In Jaramillo v. JH Real Estate Partners, Inc. (2003) 111 Cal.App.4th 394, the court held that Civil Code section 1953 precluded an arbitration provision in a residential lease, because such a provision would constitute a waiver of jury trial, one of the lessee's "'procedural rights in litigation.'" (Jaramillo, supra, at p. 404.) The court concluded, however, that "nothing in section 1953 precludes a tenant of residential premises and the tenant's landlord from entering into a separate agreement to arbitrate that is entirely independent of any lease agreement. Certainly, Civil Code section 1942.1 expressly authorizes a written agreement to arbitrate controversies 'relating to a condition of the premises claimed to make them untenantable.' We think that the most reasonable interpretation of section 1953, subdivision (a)(4), is that it establishes the general rule that a tenant of residential premises cannot validly agree, in a residential lease agreement, to binding arbitration to resolve disputes regarding his or her rights and obligations as a tenant." (Id. at p. 404.)