Maximum tenant screening fee
Berkeley Municipal Code § 13.78; Cal. Civ. Code § 1950.6City law
A landlord may charge no more than the stated maximum screening fee for 2026.
Answers the question “What can they charge me to apply?”
The source
… 2026-10-01 22:35 UTC Tenant Screening and Application Fees | Berkeley Rent Board Skip to main content Skip to site search City of Berkeley Share Print Tenant Screening and Application Fees There are limits on the amount of and uses for tenant screening and application fees under state and local law. Screening Fee The maximum tenant screening fee for 2026 is $68.96 Landlords may use screening fees to obtain information about a prospective tenant like a consumer credit report. Prospective tenants should expect to receive a copy of their credit report within 7 days of receipt by the landlord, a receipt for the fee paid and an itemized list of any out-of-pocket expenses and time…
- Official law
- Open the official source
- Document
- D005, retrieved Oct 1, 2026
- Dates
- In force
- Status on Oct 1, 2026
- In force
What it depends on
- Covers
- The document summarizes state and local screening-fee limits.
- Key value
- $68.96 for 2026
- What you can do next
- Read the law at its official source
Audit trail
The model reads the law; code decides who it covers. The line between them stays visible.
Extracted by the model
What the model read from the source text, checked by code (the quote must appear word for word).
- Category
- Application fees
- Requirement
- A landlord may charge no more than the stated maximum screening fee for 2026.
- Key value
- $68.96 for 2026
- Effect
- protection_or_duty
- Quote found in source
- yes
- Confidence
- 90%
reasoning boundary
Decided by code
Deterministic: same rules, facts and date give the same answer.
- Jurisdiction: listed only for addresses whose state or legal city is CA-BERKELEY.
- Dates: no effective date in the text; treated as in force.
- Coverage: no building condition the data can test; conditions in words stay with the text.
As of Oct 1, 2026Engine run
Sources retrieved Oct 1, 2026.
Which buildings it reaches
All 250 sample addresses in California on Oct 1, 2026.
- 40 applies
- 210 not covered
Every dot is the rule engine’s result for that address. The larger dots are the example addresses listed below. 2 addresses have no coordinates and are counted but not drawn.
Decided by code for the example addresses
On Oct 1, 2026. Rules that don’t apply are left out.
- 1609 Addison St, Berkeley: Applies. Citywide Berkeley rule in force (Berkeley Municipal Code § 13.78; Cal. Civ. Code § 1950.6); no building condition in it excludes this address.