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They say the company that owns the building has stopped responding to requests for basic maintenance in recent months, since informing them that it will not renew their rental contracts.

This headache could become a thing of the past with a new bill in the California Legislature that, if approved, would require landlords to provide refrigerators and stoves in their rentals.

But there’s no time to waste, so Elliot puts the animal out of its misery with a tire iron and loads it into the trunk of their rental.

Less known is that the authority owns about 150 other rental properties, with a mix of market-rate and affordable units, mostly purchased in the 1980s.

Universal Pictures, for example, went as short as 17 days for many of its films before releasing them for premium digital rental.