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I was not allowed to see the unit that I was to move into before hand and was told that it looked just like all the units that they showed me. Based on that information I signed a lease in August to move in on the 9th of October. I packed a few things to […]
I moved into an apartment building and found out after I signed the lease that it is full of section 8 tenants and most are real bad. I no longer want to live here. Can I get out of my lease if it wasn’t disclosed to me that their is Section 8 tenants in the […]
Hello, My lease will be up on January 18th of 2011 and I made the mistake of signing the new lease agreement. My wife and I have decided to rent a house, so I spoke with the property manager that I no longer want to renew my lease. According to her, once I signed, […]
I am a renter and my house is in foreclosure so I pay rent to a receivership who acts as my landlord and has taken over the lease. He will not repair a broken dishwasher and says this is my responsibility although I find no such thing in my lease except in cases of negligence […]
So I rent from a landlady who has a 20+ yr old delinquent daughter. The landlady cannot (or does not) want to deal with her daughter’s problems so the landlady moved her daughter right next to me and my fiance in our complex. This daughter siphons electricity and cable from the other tenants and from […]
I currently live in a two bedroom house. The only type of heat is a wood fireplace. Some of the windows do not close, open, lock, have no screens, and are broken with tape holding it together. The doors to the outside have a 1/2 to an 1 inch gap between the floor and the […]
We have bed bugs and want to file a complaint. We found the first one just two weeks after moving in, neither of us had had any before, none of our former roommates have any at either of the houses we lived in, all of our furniture was ours before we moved in, and we […]
My ex-husband, our son, and his then girlfriend were living in an apartment complex in Burleson that was income based. After living there for some time they moved out to a house she owned but had been in disrepair and was now livable. Within a few months the relationship fell apart and she kicked him […]
There is a widespread confusion on the what the 3-day notice is about. As a tenant, I would dread the day when my landlord will mail me a 3-day notice because I was a little delayed on the rent. But as it appears, a 3-day notice is only given as a reminder that a payment […]