Black mold is a very dangerous type of mold that can cause severe respiratory diseases and eventually, death. Having them growing on your apartment is not acceptable. If you do find one growing in your apartment, it is not necessary for you to move out immediately.  Here are some suggestions on what actions to take […]

Browsing through the internet, one can find a lot of cases that tenants complain about their initial deposit not returned by the landlord when they decided not to move in. Now, before we go ahead and file a complaint or a lawsuit against the landlord, let us remember that there are two sides of every […]

Ever since the concept of “renting” a house has been created, the issue of the landlord and the tenant going up against each other have been there. It has become part of the things you have to go through when having to rent or renting out. As a tenant myself, I have to put up […]

I am being charges $70-$80 extra every month for water, sewage and garbage (I have no washer hookup). Supposedly the complex divides their charges up evenly between tenants (there is no separate metering). How do I know I’m being charged fairly? All I have to go on is the notice they give me.

“We are renting in a bottom apartment as we are an old couple and could absolutely not make it through a whole flight of stairs anymore. We were doing fine the first couple of months but when people moved in at the apartments above us, everything went to hell. They have children running around and […]

Simple as possible using bullets Apt flooded on Feb 11, from water pipe that burst above our place renters insurance will replace our stuff have been living in apt without insulation since feb 11 area of flood has been un-useable due to lack of insulation and constant work by apartment people living without sheetrock on […]

I live in Seattle, been in the same apartment for almost four years. The black mold has emerged from behind paint and in our windows. My son is a preemie with lung issues. The landlord told me once the mold is our fault because there is too much moisture in the house, I should open […]

We stayed at Pakside Apartments on a 4 months lease, out of these four months bed bugs treatment was done twice in our apartment. Now we have been asked to pay the treatment charges after almost a month since we left the place. First treatment was done during 2nd month and second treatment was during […]

my boyfriend, daughter and myself has been renting this appartment for a year when my lease ended, i signed a new lease to tranfer into an apartment with washer and dryer hook ups. they said it would be ready on the first, when the first came around i tried to get the keys then they […]