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I’ll try to keep this brief. I’m a new renter moving to NYC. I had intended on rooming with a friend but she has poor credit history. I would like to lease the apartment alone and rent out the second room to her. Would this be considered subletting?
Hello, am hoping to get some feedback on this because I can’t find it specifically addressed in rent laws. We finally convinced our landlord that it is against the law to come into the property when we are not home and that it is inappropriate for them to be sending us emails telling us that […]
My landlord is a self proclaimed master gardener. To be fair, the front and back yards are beautifully landscaped. However, she is constantly harassing me about the upkeep of the yards. I mow the grass every week, and water daily. I also weed, rake, sweep etc. this is all what I would consider normal maintainace […]
Hello, My name is Flo. I am 19 years old and just moved out of my parents house in February:] It’s now the beggining of June and i feel like I’m doing pretty well on my own! I moved into my apartment complex on the 9th day of it being officially open. Brand new apartments […]
I am GM of a large brand hotel. Our ex landlord went on the website of the hotel and filed a complaint about my staff and myself. Fortunately the resident relations department of the corporate office sends the complaints to me for follow up. This was an email complaint, The ex landlord is pretty stupid […]
I am renting a freestanding house in Mississippi. My landlord expects me to pay a water bill but is not ready to provide me the bill or even a copy. I have no problem to pay water bill but told him that I want a copy. He said I have no right to a copy […]
My sister who lives in the UP of Michigan with her husband and three boys (18, 8 and 3 years old) had their hot water explode on Saturday, November 20 and was informed it would not be replaced until today, Wednesday, November 24. The weather conditions are cold, it snowed yesterday… What is the legal […]
I live in a apartment complex now for about 4 months, the rent includes my covered garage. I am frustrated because people almost daily park infron of my garage. the complex is compact by the garages, and every visitor will park his car infront of the garages. Now I have informed the land lord about […]
I just moved in 3 weeks ago and have issues with the Record Store across the street. They play extremely loud music about 8 hours a day from a speaker that is on the sidewalk and facing my apartment. I work nights so the noise is disturbing my sleep. And the days that I work […]
Hi, I moved into a my apartment and asked the property manager about pets and he said we could have a zoo if we wanted it, so we got a couple of cats and a dog, there is nothing in our lease saying that we need to pay a pet deposit on it, the landlord […]