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Who is responsible for the extermination of bed bugs in an apartment dwelling in Rhode Island. The landloard or the tenant?
My apartment is a basement level unsecured (rest of the apartment has secured entry) apartment. Yesterday someone broke in by smashin the window on my front door. I called the landlord as soon as I discovered this at 9:45pm. He asked me if I had a board and screws to close it up and I […]
I’m not sure if my landlord is breaking any laws, but he is getting annoying. I’m certain my landlord is violating my tenant privacy rights. My problem is that my landlord agreed to do the yard work at our house which sounded good to me at first until, everyday when I come home from work he’s […]
We moved in an apartment in Sterling, VA, ~9 mo ago. We reported a bedbug infestation in Jan 2010, even though we had bites since we first moved in Oct/09, but we had no idea about bedbugs, hence long time until we figured out and reported. We paid for the treatment, even though one of […]
I have been here not even two years and its been a living hell,first is was high energy bills,come to find out it was bad wirering/took forever to fix,thousands of dollars later!On top of that there was a mold issue that they insisted that it was soap scum,go figure,I replied that it defenitly wasnt soap […]
i rcntly had a small kitchen firr which i was at fault for but when i went to usr my fire extinguisher it did not function properly. upon further inspection i found it hadnt been maintenanced in almost 2 yrs when state law requires maintenancing every year. is it possible to take legal action?
Hi! My husband and I have lived in the same apartment unit for 9 years.We will be moving out next month to our own place. The landlord sent us a letter with a long list of things we are expected to do at the move-out time. One such a thing is carpets cleaning but I am not […]
When we first moved in our Landlord said that our downstairs neighbor had a list of complaints against us for being noisy. Most of the claims we could prove weren’t us. The landlord had even said that she just likes to complain. We had recieved a letter from the landlord about the problem (which we […]
I have rented from Vintage Homes in Tyler texas. I beleive i have been cheated out of my security deposit. I did break my lease but i spoke with my landlord before i sent my 30 day notification, she agreed to return our full security deposit if the place was clean and rent was paid […]
me and my two children moved into our new apartment in june. as of right now i havent been living in my apartment in over 2 and a half months due to bed bugs. my 5 year old woke up one morning covered in bites. i asked my landlord to check for the bed bugs. […]