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My (ex) girlfriend and I signed a lease Dec 2010 to Nov 2011. I paid rent in advance from Dec 2010 to March 2011. At the beginning of March, she let her brother move in without paying rent. I left and told her when her brother left I would come back. In order for me […]
We have been living in our house that we rent for 4 years. When I paid our rent, our landlord didn’t say anything. Three days later, she calls me and said that her nephew is interested in buying the house we live in because he’s getting married in May and that he’s been interested for […]
My son and 3 friends leased an apartment near campus. When they toured the apartment, the landlord assured them he would have it professionally cleaned before they moved in. The tenants at the time were big partiers and the apartment was a mess, with clutter all over effectively hiding the true condition of the apartment. […]
Please help! My fiancée and I moved into a new apartment together in May 2010. Ever since, it has been a horrible experience with problem after problem. In the first week at the new apartment, we had mice in the walls and ceiling of the apartment. We discussed the problem with our apartment leasing office numerous times. […]
The neighbors above my apartment had a bed bug problem, and a month later we discovered the bugs in my apartment. The landlord would not let us hire our own pest control company, she forced her company on us and charged us $350 for the service. We have since discovered that the pest control company […]
I just moved into my new apt last weekend, my landlord has been hanging around doing property improvements which is fine, but he is very rude to anyone comes to my home, is this legal and what should I do?
In November, near holiday season my husband and I fell 2 days behind on paying our rent. Our landlord shoved her way into our home and refused to leave until rent was paid. This lead to a verbal confrontation with my husband. The verbal turned phsyical, she began poking him repeatedly in the chest demanding […]
A couple of my friends and I unfortunately fell into a horrible rental situation while at school. Basically, we were short on time and all 5 of us were looking for a lot of different things that a lot of the apartments in the neighborhood didn’t offer. Anyways… We ended up at this apartment that […]
Is there a place I can see my renters credit rating? If I have any evictions (My lease was up and they told me to leave because of my pets) but thern later on I was told I didn’t leave a notice.
My husband and I just moved into our new place of residence in May of this year. It is the upper level of an upper and lower duplex. Our landlord is an older woman, probably in late 60’s to mid 70’s. When we viewed the place before we moved in, she was anxious to get […]