Rental Application Criteria (revised 7/29/19)

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Rental Application Criteria (revised 7/29/19)

Every person who applies to live at a Lawrence Investment Co. LLC managed apartment complex is treated fairly and on an equal basis regardless of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, handicap, familial status, marital status or source of income.

Every person over the age of eighteen (18) years of age must complete a separate application and qualify individually. Unfavorable information for any applicant will result in denial of all applications in that group. Screening fees are nonrefundable. No co-signers will be accepted.

Maximum occupancy of no more than two (2) persons per bedroom.

CREDIT HISTORY AND PERSONAL INFORMATION

Upon receipt of a completed application and a non-refundable screening fee, Owner/Agent will conduct a search of public records to determine applicant's credit worthiness, prior rental history and personal references deemed necessary by Owner/Agent.

1. You must present current government-issued photo identification.
2. Gross verifiable legal monthly income should be equal to a minimum of two times stated rent. Income below two times the stated rent will result in denial.
• Currently employed applicants-must provide two (2) months most recent pay stubs or letter of employment.
• Social Security/Disability Income applicants-must provide verification of disability income, state income, savings, or retirement income.
• Self-employed applicants-must provide proof of income through copies of the previous two years' tax returns.
• Full-Time Student applicants-must provide proof of current student status, financial aid letter and/or current bank statements with balance of 5X the monthly rent.
• Unemployed applicants-must provide current bank statement with balance of 5X the monthly rent.
• Section 8 or Housing Assistance Program recipient applicants-must provide proof of voucher, estimated voucher rent portion and must demonstrate income that is 2x their portion of the rent.
3. You must have at least one year of verifiable rental history thru a landlord reference and or a mortgage history. Previous Landlord comments can be considered against an applicant. Rental history reflecting past due and unpaid rent or damages may result in the denial of the application. Non-third-party rental references will be considered if all other areas of the criteria are met.
4. Bankruptcies discharged more than one year ago, judgements and collections (not related to medical expenses) will be reviewed. Written proof of payment required for judgements and collections.
5. Five years of eviction-free history is required. Eviction actions that were dismissed or resulted in a judgment for the applicant will not be considered.
6. Your behavior during the application process will be considered.
7. Inaccurate, incomplete or falsified information will be grounds for denial.
8. Any applicant currently using illegal drugs will be denied. If approved for tenancy and later illegal drug use is confirmed, eviction shall result.
9. Any individual whose tenancy may constitute a direct threat to the health and safety of any individual, the complex, or the property of others will be denied tenancy.

Owner/Agent will conduct a search of public records to determine whether the applicant or any proposed resident or occupant has a "conviction" (which means charges pending as of the date of the application; a conviction; a guilty plea or no contest plea), for any: drug-related crime; person crime; sex offense; crime involving financial fraud, including identity theft and/or forgery: or any other crime if the conduct for which the applicant was convicted or is charged is of a nature that would adversely affect property of the landlord or a tenant or the health, safety or right of peaceful enjoyment of the premises of residents, the landlord and the landlord's agent. Owner/Agent will not consider a previous arrest that did not result in a conviction or expunged records.

If applicant, or any proposed occupant, has a conviction in their past which would disqualify them under these criminal conviction criteria, and desires to submit additional information to Owner/Agent along with the application so Owner/Agent can engage in an individualized assessment (described below) upon receipt of the results of the public records search and prior to a denial, applicant should do so. Otherwise, applicant may request the review process after denial as set forth below, however, see item (c) under "Criminal Conviction Review Process" below regarding holding the unit.

A single conviction, guilty plea or no contest plea or pending charge for any of the following, subject to the results of any review process, shall be grounds for denial.

1. Felonies involving murder, manslaughter, arson, rape, kidnapping, child sex crimes, or manufacturing or distribution of a controlled substance.
2. Felonies not listed above involving: drug-related crime: person crime: sex offense; crime involving financial fraud, including identity theft and forgery; or any other crime if the conduct for which applicant was convicted or is charged is of a nature that would adversely affect property of the landlord or a tenant or the health, safety or right of peaceful enjoyment of the premises of the residents, the landlord or the landlord's agent, where the date of disposition has occurred in the last 7 years.
3. Misdemeanors involving: drug related crimes, person crimes, sex offenses, domestic violence, violation of a restraining order, stalking, weapons, criminal impersonation, possession of burglary tools, financial fraud crimes, where the date of disposition has occurred in the last 5 years.
4. Misdemeanors not listed above involving: theft, criminal trespass, criminal mischief, property crimes or any other crime if the conduct for which applicant was convicted or is charged is of a nature that would adversely affect property of the landlord or a tenant or the health, safety, or right of peaceful enjoyment of the premises of the premises of the residents, the landlord or the landlord's agent, where the date of disposition had occurred in the last 3 years.
5. Conviction of any crime that requires lifetime registration as a sex offender will result in denial.

Criminal Conviction Review Process

Owner/Agent will engage in an individualized assessment of the applicant's, or other proposed occupant's, convictions if applicant has satisfied all other criteria (the denial was based solely on one or more convictions) and:

1. Applicant has submitted supporting documentation prior to the public records search: or
2. Applicant is denied based on failure to satisfy these criminal criteria and has submitted a written request along with supporting documentation. Supporting documentation may include:
   1. Letter from parole or probation office;
   2. Letter from caseworker, therapist, counselor, etc.;
   3. Certification of treatment/rehab programs;
   4. Letter from employer, teacher, etc.;
   5. Certification of trainings completed;
   6. Proof of employment: and
   7. Statement of the applicant.

Owner/Agent will:

1. Consider relevant individualized evidence of mitigating factors, which may include: the facts or circumstances surrounding the criminal conduct; the age of the convicted person at the time of the conduct; time since the criminal conduct; time since release from incarceration or completion of parole: evidence that the individual has maintained a good tenant history before and/or after the conviction or conduct; and evidence of rehabilitation efforts. Owner/Agent may request additional information and may consider whether there have been multiple convictions as part of this process.
2. Notify applicant of the results of Owner/Agent's review within a reasonable time after receipt of all required information.
3. Hold the unit for which the application was received for a reasonable time under all the circumstances to complete the review unless prior to receipt of applicant's written request (if made after denial) the unit was committed to another applicant.

If there are multiple convictions, guilty pleas or no contest pleas on the applicant's record, Lawrence Investment Co. LLC may increase the number of years by adding together the years in each applicable category.

All applications are screened through Pacific Screening. Their phone number is 503-297-1941.

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Dean Takahashi

 

1 year ago

Left to right: LA Valiant's Scott "Custa" Kennedy; Greg Milken; Overwatch cosplayer; Michael Milken; EJ Lee Milken.

Image Credit: Lionsgate/Betsy Newman

The 4,000 or so investors and VIPs who attended the Milken Global Conference this week heard sessions about luxury brands, avoiding war in North Korea, investing in China, cryptocurrency and blockchain, tax cuts, cannabis, and the global entertainment business opportunities. But the super-rich also listened to sessions that I moderated on esports and gaming breaking into mainstream culture, as well as another session on how to be an esports team owner.

Michael Milken, the creator of the conference and financier, is an investor along with his son Gregory in the esports team Immortals. Film studio Lionsgate, which made The Hunger Games, held a reception on the roof of a swanky hotel in Beverly Hills ahead of the Milken event, and it highlighted for me how Los Angeles has become the epicenter for the esports … uh, call it what you want. The phenomenon. The explosion. The overhype. The gold rush. The bubble.

Global esports revenues will grow 38 percent to $906 million in 2018 and further grow to $1.65 billion by 2021, according to a new annual report on esports by market researcher Newzoo. Esports is less than 1 percent of the revenue of the $137.9 billion global games business. But it is the shiny new thing. I’m writing stories every week about esports, much like a year or two ago I was writing every week about virtual reality investments and startups. Gaming and esports has its own specialist investors, like Gregory Milken, managing director at March Capital Partners.

Above: Esports panel at Milken event, left to right: Steve Cohen of AEG, Ann Hand of Super League Gaming, Dean Takahashi of GamesBeat, Ramon Hermann of Tencent, Nate Nanzer of Overwatch League, and Kent Wakeford of Gen.G.

Image Credit: Lionsgate

Steve Ballmer, the former CEO of Microsoft, appeared at the event and talked about his $2 billion purchase of the LA Clippers NBA basketball team in 2014. But was Ballmer too late to the NBA party, and did he choose the wrong sport? About the same time that Ballmer was getting up to speed on the Clippers, Noah Whinston, a young man still in his early 20s, was dropping out of college and getting billionaires like the Milkens and AEG CEO Phil Anschutz to back Immortals and its new Overwatch League team, Los Angeles Valiant.

Fast-forward just a couple of years, and Whinston is an old-timer. And moguls were present at Lionsgate’s event, which featured Overwatch cosplayers, actresses like Alison Haislip, and L.A. Valiant player Scott “Custa” Kennedy.

Launched in January, Blizzard’s Overwatch League has been drawing growing viewership in the millions of spectators per week, and the league is now in negotiations to add expansion teams for later this year.

Among those who have invested in esports via the Overwatch League are Jeff Wilpon, cofounder of Sterling VC and chief operating officer of the New York Mets; Robert Kraft, chairman of the Kraft Group and owner of the New England Patriots; Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer and Lionsgate executive Peter Levin; Andy Miller, chairman of NRG Esports and co-owner of the Sacramento Kings NBA team; and Kevin Chou, former CEO of mobile game company Kabam.

Not only is the money going into teams. It’s going into venues, ranging from 400 seats to 18,000 seats, said Steve Cohen, executive vice president at Anschutz Corp. and chief strategy officer at AEG, which owns Staples Center among many other entertainment venues. There are multiple layers of investments happening to enable the whole esports ecosystem to mirror traditional sports infrastructure, said Kent Wakeford, cofounder of Gen.G (formerly KSV Esports).

Above: Esports team owner panel, left to right: Noah Whinston of Immortals, Ari Segal of Immortals, Stephanie Snowden of The Ringer, Barney Waters of K-Swiss, Andy Miller of NRG eSports, and Shawn Sanford of Microsoft.

Image Credit: Lionsgate Games

These people were mingling among the investors attending the event at the Beverly Hilton hotel, where the Golden Globe awards are held each year. The hotel was on lockdown, with tight security. Bigwigs were moving through the halls, including Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary, cofounder of SoftKey and O’Leary Funds; Tony Blair, former British Prime Minister; House speaker Paul Ryan; former U.S. Vice President Al Gore; and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin. I was the imposter among them, as my ticket was my knowledge about video games and esports.

Just yesterday, the New York Times ran a long article on how players spent more than 128 million hours on Twitch watching people play Fortnite. It noted how we are seeing a shift in demographics, where traditional media is failing to reach millennials, who are spending their time engaging with games and watching those who are skilled at playing them.

All of this must mean, for the skeptics among us, that esports has jumped the shark. And maybe it’s time to throw a bunch of money back into virtual reality, which used to be the shiny new thing. Milken’s involvement is not necessarily a kind of Midas touch. There are those who remember that he had some history before doing such grand events. Milken was indicted for racketeering and securities fraud in 1989 in an insider trading investigation, and he pleaded guilty to securities and reporting violations. He was was sentenced to ten years in prison, fined $600 million, and permanently barred from the securities industry by the Securities and Exchange Commission. His sentence was later reduced to two years. Since that time, he survived prostate cancer and became a medical philanthropist. He has been running the Milken Institute think tank since 1991.

At my own panel, I pointed out that there aren’t a lot of people making money in esports yet, as Dennis “Thresh” Fong, the first competitive gamer, noted at our GamesBeat Summit conference in early April. While the numbers of esports spectators is impressive, they’re not spending like traditional sports fans yet. In 2017 the average esports fan spent $4.58, while NBA basketball fans spend, on average, $15 each. And Newzoo said the global average annual revenue per esports enthusiast will be $5.49 in 2018.

Cohen said it’s early, as this decades-old industry of esports is still in its infancy. And that’s true. The ecosystem for providing sustainable leagues is only falling into place, said Ann Hand, the CEO of Super League Gaming, which provides a path to pros for amateur players. Ramon Hermann of Tencent noted that Riot Games has been seeding the universities with millions of dollars in scholarship money to get the equivalent of NCAA basketball going at colleges with its League of Legends games. 500 students are going to college now on League of Legends scholarships.

Above: Left to right: Peter Levin of Lionsgate, Aryeh Bourkoff of LionTree, Steve Cohen of AEG, and Jon Feltheimer of Lionsgate.

Image Credit: LA Party Photo

Give it time, and esports will start monetizing its hundred of millions of players and spectators in the same way the NBA does. One of the ways that will happen: Immortals has teamed up with sneaker designer K-Swiss to make an esports shoe for enthusiasts. Once the momentum starts going on video views, broadcast rights, merchandise sales, ticket sales, sponsorships, and advertising, the money should start rolling in.

It does feel like we’re witnessing the birth of a new sport. I’m starting to cover esports on a more regular basis, like a business page reporter at a daily newspaper, and I haven’t moved into covering it like a sports page reporter. On the sports page, you would read about your favorite stars, like Stephen Curry of the Warriors, and the equivalent celebrities in esports. We aren’t yet at the day where you can recognize an Overwatch star walking down the street, said Stephanie Snowden director of video strategy at The Ringer, a traditional sports publication.

But that day may be coming where the esports celebrities are going to become household names among consumers. I’d like to get a bird’s-eye view of what is happening, rather than focus on the small stuff. To paraphrase my old newspaper editor, I don’t want to write about sales of new cans of paint while the Italian Renaissance is happening. The esports renaissance is having its moment now, and I’d like to go back to the Milken event in a year to see where the super rich have placed their bets in this fledgling industry.

Disclosure: The Milken Institute paid for my accommodations at the event. Our coverage remains objective.

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A group of neighbors in San Francisco has had two dozen boulders placed along a residential road to deter people from camping out. (KTVU)

While the city's homelessness crisis has centered mostly around the Tenderloin district, other neighborhoods across San Francisco have also seen an alarming increase of homeless people in recent years.

Earlier this year, a preliminary count showed a 17 percent increase in the homeless population in the city from 2017. However, in that count San Francisco opted to use the federal definition of homelessness. If it had used the same measurement it has in years past, the numbers would show an increase from 7,400 to 9,784 – or 30 percent – in 2019.

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But homeless advocates call the boulders a cruel response and not a solution to the massive problem.

"There's actually a name for it. It's called anti-homeless architecture," Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the Coalition On Homelessness, told KTVU.

San Francisco police officers wait while homeless people collect their belongings in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

A San Francisco Public Works department spokeswoman told KTVU the city had no part in putting the boulders here, and since they aren't blocking the sidewalk, there are no plans to remove them.

San Francisco's homelessness crisis prompted President Trump to threaten last week to slap the city with Environmental Protection Agency violation notices, for allowing a tremendous amount of waste, including needles, to go through storm drains into the ocean.

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Breed added that the city is fighting homelessness by adding 1,000 beds to shelters and wants to pass a $600 million bond to build affordable housing and increase services for people with addiction and mental illness.

Homeless advocates on Monday said the immediate problem is that they are currently dealing with a lack of shelters.


"We have 1,200 people on the wait list for shelter. That's for tonight," Friedenbach told KTVU. "People have nowhere to go."

Fox News' Barnini Chakraborty and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

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