Books written by Janet Portman

  • First-Time Landlord: Your Guide to Renting Out a Single-Family Home

    And it may mean you_re about to be a first-time landlord. Follow the advice in this book to ease into your new role and earn substantial profits while avoiding costly mistakes. Learn your legal obligations. Estimate costs and profits.

  • Negotiate the Best Lease for Your Business

    With Negotiate the Best Lease for Your Business, entrepreneurs can proceed with confidence. This practical handbook explains how to analyze space needs and then go about finding the ideal location at the best price.

  • Leasing Space for Your Small Business

    All the information, advice & strategies you neet to evaluate commercial space; determine the real cost of renting; deal with landlords, brokers & lawyers; understand lease terms; negotiate advantageous terms and avoid common pitfalls.

  • Negotiate the Best Lease for Your Business. 2nd Edition.

    With Leasing Space for Your Small Business, entrepreneurs can proceed with confidence. This practical handbook explains how to analyze space needs and then go about finding the ideal location at the best price.

  • California Landlord's Law Book, The: Rights & Responsibilities

    Now in its 16th edition, this book has been recognized as a leading source of legal information for California landlords. It includes a detailed and updated review of state and federal laws and local rent control ordinances.

  • California Tenants' Rights. 16th Edition.

    Please note that this edition is now out of print and has been replaced by the 17th edition, also available through MyiLibrary .

  • The California Landlord's Law Book: Rights & Responsibilities

    No resource, in print or online, gives such detailed and practical information to California landlords and property managers who are subject to a large number of detailed state, local, and federal laws and regulations.

  • The California Landlord's Law Book: Rights & responsibilities

    Provides thorough legal and practical information, including dozens of forms, for landlords in California, in a new edition that explains the new utility-shutoff law and discusses how to terminate tenants when becoming the owner of a ...

  • Every Landlord's Legal Guide

    "The legal forms and state rules every landlord and property manager needs to keep up with the law and make money as a residential landlord, you need a guide you can trust: Every Landlord's Legal Guide.

  • California Tenants' Rights

    Here's all the plain-English information you need to protect your rights as a tenant in California.

  • Renters' Rights

    "This book on renter and tenant rights discusses topics such as how to break a lease and leave early, sublet an apartment, handle unwelcome landlord intrusions, resolve roommate disputes, get a landlord to make repairs, collect a full ...

  • Negotiate the Best Lease for Your Business

    Tenants are often handed a long, dense lease with incomprehensible language and told to just sign it. Even if they’re unable to negotiate better terms, they need to understand the rules that they’re agreeing to play by.

  • California Tenants' Rights

    Fortunately, California Tenants’ Rights, the leading tenant guide for more than 45 years, provides all the information and key forms tenants need to: find a good apartment in a competitive market learn whether you can be turned down ...

  • First-Time Landlord: Your Guide to Renting Out a Single-Family Home

    And it may mean you_re about to be a first-time landlord. Follow the advice in this book to ease into your new role and earn substantial profits while avoiding costly mistakes. Learn your legal obligations. Estimate costs and profits.

  • Negotiate the Best Lease for Your Business

    some How to Find a Real Estate Broker Finding your own broker isn't all that different from finding a good doctor, ... Look for tenants who appear to be running a healthy business (chances are that their good business sense was at work ...

  • Leases & Rental Agreements

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  • Leases & Rental Agreements

    Not only does this book contain instructions on how to tailor your rental documents to your state’s laws, it also gives you customizable versions of key rental forms you need, including: a fixed-term lease a month-to-month rental ...

  • First-time Landlord: Your Guide to Renting Out a Single-family Home

    Time Landlordprovides concise information for those with little business savvy and less time and patience to become big-time real estate investors, but who wish to make money on their new property while renting it out lawfully and right!

  • First-time Landlord: Your Guide to Renting Out a Single-family Home

    Shares concise information tailored to the needs of property owners with minimal experience and covers such topics as evaluating a property's profit potential, handling repairs, and managing problem tenants.

  • First-Time Landlord: Your Guide to Renting Out a Single-Family Home

    The 2nd edition covers renting out a house in or near foreclosure, renting out a room in a house where the owners still live, and lease-option-to-buy contracts (and when they are appropriate or risky)"--Provided by publisher.