Ten days before I was to drive to Montana from Minnesota, leaving my husband and my two little boys, my future landlord tells me that I have to sign a 6-month lease agreement and send the first month’s rent.  If I don’t, she will give the place to someone else.  She does not have photographs […]

More often than not, when a landlord has the resources to pay for renovations, he will renovate whether you like it or not. So, what are the repercussions when he does decide to renovate? Loss of privacy. While the renovations is on-going you as a tenant will have to open your house for the builders […]

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 […]

So my good friend is moving out of his house that he and some friends had been renting and his landlord is saying she is going to charge him for things that do not sound legit at all and I am hoping to get some answers for him as soon as possible.  1. She told […]

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 […]

When you have been renting an apartment for several years, household appliances (stove, refrigerator, dish washers, etc.) and furniture (coach, bed, tables, carpets) are bound to wear and tear. Now, when you decide to move out, how would you know what to pay for and what is normal wear and tear? Usually, after a few […]

“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 […]

I moved into this house because my son was not allowed to stay in the apartments that I was living in because he had a felony. So therefore I moved into this house. The landlord is an old man who just does not listen to reason. the agreement was that he would let me movi […]

Before you moved in, you were required to pay a security deposit. The security deposit, depending on how your lease agreement was worded, should take care of repairs and even the last month’s rent. In most cases, the security deposit will be equivalent to a month’s rent but if you live in those really classy […]