Tenant Rights Blog & Forum

My two sons, who are in college, rented a "garden apartment" that has large pipes all over right underneath the ceiling.We just found out that those pipes are wrapped with asbestos, and the asbestos is exposed in some places and not in good general condition thruout the apartment.To top that off we also discovered "black [...]

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Hello.     I have been without steady work for over a year.  I can no longer pay my rent, I have not been able to obtain work.  Myself, my dog and my 2 cats are going to be evicted tomorrow unless I pay what’s already 2 weeks passed due.  I’m desparate for assistance and to talk [...]

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I am a renter and we have run into some issues. When we started renting there was a hole in the cieling of my home, and it got worse with the rain. The landlord was made aware of the issue only one attempted to make it right, now I have black mold, and I am [...]

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My son put a deposit on an apartment that was meant to be finished within 2 weeks which turned into 4 then 8 with nothing being fixed in the apartment. He and his girlfriend were then forced by time restraints to get another apartment elsewhere. He never moved in or received a key. The landlord [...]

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So my husband and I paid first, last and deposit on this apartment and were getting our stuff moved in last night when we saw bugs. Like cockroaches everywhere! We never signed a lease and were NEVER told there were bugs. We have a 1 year old baby; we cannot live with bugs! They told [...]

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friend moved out but won`t take his name off lease.  Says he can still come into my house anytime he wants to, when I got a couch (he took all furniture) he just comes in and takes it.  Says he can take anything I buy.  Came in the other day, son was home, heard someone [...]

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We moved into a house with a shared utility meter. The rental agreement states as follows: UTILITIES: Payment of all utilities charges shall be the responsibility of Resident(s), with the exception of Electricity which is combined w/ XXXXB XXXXXXXX Ave. which shall be paid by LandLord. With respect to the utilities charges listed above to [...]

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I have a bedbug problem in my apartment that I rent. Ive been here since Sept. and it is now Feb. Ive brought the problem to the attention of my landlord and they say that they are going to treat room to room seperately in treatments. They’ve also said theyre not going to pay for [...]

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I have a large custom 2 family house in NYC. I reside in one apartment with my son. I rent the other apartment to a couple for a few years now with a Lease. The 2 year Lease was renewed last year.I have one large water heater and one water meter. I got talked down [...]

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