I have bad leak in ceiling for few montha now and landlord wanted to put tarp up as a fix but seems that would just sent water elsewhere.I hope I can move out without much of a notice and also not have to pay another penny before I move out. What is legal standpoint and […]

Is there a cap on a rent increase? I have a lease which is about to expire, currently pay $560, it will go up to $630 for another year lease, $670 for 9 months lease, $710 for 6 month lease or $898 for month to month. This seems to be an outrageous increase and I […]

hi I recently moved into my bfs apartment and we have a bug problem. (one of many problems) Roaches in particular everywhere…The land lord has been contacted several times and basically says they will send someone to spray…well they’ve sprayed 6 times at least over the course of 3 months and bombed the whole place […]

I have one other roommate. She is two months behind on her rent but has been paying every month. The landlord and her have agreed that she would pay the rent in summer when there is more work available. After they agree on this shortly after he will start asking about the rent and even […]

I think I may have brought bed bugs home from work. I rent a SF home with roommates. One of the clients recently has bed bugs, and in the past week or two I’ve noticed I’ve gotten bitten a lot at night.  Last week I did a major clean sweep of my room, vacuuming, cleaning […]

I am moving out of one apartment and was hoping to move into a place that I really liked. I am moving to avoid eviction. The prospective landlord faxed in a paper to my current landlord who in turn stated on the paper that our eviction processed have already started. Here’s the problem. My boyfriend […]

We moved into an apt in october 2011, two weeks later I found out we had cockroaches, they have had three exterminators in to try to resolve it! But in which it has made it worse and have found them spreading all over. Also landlord did not inform us of this problem when we firsted […]

On contact with the resideent manager we were asked to sign a blank copy of a rental/lease agreement and she would fill it in later as there was someplace she had to be. We trusted the manager as we had known her for a number of years. After signing and without our knowledge the monthly […]

Let me begin by quoting from my lease: "In addition, during the last 60 days of the term of the Lease, and during any period when Premises is being leased month to month, Landlord may also place a "for rent" or "for sale" sign in the yard or on the exterior of any dwelling on […]

Here’s my problem, I was leasing a home /boyfriend, I moved out when the lease was up in June, I verablly informed the owner that I was moving and he was staying. He never paid rent and so I just found out he was evicted, so I looked up his case in public record and […]