My father was moved to asssited living in March due to medical conditions.  We cleaned his apartment extra thoroughly including cleaning the carpets 2 times and vacated the apartment early to give the landlord the opportunity to rent sooner.  My father’s landlord is attempting to charge damages above the security deposit amount my father paid.  [...]

My land lord requires that if you want to move something out of the apartment you book a freight elevator. I sold a sofa and tried to book the elevator. My landlord has refused to grant permission unless I come up with a notarized letter saying I am will be responsible for the rent for [...]

My shower door busted. i have NO idea how. I thought it was from the extreme heat my apartment holds and i was out of town for the weekend, came home and found it shattered. Apparently this is unreasonable, and my landlord wants to charge me for the damage. OK fine, but my uncle is [...]

I moved into my apt with a friend of mine back in Sept ‘08.  January we had our first complaint.  My roommate showered with music on (around noon on a Saturday).  We found a note on the door a few days later as a courtesy by our front office informing us there was a complaint.  [...]

Our lease was supposed to be up Sept 1, 08.  We bought a house so called her (and written notice) 30 days in advance we would be vacating the property 8-24 but would pay the whole month and not break the lease.  We met with her at the house on the 24th returned keys, she refunded [...]

We moved into an apartment in January 2009. Since day one of moving in we’ve had issues. We moved into a leaking dishwasher and a leaking bathroom faceut. The landlord fixed them both within a couple days. They did not have the dryer or washer that they said we would have. It took them over [...]

I want to live my deposit but my landlord doesn’t want me to stay that because he wants his rent.

I am currently renting my 1 bedroom apartment for $795. I moved into my unit in April of 2007 under a 1 year lease. I am currently on a verbal month to month contract with my manager. I have recently found out that 1 bedroom apartments in my complex rent for $675 and 2 bedroom [...]

What does the tenant do when the landlord refuses to accept written notices?

I have rented from my lanlord for a little more than three years and I have a wife and two kids. I had quit my job for personal reasons that I had worked for five years and began having problems paying. I told him right then that I didn’t think I would be able to [...]