I recently moved out of a townhome (I live in Virginia by the way).  My roomates and I own two dogs which left quite a lot of dog hair on the floor.  Otherwise there were no stains.  Our lease required that we have the carpets professionally cleaned with proof.  We, the renters, vacuumed and swept […]

I moved in to an apartment back in September of 2010 after two months i had zero problems with the landlord. I paid my rent on time and even two weeks in advance. but in early November my heat went out. I informed my landlord of the problem and it was fixed with in a days time. Then again […]

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 […]

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 filed a complaint (#20-1354) and initially there was some activity from the landlord, however, the problem was not ultimately resolved.  Eventually the RPA closed the case after there was no response from the Landlord.  Is it true that if a landlord completely ignores the RPA, there’s nothing they can do about it?  If so, […]

I am a renter in Florida and have a standard Residential Lease. 4 days ago, the central air conditioning broke in the house. The landlord is in the middle of foreclosure on the house and refuses to spend the money required to get the AC fixed because she said she may lose the house anyway. […]

I have been getting bitten at night. My sumlord has not yet had an esterminator here. She will not answer my calls and is more concerned about the rent or how much this will cost her. I need to get out of her and I do NOT want to take any critters with me!!!! I […]

Me My husband and 1 year old son been living in our apartment for 5months now and recently discovered bed bugs mind you we just got my bed less then 3 years ago brand new and never had a problem until now…a friend of mine who actually use to live in the apartment right before we moved in said […]

I live in complex that allows pets.  They have pooper scooper stations setup throughout the property.  However many of the pet owning tenants are in a word, ignorant. Every day I wake up and come home to dog feces strewn about the small lawns in from of my apartment. Several complaints to the complex managment […]

Several months ago several girlfriends and I moved into a house that was listed as "As Is." The landlord had left curtains (with some kind of larvae bug on them) which we washed, but he didn’t clean any of the carpets, the kitchen, anything. The carpets were soiled and we stated that on the lease. […]