I have a notarized lease in MY name and landlord agreed that I allow a friend to be sole occupant of the rented property. I am trying to protect my friend from his abusive parents. He is 18 and a legal adult. Do I have the legal right to keep the parents off the property? […]

After leaving my previous address, I expected a full refund of the security deposit.  I contacted the landlord about returning keys and doing a walkthrough inspection but received no reply.  Two weeks later, I emailed about the deposit and again received no response.  Same thing a month later.  Finally, one of my former roommates got […]

I signed a one year lease for a two bedroom apt in the Los Angeles area and its been six weeks and my landlord still has not given me a copy of my lease. I’ve emailed him a couple of times about all the broken things in the apt (a/c broken, all the screens on […]

I co-signed a 12-month lease with my son and daughter. The home had a swimming pool which we have to carry a 1/2 million dollar policy on. The landlord found that prior tenant had torn liner and other stuff did not work. She hired someone to get estimate on repairs. In July property manager called […]

We recently moved into a new apartment that was infested with bed bugs. We had a house inspector inspect the apartment, and consulted an entomologist, both agreed that the level of infestation observed in the apartment unit requires at least several months to occur (We had only been in there for 1 week, and had […]

   can a landlord charge a renewing tenant more than market rent (the amount that a new person moving in) just because you renewed your lease?

I have been living in my small 2-bedroom apartment for over 4 years. My husband and I decided to move. We found the perfect place for our daughter to have some play space. We found a condo that meet our needs and budget. I checked out the condo and found out the condo went into […]

I moved out the last day of 1 year lease and gave forwarding address to my landlord on the 4th of following month stating where to send the security deposit and that property was vacated. it has been 35 days and I got no information to refund or letter stating why deposit is being kept. […]

I finished my walk through with my rental agency – and after shampooing the carpets and touching up walls and leaving it better then when I originally rented it…  They stated that it is policy to charge $30 to clean the unit and they will clean the door jams, and windows, and oven.   When […]

My roommate and I signed a 12 month lease. At the end of 10 month my roommate has decided to break a lease because she does not have a job and cannot afford to pay rent. We have tried to the speak to the landlord to come up with an amicable solution but they are […]