you know, when i founded the ppa, the professional property management association, about 24 years ago now, one of our founding philosophies was while there was a lot of things happening with rent control and new ordinances coming down one after another, it began to seem like property owners and tenants were adversaries. we tried to develop a philosophy that we don't have an adversarial relationship. we need good tenants to pay rent and pay the bills and they need good managers to take care of the building. that's our basic founding operation. professional management is something owners may have to start looking at because it is becoming a more complex business than it has ever been, new ordinances, a myriad of regulations. professional managers are constantly training themselves, are participating and dealing with effective tools and communicating with all the people that are here. so sometimes managers are an answer for owners who feel a little bit overwhelmed by the requirements that happen also because it kind of puts a -- takes some of the adversarial flavor between the owners and

. >> jeff martinez is here for lisa argen and abc has their own weather ppa-point p. >> breaking news and get on your phone or ipad. lots of weather going on out there. lots of clouds. drizzle and how about a beautiful shot from mount tam in high definition. sunrise getting ready to get underway at 6:30 officially. yesterday morning we saw the break in the clouds. it was just gorgeous and we are waiting for that to happen. marine layer sitting around 2500 feet and cloudy around the coast throughout much of the morning and much of the day today like yesterday. start out with clouds and fog but then things should clear out a little bit. sunshine and by the evening, clouds roll back in. pat degrees in oakland. we have 60s redwood city to livermore and san jose. definitely some light drizzle and patchy fog most areas and some of the fog spreading inland. that is going to be the case throughout the morning. cool just like yesterday. we'll see sunshine in the afternoon, really nice warmup on the way for your workweek. temperatures should be back up which the summer has been on the cool side

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the ppa may have had unintended facts on 401k saving. this is your chance. >> for those who are not familiar with the ac cro anymore or the initials pension protection agent of 2006, it was one of the things that after initial rulings from treasury and irs promoted automatic enrollment, alisha is referring to a point of view that very validly points out if you automatically enroll people into a plan, some may go with inertia instead of not participating otherwise, they would have at a higher level than the default contribution. maybe i would have contributed 6%, but the plans defated is 5%, so i do nothing, and i'm at 5% rather than 6%. that is a phenomena that some people call anchoring, and at harvard, they have pointed out that that also can happen when you automatically enroll people, but as bridget would enthusiastically agree you can address this readily by escalating the contribution level year to year. you can as dick sailor and others have suggested, every time someone gets a raise, give them an increase in the contribution auto

there was a recent article that indicated the ppa may have had unintended effects on 401 k saving.this is your chance. >> for those who are not familiar with the acronym pension protection act of 2006 was one of the things that after initial rulings promoted automatic enrollment, alicia's referring to a point of view that very validly points out that if you automatically enrolled people in the plan, some of them might go along with the notion. they would a participated otherwise at a higher level than the default contribution. radio i would have contributed 6%, but the plan defaulted -- maybe i would've contributed at 6%, but the plan defaulted at 5%. that is a phenomenon that some people called anchoring. and bridget major at harvard pointed out that that can happen when you automatically enrolled people. but as bridget would agree that you can address this by escalating the contribution level from year to year. you can, every time someone gets a raise, you can give them an increase in a contribution automatically, unless they want to do otherwise. so they do not see their take- h

there was a recent article that indicated the ppa might have had the unintended effects on 41 k savings. this is your chance. >> i am familiar with the acronym pension protection act of 2006 was one of the things that after initial release from treasury and irs promoted automatic enrollment. alicia is referring to a point of view that points out that if you automatically enrolled people in the plan some of them might go along with inertia even of not participating, they would have participated at our level than the deval contribution. maybe they would have been treated 6% but the plans a fall is 5% so i do nothing and i am in a 5%. that is a phenomenon that some people call ancoring people at a lower level. that also can happen when you automatically handle people. as bird would enthusiastically agree, you can address this very readily for escalating the contribution level from year to year. as others have suggested, every time someone gets a raise, you can give them an increase in the contribution automatically unless they want to do otherwise. so they don't see their take- home pay go