Three other friends and myself were going to rent a 4-bedroom apartment with a huge management company in a college town.   But after I signed the lease and one of the other 3 deposited the security deposit of $1700.00, the other 3 decided to backed out leaving me the sole accepter of this lease… […]

I recently moved out of a house because the electricitrical wiring shorted out. the landlord blames me and won’t return my deposit. was never late on rent and left the property cleaner than I found it. The wiring of the house is more than 75 years old. what can I do? Thank you

With renting from 2 land lord’s,2 year’s from a partner land lord recieved my deposit of 1,200 for a month to month lease,second landlord found out his partner wasnt paying the house note,I rented a lower flat for 5 year’s more from 2nd landlord,now he says I must collect the deposit from his no longer […]

The previous post helped me some as I moved into an apartment and 3 days later discovered bed bugs. My question is do landlords have to by law tell you before you sign a lease that there are bed bugs? My landlord knew there were bed bugs in the unit and in the building and […]

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 […]

My former landlord is carging me $55 to reseed a 2-foot by 5-foot patch of grass in my back yard.  I’m fighting that, but when I asked if my Pet Deposit covered the "damage" my dogs made, they said "We will not be using your Pet Deposit to pay for the damage the dogs made […]

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 […]

I live in Bountiful utah. The apartment we live in recently lost hot water due to the hot water heater being out. The corporate office for the apartments I live in are refusing a new one even though we have now gone 5 days without hot water. How long in the state of Utah can […]

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 […]