The City of Richmond, California Now Requires Notices of Default to be Served on All Residential Tenants

What if Every City and County Had its Own Foreclosure Ordinance? UTA General Counsel Phil Adleson, Esq., explains that the City of Richmond, California’s Ordinance raises three major issues for default professionals. First, the notice of default provision is probably unconstitutional and preempted by state nonjudicial foreclosure law. Second, there are a number of practical problems that will result from the Richmond Ordinance. Third, if allowed to stand, this Ordinance will encourage other local governments in California to tamper with and supplement the California statewide nonjudicial foreclosure process; creating a Tower of Babel of nonjudicial foreclosure procedures.

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