The other day, after returning from college, I came home to my bathroom window in the back of my house. I notified the landlord and the police and got a case number. I live in a one bedroom house. My landlord has yet to fix the window and is trying to charge me for the […]

Can the apartment complex force tenants to have personal renters insurance.

Have you ever heard of a landlord not allowing guests in the apartment? Well I have because it personally happened to me. So here’s my story: I rented a room in my landlord’s home. We had a lease agreement for a year but after that, we were on month-to-month. I understand that the old lease […]

Security is always the first concern, whether you are renting a house, apartment, room or condo. Standard exit procedures include that the previous tenant return all the keys to the rental property but there are instances when the keys are not returned. To be safe, most landlords just change the locks every time a tenant […]

I am disabled, and suffer from a severe PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and a TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury: from a 3 yr really bad relationship in which abusive ex-boyfriend was beating me in the head frequently, and then almost every day during over the last year we were together, culminating in a vicious attack that broke my nose & ribs & fractured the […]

Today I went to the office to resolve an issue with my account, I got there and asked for the leasing agent that I always deal with and is familiar with the issue in question.I was told by the assistant manager that he was gone for the day,then I said I would come back the […]

Hello Everyone, How I got here: I lost my job in 2011. After 2 months of trying to meet my rental obligations with unemployment and at this point no job yet. I got hired but my income was 50% less than what i was previously making. I advised my landlord I would have to vacate […]

Our landlord has broken our lease agreement by evicting us so that she could move back into the property. Wondering what legal recourse we have available?

I lived in a property for 2 years 6 months and my husband’s job relocating us to another state so we were forced to move.  We gave the landlord thirty days notice in writing as well as verbally.  The property manager came to the property two weeks before we moved to do a brief walk through and […]

I need advise. How valid is this one sided Bed Bug addendum in the lease agreement which states that renter has responsibility to inform landlord if bugs detected, not treat themselves, accept treatment specified by landlord and pay all charges? This is an unfair one sided agreement. They had to do 4-5 treatments and my […]