, these protections; however, are set to expire on June 30, 2022.

Accordingly, effective April 1, 2022, only some renters remain protected. Those renters include: • Renters whose tenancies started prior to October 1, 2021, and • Renters with applications for rental assistance that were submitted on or before March 31, 2022, and • Renters who are awaiting either approval or payment from the rental assistance program.

These renters are protected from eviction for non-payment of rent due prior to April 1, 2022. For renters with past due balances, who do not have a pending rental assistance applications, housing providers must serve the appropriate non-payment notice, “Three-Day Notice to Pay Rent or Quit.” Renters who do not cure the notice within the required period can be evicted. For the period of April 1, 2022, through June 30, 2022, there is a new “Three Day Notice to Pay Rent or Quit” that contains special language mandated by Assembly Bill 2179 as follows: “NOTICE FROM

THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA: If you completed an application for government rental assistance on or before March 31, 2022, you may have protections against eviction. For information about legal resources that may be available to you, visit lawhelpca.org.”

Members who need the proper forms, please use our the EBRHA forms library. Members from Alameda County and Oakland will find additional forms for those regions as well as the one for Contra Costa, which is already available on EBRHA forms page.

Daniel Yukelson is currently the Executive Director of The Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles (AAGLA). As Certified Public Accountant, Yukelson began his career at Ernst & Young, the global accounting firm, and had served in senior financial roles principally as Chief Financial Officer for various public, private and start-up companies. Prior to joining AAGLA, Yukelson served for 12 years as Chief Financial Officer for both Premiere Radio Networks, now a subsidiary of I-Heart Media, and 3 years for Oasis West Realty, the owner of the Beverly Hilton and Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills where he was involved with the development and construction of the Waldorf.