Single Family Residences and Condominiums: Single family residences and condominiums are exempt from the Rent Adjustment Ordinance if the unit is rented as one single unit and not rented room by room for more than 30 continuous days (like a rooming house).

Oakland is one of 15 cities in California with rent control (Oakland Rent Adjustment Program or RAP). This means that the city regulates the amount that landlords are permitted to increase their rent. If you are covered under RAP, then: Your landlord can only raise your rent once every 12 months.

California Code of Civil Procedure 1161 requires, when a tenant is in default of rent, that an owner/agent prepare and serve a valid written three day pay rent or surrender possession notice.

In Oakland, most residential buildings constructed before 1983 are covered by rent control, aside from single-family homes and a few other exceptions. When new tenants move into rent-controlled units, the landlord is allowed to set the rent at whatever price they choose.

If your apartment is subject to the Oakland Rent Ordinance, then you have rent control in Oakland. That means that the landlord cannot raise the rent beyond the annual CPI increase rate for any given year. Tenants can only be given one increase in any one 12 month period.

Rent can only be raised once a year. Rent increases can only happen every 12 months after a tenant's move-in date or 12 months after the last rent increase. California law requires that tenants receive written notification 30 days in advance. For rent increases greater than 10%, tenants should receive 60 days' notice.