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I am currently renting my 1 bedroom apartment for $795. I moved into my unit in April of 2007 under a 1 year lease. I am currently on a verbal month to month contract with my manager. I have recently found out that 1 bedroom apartments in my complex rent for $675 and 2 bedroom […]
What does the tenant do when the landlord refuses to accept written notices?
I have rented from my lanlord for a little more than three years and I have a wife and two kids. I had quit my job for personal reasons that I had worked for five years and began having problems paying. I told him right then that I didn’t think I would be able to […]
I have lived in a duplex for over 3 years. My landlord is for the most part pretty good as in, reasonable prices, fixes things reasonably well etc. However, it is obvious that he only rents to women. He has himself stated that men “change the dynamics”. When I moved in the tenants in the […]
We were given a three day notice to pay or quit when we were already on constructive eviction. There were pipes leaking in the bathroom, combined with poor ventilation, resulted in mold build-up. There was suffocating levels of secondhand smoke in my apartment, and exposed electrical wires. Then we found bedbugs in our bedroom. We […]
I am a college student living off campus. I will be moving out at the end of the term. My landlord is trying to rent to a new student before the end of the term. He is insisting that I show the apartment to any and all comers. He is a few hours away. When […]
I am a college student living off campus. I will be moving out of my current apt. at the end of the term. My landlord is anxious to get a new tenant lined up before the end of the term. He is a few hour away. He has asked me to show the apartment to […]
I’ve been living in my 2 bedroom apartment for 15 months. I have signed a lease to go through the end of December, 2009. About 2 weeks ago, my landlady sent a letter to me and my boyfriend (who doesn’t live with me… we’re not sure how she got his name and address) saying there […]
This is a house sectioned into apartments. My neighbors have recently been evicted because they haven’t been able to pay rent with one unemployed, the other having a part time job and an infant. The infant had a rash for the entire time she had been there (born about 6 months ago, they moved in a year ago), and […]
I have a tenant who was recently injured and is on the top floor and I do not have an elevator – the tenant is asking what I can do to help her get down the stairs – do I need to do anything – can I just have her move into another apartment on […]