Attempt to coerce a tenant to vacate with payments, threats, or intimidation

Offering you money to vacate the unit?

In Oakland, there are strong protections for tenants who are being offered Cash for Keys. The landlord has to give you pre-negotiation disclosures, a document with your rights regarding move out agreements (this right includes asking the landlord not to give you any offers to move out for 6 months and the right to rescind a move out agreement). Here is some information on a Tenant Move Out Agreement.

If you are covered under the Oakland Tenant Protection Ordinance you can sue your landlord for not respecting your desire to stay in the unit (and not take their money). Under the Oakland Tenant Protection Ordinance, your landlord is not allowed to offer you payment to move out more than once every six months if you ask them not to.