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I have a question. My rent is $600.00. On 2/5/13 I prepaid my rent for the amount of $2400.00, to the property management my landlord at the time dealt with. I recently found out that on 2/22/13 the property had been sold. My new landlord is holding me responsable for the rent that I […]
I just learned of this great new program for renters. This company monitors your property for a small fee of $39.95 per year and informs you by email when a foreclosure, or bankruptcy filing is made against your rental. It’s really great! I know what’s going on before I give up my hard earned money.
If you check the state and local laws all over the United States you can find it written there the different responsibilities of a landlord and tenant to the rental unit/property and also the area around the rental unit/property. Here is the list of the responsibilities of a landlord: Offer Basic Living Requirements. This is […]
There are quite a few kinds of landlord you can deal with while renting a place to live. One of the most common is bad landlord. This kind of landlord is an incredible source of both stress and hassle to the tenant. Here are some tips on how to deal with bad landlords. Put everything […]
I am having some major problems with my property management company. There are a few VERY dangerous trees in my front and back yard. I cannot give a professional evaluation of each and every tree but even I can see that some are rotting. A few of the trees are starting to lose HUGE branches. […]
So here is the situation. I moved into an apartment last August with two other roommates and around October one of my roommates was finding bites on her body. This persisted until January when she saw an actually bed bug. we called our landlord and they immediately took care of the problem and informed us […]
I always pay my rent early and I also over pay. I had a credit of 749.00 over so I paid for half the month of feb of 379.00 and owed 274.00. So they were supposed to take that from my credit of 749.00 but they took the whole thing then said i owed a […]
My shower door busted. i have NO idea how. I thought it was from the extreme heat my apartment holds and i was out of town for the weekend, came home and found it shattered. Apparently this is unreasonable, and my landlord wants to charge me for the damage. OK fine, but my uncle is […]
Here’s a serious concern that I have about my apartment complex. After moving into my apartment complex I decided to check online one day to see if there were any convicted sex offenders living in the apartments. There were none listed. This was several months ago. So a couple of days ago I was talking […]