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Hi    My name is Arun Mathew and I live in a unit in a 4 plex home.The issue with my landlord started on last month June 01.Earlier we have complained to our landlord that our bathroom tap was leaking and since it was not a emergency she kept a bucket under the basin.   On [...]

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hi, im mentally disabled and my psychiatrist put in writing its medically necessay for me to move asap due to my mental illness. plus, i read somewhere online that if a mentally disabled tenant doesnt feel safe in their own dwelling, they can break their lease. one more thing, i also read where a judge doesnt [...]

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Can my landlord do this?  I feel like he is extremely unfair.

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I’VE BEEN RENTING A LOWER DUPLEX FOR THE LAST 10 YEARS. OUR UPSTAIRS NEIGHBOR HAS ROACHES, & THEY ARE TRYING TO MOVE DOWNSTAIRS, I’M OUT. I GAVE THE LANDLORD A 30 DAY WRITTEN NOTICE ON 9-5-11, SAW LAST ROACH I WAS GOING TO SEE ON 9-3-11. TOLD LANDLORD WE COULD HELP EACH OTHER IF HE [...]

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neighbor on the left smokes crack all day & has a dog who barks 24/7 in front of my bedroom window. uses window ledge as personal patio/dog house neighbor on the right abuses her child.yells,curses, hits. children play in the hallways day & night. they prefer soccer & races in the hallways i have called [...]

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My situation is as follows:My wife & I wanted to move from the Detroit area to an Upper Peninsula of Michigan town named Ironwood.  I found a home posted on craigslist.  I negotiated a lease, had it sent to me and signed it then mailed it back along with a security deposit plus first month’s rent; October’s rent.  [...]

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I lived in Massachusetts, and then moved out of state 3 months before my lease was up. Because I haven’t found a sublet, I have continued paying my rent for the remaining months (because it’s illegal not to, right?).  I was friends with the neighbors at my old apartment, and they called me to tell [...]

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I have been renting for 5 months now, I am going to break my lease because of bed bugs, I have asked them to take care of this problem and they sprayed once but this did not take care of the problem. They were supose to come back an additional two times to follow up. [...]

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I dont know how it happened, but when my family and I got home, the home that we are renting was toilet flooded.  I turned off the water to the toilet that we deemed to be the problem and contacted my landlord.  The next morning a crew arrived and said it would be 4 days [...]

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My son and his family are being evicted. They have told the Landlord about black mold in the house and he has said it is due to their cleaning. They recently had a baby, which was taken to the baby hospital due to breathing problems. My son’s girlfriend asked him before about the mold, he [...]

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