Legal occupant by definition is someone who has the legal right to stay or live in a rental property that is often backed with a lease agreement. Legal occupant who is unable to pay his rent and his other obligations can frustrate a landlord and may cause the landlord to evict him out of his […]

Due to tough economy and sense of duty that many people allow members of their family to live with them. Unfortunately, living with relatives does not work out sometimes and some issues and disputes may come along the way. If time comes and you need to ask them to move out and they do not […]

There are a lot of landlords and real estate investors that has a love/hate relationship with tenants who are a part of section 8. Section 8 is a program from the US government and the department of housing and urban development that provides housing assistance to the people. Having a tenant under section 8 live […]

Landlord harassment is making intimidating situations by a landlord on a rental property with the goal of forcing the tenant to vacate the unit. The landlord opt to do this when he does not want to go over the legal procedure of evicting the tenant or even face any impediments to eviction wherein there is […]

Am I financially responsible for beg bug testing/extermination? I returned home yesterday afternoon and saw a bug crawling on my pillow, I googled bed bugs images and I’m pretty sure that’s what it was. I pulled the matress out from the wall to find many small ones and two more larger ones. I have no […]

Hello!!! I have a Landlord who threatens to evict us every month because of some sort of ridiculousness. Ive only been here to months and its already out of hand. The first time we received a threat was in the first week of moving in. we still had some stuff in the old place and […]

  I am currently renting an older house that in 10 months of living there have had the sewage back up in the basement twice.  This most recent time, last week, they did have someone come out and clear out tree roots for the second time, but left the roots and bodily waste all over […]

My landlord does not seem interested in keeping her property up kept.  In July 2010, she released me from my 12 month lease because she felt I was not happy here.  I explained to her that I was happy here, but that her property needed attention.  I told her I would give her a written […]

My Family and I rented a house month to month just moved in four months ago/ landlord sold house gave me 30 day notice. she knew we were looking for long term. I don’t think you wake up one day a say oh am going to sell my house. she did not charge me a […]

              michael wise:I live in an old apartment complex on the second floor above an older couple, and right across the hall from them are the property managers who are also their family. So every complaint gets blown way out of proportion. The floors are very thin, and wood. They are constantly banging on the […]