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Hi, I paid a deposit and rent, but have not moved in. I did sign a lease, and I informed the Landlord that I was not going to be able to move in. Am I responsible for the entire lease payments it I have not moved in, and informed my landlord on the second […]
I work nights and I generally go to bed by 2pm at the latest. My AC went out and the handy man my landlord uses doesn’t get off work till 5pm so he can’t do any repairs till after that. I called him during the week and he explained about his job and I said […]
i have a year lease that ends 8.25.13. my landlord has informed me the house is going to be put up for sale to avoid foreclosure. can you sell a leased property and force tenant move out? (will be sold as single family home withOUT renters) landlord said there is no breach yet (might take […]
Our Landlord is living in India. He does not use a property manager here in the US. I have been responsible for taking care of all the maintenance, repairs and financing of repairs until the next month in which then I take it out of the rent. The house is getting to the point of […]
I live in Arizona and have been renting a mobile home from what I thought were caring people. My landlords own a small trailer park and some off property rentals. I happen to live in one of their off property trailers that I moved into because it had central air instead of window unit air conditioning and […]
I’m having a problem with my landlord and not sure if I should use the report landlord option or if I should use the file complaint option. What is the difference between the two? Is one better than the other? From what I can tell if I report my landlord it will just report the […]
I am renting in California, my signed lease ended and I was renting month to month or at will. I have been notified by a note on the door that if I do not sign a lease on Monday, my unit will be out on the market and rented to someone else. I have done nothing […]
2 days ago I saw my cat playing with something on the living room floor by a whole next to the heater, I went over to look and it was a bed bug. I killed it and taped if to a paper, and documented the time and day and where it was found. I live […]
Hi, I rented an apartment with move in date as April 8th and they gave me all the details of rent and lease terms and I paid the security deposit. Today they called me to sign some docs and they say that they did a mistake and that apartment is not available on April 8th […]
My landlord likes to fix things. The problem is – he has no idea what he is going. I have a door he put in an enclosed porch and it is just sitting there – in the frame with shims to keep if from falling in and out. He "fixed" the hot water heater but […]