We’ve owned a restaurant inside of a business building for years and in the last couple of years, the ventilation and fire suppression systems have not been working properly. Each year, when the food inspection division evaluates our premise, they note that we are in violation due to these systems not working properly and each […]

We moved in to our current rental house on october 1, 2011.  We are in the unfortunate place that we must break our lease for my husbands job.  We have given sufficient notice, and reviewed our lease agreement.  It doesn’t say much about breaking the lease other than that we must pay a $50 re-rental […]

About 2 years ago I moved into my apartment and signed a bedbug addendum. Recently I got infested and then treated. The property management group handled the entire process, then a few days later I get slammed with a $1600 bill. I asked the property management group if they had checked to see if other […]

Our heater is not functioning correctly; the thermostat is reading at or below 50 degrees (we cannot assess the exact temperature, as the unit is 20 years old and cannot read temperatures below this level, it could be much lower).  We have been complaining (via text and phone) to our landlord for two months and […]

            In the summer of 2009 my boyfriend and I broke the lease on our apartment. We gave over 30 days notice. In our lease it was clear that if we broke the lease we would owe an extra months rent ($740) as a penalty. We moved out and waited for the bill. (They […]

I just recently moved out of my very first rental…I was in the rental for 5 years.  When I moved in I had a young man do my walk through.  I saw all kinds of problems and issues, but again this was my first rental, he advised me not to worry about it so much […]

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I and my family moved into a home in May, come to find out in Sept the heat wasnt working.  I would call the landlord and he would come and do something and it would work for a few days then stop again.  Finally in November I began withholding 1000 per month as they had […]

M fiance and I have 2 boys (5+1). We were looking to move into a new apartment. We found an apartment that we were interested in. The lady told us she would hold it for us if we gave a deposit. We have her $800.00. When we went back to look at the apt again […]

Hi, what is the lot size requirement to legally rent a guest house in Los Angeles County?