I have a roommate who is on the lease with my girlfriend and I.  She has been there for over a year and a half.  Since August she has not held up on her end of our lease that she would pay for the internet and cable bills and we pay all other utilities.  This […]

The first week I moved in I noticed some roaches coming out and a bad sewer smell coming from the master back bathroom. I was trying to figure out the smell because I was worried what it was and I pulled up to the house after work and was pulling the trash cans up to […]

in a nutshell, my landlord emailed me saying he was coming to check out the house.  This was fine, however i was leaving for vacation the day he wanted to come.  I immediatly emailed back, saying i was leaving that day, and asked if he could come in the AM.  He never replied, so i […]

I signed a lease with the landlord that stated I wont get a mailbox key(big mistake). The lease expired 2 years ago and I’m still renting from him. I’m in a tough financial situation that’s putting things on hold as far as moving goes. My question is, now that the lease expire, what legal rights […]

I have been living in my apartment for about 3 years now. My landlord is elderly and she only comes around to ‘clean’ up the apartment from the 1st to the 5th so that she can collect rent as well. The apartment complex is quite small, 5 apartments in all, but the maintaince is never […]

Section 8 of the Housing Act of 1937 allows for the payment of rental housing by the government in behalf of the estimated 3.1 million low income families.  It is an umbrella of several government services that aim to assist low income families and prevent them from living on the streets.  One of the most […]

These days, more and more landlords are requiring their tenants to get renter’s insurance. This shift in the renting process is molding the way landlords and tenants interact prior to establishing tenancy. However, tenant applicants are not the only ones affected the renter’s insurance requirement, existing tenants may also be asked to get the insurance […]

The problem with signing a lease is that it keeps you in one place for a year. And believe it or not, circumstances just push you to break your lease and go. That’s what happened to me. When I didn’t sign a lease (with my old apartment), I stayed there for 7 years – there […]

My roommate and I moved into our apartment 3 months ago, and now we almost certainly have bed bugs. Shortly after we moved in, she began to ocassionally get small bites on her body while sleeping. This went on until 3 weeks ago, when we both started getting more numerous bumps on our bodies which […]

I have been renting a house with 1 & 1/2 baths.  One month ago several of the tiles in the bathroom shower fell out and we notified the landlord / property manager, he came & inspected the tiles and reported the issues to the property owners.  4 weeks later they started removing the tiles for […]