Is there anything we can do if the landlord refuses to fix a noise complaint or is slandering us to others. Our rent is always paid on time.  Thanks Much

We’ve been renting from our landlord for about a year now. We signed a 6 months lease and now we are a month to month tentant. The place is pratically a piece of crap with a spectular view of the city. we have been mowing the lawn for 100 off rent (verbally agreed) and now [...]

I moved in to my current place May 31st and still have not received a copy of my rental agreement (it’s 09/22/09). Isn’t there something wrong about this? What can I do?
I would like to move to a cheaper place also (didn’t know tution was going to increase another 20%), but I’m can’t remember what [...]

My girlfriend and i have been looking for an apartment and found what would be the perfect one for us.  She viewed the place and loved it on friday and monday morning she placed a deposit; which the lady showing the property said would hold the apartment.  After leaving, another couple came in and asked [...]

I just moved to Charleston Sc about 7 months ago, and we moved to Palms Apartment of Palms Associates what should have been a sign of something wasn’t right was when we couldn’t pick our own apartment. the second was when our upstairs neighbors started giving us problems within the first week which escalated. so [...]

We moved into our apartment in January. Have always paid our rent on time and are respectful neighbors to those around us. We have had number of minor issues up until recently that include doors coming off of their hinges, broken ventilation fan, loss of power to entire wall of outlets in kitchen, loss of [...]

I have rented from Jasmine @ Sandy Springs Apartments for a year previously and have just moved back in in a single apartment for the past 4 months. I have never had a late payment or caused them any toruble. The only reason I am leaving is bacause my job has cut my hours significantly [...]

So my landlord was forclosed on and the property went to the bank.  I talked with the bank and they refused to give me any information. So I decided I would wait for an offical notice to vacate.  Yesterday, I got a notice that the property was going up for sale at an auction in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I have been having a lot of problems with my landlord the past month. I have an oral lease with my landlord for a term of 1 year. She recently decided to move some family in with her and wants us out so she can move them in. We have only lived here for 4 [...]

My rent is due on the 1st of each month and because January 1st was a holiday I took my payment in on the 2nd.  My landlord sent me a late payment penalty for not paying on the 1st.  My understanding is that Indiana law requires businesses to accept payment the next business day should [...]

Me and my dependants need to know what our rites are a.s.a.p.  as the landlord has just told me he has received notice of forclosure on the home me , my wife and three children live in. He says he’s not sure of when they will lock us out.
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We moved into a beautiful house with a Beautiful Yard in August. On August 14th my property manager told me that they would be putting in a new septic tank, and had been planning to since February (this info was withheld from me when I signed the lease) The work started September first and was completed [...]

I came to look at an apartment with a real estate agent who is managing the property for somebody, and has been for a while. On the day I looked at the apartment, it was early afternoon and everything was quiet. He had the lease with him and I stopped before I signed it and [...]

I moved out of a small apartment complex in July and have received a letter stating that I would not receive any refund of our deposit.  We scrubbed the place up and down (in many areas that I can GUARANTEE have never been touched before).  We did not have our carpet professionally cleaned and were told [...]

I have a felony background. In 1998, I was accused of aggravated battery on a police officer. It happened when I was at a New Yrs eve party and e’thing got out of control. An officer was struck. He coulnd’t point out who did it, so e’one at the party was arrested. I didn’t have [...]

I have been renting a “mother n law” suite that is attached to the main house for 3 months now – in Georgia. There is also a tenant living in the garage that has been converted into a studio like carriage house.. The main house has a completely different address from mine – the street [...]

For one year, my boyfriend and I rented a single family home.  We moved out 8/10/08, per the termination date of our lease.  During the time we lived there, I got sick, drank a little too much Ny-Quil which, mixed with my other medicine, completly knocked me out…. in the bathtub.  My tub, which was [...]

i’m renting a house in northeast nj for 2000 a month.  i talked my landlord down from 2200.  now, there are problems with the plumbing, the hot water in the shower doesn’t work.  the air conditioner can never achieve the temperature you set it at unless you stuff an extra ac unit with exhaust in [...]