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My old Apartment had some stains on the carpet (my toddler split juice) and during move out checking the apartment manager told me that if they cannot take out the stains they will onl replace a part of the carpet. There were 3 stains in the entire apartment so this mornign she called me and […]
My landlord in MAKING me pay for satellite TV as part of my rent. I don’t need Satellite TV. Is this legal?
can i refuse to pay rent if my landlord doesnt take care of the infested roaches in my house. they were here since we moved in and they multiplied. i want to ask him if he would take care of it but if he doesnt i want to know my rights. can i refuse to […]
I have a problem with my landlord. I just found out that the house I am living in is in foreclosure and my landlord didn’t tell me until the last minute stating that I had until the end of the month to get out. Well he also wanted this month rent which I have but […]
Is the tenant responsible for paying a $3000 septic tank (pumping) bill?
A landlord kept my deposit and first months rent even though I never signed the lease, can he do this? How do I get my security deposit back? I refused to sign the lease because the property was not as he had describe it.
I recently moved into a really nice apartment complex only to find out that my unit was infested w/ bed bugs. I complained to the managers and they were nice enough to pay for the pest control treatment. Unfortunately, the treatment did very little to help in the killing all of the bed bugs. A […]
We signed our lease March 14 2012. After living here for a month, we received our first utility bill which was over $400.00. I contacted the power company. The house has a basement apartment which is the same size as the house we are renting. The landlords did not disclose to us in the lease […]
I have lived in a rental house for 4 weeks now, for the past 3 weeks the basement has gone from being damp to flooding 3 times. Right after I moved in we found the basement "bedroom" that I believe they put in without a permit or anything had wet carpet. It slowly went from […]
Hi, I live in an apartment building in massachusetts. I live in a one bedroom first floor apartment on a month to month rental agreement. I’ve been wanting to move into a two bedroom apartment in my building and when on is available my landlord told me that she doesn’t allow tenants to move from […]