Kirk Bowerman:I just got back from the office of my apt complex. I spoke to the office manager who says they never received my rent check even though I put it in the hands of one of the office folk. I wrote out another check but he says I’m responsible for the late fees and […]

I am renting a commercial building that is an auto repair station the heat hasnt worked in over a week now. I have told the landlord about the problem which is a broken part on the burner he asked me to call around to see how much it would be to get fixed I did […]

I lve in New Jersey and the apartment I’m renting is attached to a restaurant.  I have my own furnace and water heater, but they’re loacated in a room in the back of the restaurant and I have no access to my electrical fuse panel or the Emergency furnace/water heater shut off switch (it’s natural gas).  […]

our manager at our complex has been avoiding us we had an appointment to sign our new lease and he was out of town we have a letter from back in feburary that if we signed a new lease our rent would not go up we are getting close to our dead line and fear […]

i first came across the bed bug problem about two weeks ago.. i immediatlu contacted the building management and then my landlord my landlord took about a week before he took care of the problem. it has now been two wesks and i.noticed that the treatment my landlord used didnt work and i still have […]

By the time a tenant signed a lease agreement, he is now bound to the lease. Many landlords often ask or hire a lawyer to draft all their lease agreements for their tenants. Any signed lease agreements can be disbanded if the landlord and the tenant can come up with a mutual understanding. The only […]

Holding deposit is the amount of money a tenant pays the landlord to take a rental unit off the market up until the time the tenant moves in. Typically this happens when a tenant sees a prospective unit he likes but is unable to move in right away. In order to secure the unit for […]

So we were told at the beginning of our lease that all utilities would be payed for. 8 months later we are told we owe $1,635 to the electric company for 8 months of electric bills. we recieved no notice or bills to our apartment and our landlord who told us it would be covered […]

On March 28, 2013, I signed a lease with a couple whose house I wanted to rent. I paid an earnest money contract on the home to hold it in the amount of $100 and then paid an additional $2,400 for rent and deposit. The move-in date was scheduled for April 15. I never moved […]

my a/c is not working is the landlord responsible for maintaining the unit?