Your landlord must give you 30 days' notice of a rent hike if your lease is periodic and month-to-month or less. You're entitled to 30 days' notice if the increase is 10 percent or less and 60 days' notice if it's over 10 percent for other lease types. Your landlord must use the lowest rent you paid over the last 12 months.
California has a relatively short time in which to enforce a valid mechanics lien. In California, it is required that a mechanics lien be enforced within 90 days from the date on which the lien was recorded. If this 90-day period passes without an action being commenced to enforce the lien, the lien expires.
For the decade after the judgment, the lien stays on the property unless it's paid off. At 10 years and one day, it disappears forever. There's no guarantee, though, that waiting 10 years will put an end to your lien problems. California law allows your creditor to renew her lien before the expiration date. As long as she repeatedly renews, the lien endures. When she renews the first time, she gets to add 10 years of interest to your debt as well.