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I recently moved to Rhode Island. I was shown a place to rent (residential), and signed a 1- year lease. This was last week. After the lease was signed, I asked the owner if I could delay moving in (and starting of the rent) because of the movers, and Hurricane Sandy. I asked to delay […]
I’ve lived in the same 4-Plex apartment complex for approx. 12 years. During this time, almost every other tenant has been a relative, or good friend to the landlord or his wife. Guess you could say I’m an ‘outcast’…:) Currently, the other 3 apartments are rented by: 1) 2 Young men (approx. 20 yrs […]
My son(who’s 8) has had some street fights with other kids at the bus stop and came home the other day complaining that he’d been punched by another kid. my son went down to the bus stop the next morning and came back saying he’d been chased back. My husband then walked down to the bus […]
We have been renting our home for over 2 years now, and the roof started leaking last year. Now where the roof is leaking the walls are covered in black mold. the landlord has been told about this issue on more than 2 occassions. she told me to go buy the materials and fix it. she […]
Hello! First time poster here, so I hope you can bear with me. I am extremely frustrated with our landlord/apartment situation right now. Our lease isn’t up until July, so I’m hoping there is something that we can do. Each month we pay rent, a "utility surcharge", and for a parking spot next to the […]
I just moved in to my first apartment a month ago and found out a couple weeks ago that I have bed bugs due to my next door neighbors. This was OBVIOUSLY not my doing. The landlord is paying for extermination but from what I hear that doesn’t help much anyways. All I want to […]
I have an evictoin for 04-01-11 and there is no way i can move all of these things out by then. I don’t even get paid until 04-04-11. I have a coccygeal condition from a work related fall from september, 2009 which is the reason the house was foreclosed upon. I lost my full time […]
I signed a 6 month lease for an apt., private owner, but apt was in condo association. 4 months into the lease, i got locked out of the apt. when i went to the office to have them open my door, they said “who are you?? we dont have you listed as a tenant!!” They basically […]
What does it mean if my landlord got a score of 316 out of 900?
Is it legal for my apartment complex to take away my parking stall and assign it as handicap parking and then tell me to continue parking there because the person they had made it handicapped for is unable to move their vehicle from the stall they are reassigning it to? It has been marked with […]