Tenant Rights Blog & Forum

Our landlord rented out his unihabitable home knowing city wouldn’t approve it as a rental unless items were fixed and brought up to code. The known issues were not disclosed to us as tenants prior to moving in or while we were occupying residence. This was just so he could have a free source of [...]

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My lease was not renewed because building was sold to a new owner. Now the new owner want’s to raise the rent by 150%. Is this legal for him to do that

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My landlord claims oops, they were never to allow cats who were not declawed and now they can but they charge an extra $200 depost.  They are also giving a deadline for additional vet documentation of breed, age, size and clawed or declawed of all pets or they will terminate the lease.  Is this legal? [...]

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I moved into a house 1/13 in Davenport Fl form out of state. The day I moved in I did walk around inspection. I made a list of things wrong with the house. It took months for everything to be fixed. Just last month my fuse panel had to be rewired as we had power [...]

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I am behind in rent, I told my landlord my situation and when I could catch up, I even went so far to sign a promissary note.  My situation changed and I couldn’t uphold my end, I told him and he went ballistic, gave me a 3 day notice and and told me I had [...]

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I have lived in the same complex for 3 years. I was told to renew my lease in December because I could lose my bedroom because it’s student housing. I got bit 5 times last summer and I killed 17 spiders in a month! I just killed one today. I have told the landlord on [...]

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If a property management employee cause major structural damage during a repair to the build and the following issues applied: ·         It was an occupied build ·         No permits were pulled and did not have it inspected ·         Property management has no contractor’s license ·         Made no attempt to repair it ·         The structure of [...]

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MY LANDLORD HAS A GUY THAT SPRAYS THE APARTMENT FOR ROACHES(WHICH WE DID NOT HAVE UNTIL THE BUG GUY CAME) COMBINED WITH THAT TIME THE LANDLORD MAKES SURE THAT MY APARTMENT IS UP TO HIS STANDARDS STOVE CLEAN, SMOKE DETECTOR WORKS AND HOSEHOLD IS CLEAN IF ANY OF THESE ITEMS FAIL TO MEET HIS STANDARDS HE CHARGES $25 [...]

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My apartments are charging me for replacing the carpets after I moved out. I intend to pay for it but they are refusing to give me a copy of the actual bill from the carpet company. They will only show me the estimate. The estimate has prices crossed out and handwritten other charges in there [...]

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