Lifetime Lease Requirement

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The Ninth Circuit <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/lifetimelease.pdf"><strong>upheld</strong></a> the dismissal of a suit challenging San Francisco’s Expedited Conversion Program, which lets owners of “tenancy-in-common” properties convert them into condominiums on the condition that existing tenants are offered lifetime leases. The owners failed to timely seek an exemption from the lifetime lease requirement, the court ruled. </span>

SAN FRANCISCO – The Ninth Circuit upheld the dismissal of a suit challenging San Francisco’s Expedited Conversion Program, which lets owners of “tenancy-in-common” properties convert them into condominiums on the condition that existing tenants are offered lifetime leases. The owners failed to timely seek an exemption from the lifetime lease requirement, the court ruled.

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