Tenant Rights Blog & Forum |
Welcome to the Tenant and Renters Rights Forum! As a tenant you have rights. This forum was designed to help you learn your renting rights. You can Ask new questions, Help other tenants by answering questions, or you can research previously asked rent questions. There are thousands of questions that have already been asked! The forum is 100% free and requires no login to participate. |
So my boyfriend and I agreed to rent his grandfathers house from the family ( each child had a hand in the deal since the house was left to them 5 people total). It took them 3 weeks to agree for us to rent it , previous to our move in the house had been […]
Is there a requirement that an apartment complex over a certain number of units in California must have an on site manager? If so how do you proceed to make it enforceable?
I’ve been renting this apartment for a year or so. When the year was due, they (the landlord) offered me to stay and they was going to reduce my rent and let me move out whenever just with a 30 days notice. Well, i want to move now, but apparently the switch from management […]
I’m out of work since January and not able to pay my rent the manager is telling me that to get out the contract that will be finih in October I have to pay $1500 my rent is $825.00 per month. I can’t find a job and I’m collecting unemplyment but is not enough. Can […]
My landlord knew that the toilet in the house was running all the time, I made him aware of it 5 months ago, every month my water bill is going higher. I called the city out to check for leaks, and they found nothing on their end! Then I contacted the LL again and told […]
I got divorced while renting the husband has not been on the premises for more then six months, My landlord says he will not return the deposit to me until he gets a letter from my ex authorizing this. Is that Illegal? or just Skummy?
We live in a two-storey apartment on 21st Street in Kenilworth, NJ. The tenant upstairs would be moving out at the end of August. Our landlord wants to make bathroom repairs on both the apartment upstairs and ours even though we are not requesting for it. His reason: he’s got a huge water bill. Our […]
hi! im mentally disabled and my psychiatrist wrote a letter saying its medically necessary that i move asap due to my disability. i read online that if a mentally disabled tenant doesnt feel safe in their own dwelling, they can break their lease. i also read that a judge does not like a landlord who […]
We moved into our apartment the first week of May 2011. Ever since we’ve moved in we have had nothing, but bug problems. It started with spiders, flying ants, moquitos, the occasional centipede which we had the apartment spray for. Now all of a sudden we’ve found bed bugs coming out of the light socket […]
I rent in an apartment that doesnot fix anything in the apartment I have been waiting for several month on a list of issue that have not been fixed. At one time I didnot have heat. I have heat now but have to burn it on hig to keep one room some what warm in this […]