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? […]

I’ve been renting a house from my landlord for 8 years. Recently I decided to buy a house and have told him I’d be moving out. He said I would have to pay to replace the carpet which is over 8 years old. Can he do this? How long is the life expectancy of a […]

Its so cold in our apartment… and the landlord controls the heat…Heat is included in our lease… we also have a gas heater on the wall but we shouldnt have to use it. The boiler only comes on one once in the morning and its freezing all day.. its only 32 degrees outside ….what are […]

I lived in a furnished duplex for about a year and a half on a month to month lease.  I thought I had a good relationship with the landlord, but now that I’m trying to get my deposit back they are accusing me damages that I had no part in.  There were stains in the […]

One of the tenants here has had a history of assault. About one year ago, she shoved another tennant into a treadmill over an air conditioner. Did the landlord have any obligation to inform a new renter of this issue?  I am scared. I do not like feeling like I am afraid to walk out […]

Moved in apartment in Dec, 2009. Began getting mysterious bites, but thought maybe it was little spiders and requested extermination several times by phone…the last time in person. Exterminators found 1 bug in apartment and property manager told us it was none of our business whether or not they had previous problems and she did […]

We moved into senior housing 55 plus and have run into units with bedbugs. They have had the bed bug dog go through all the unit to locate them then had to fumigate them along with ajoining rm ours this tqake about 4 hours each time and has to be checked in 4 months. My […]

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 […]

In the last 2 years i have had  4 different issues witha mice. i could not live in my living room for several weeks each time due to the mice issue.i contacted the rental office, they looked into it and set some traps, i also bougt traps foam and other supplies. am i entitled to […]