I signed a lease with the landlord that stated I wont get a mailbox key(big mistake). The lease expired 2 years ago and I’m still renting from him. I’m in a tough financial situation that’s putting things on hold as far as moving goes. My question is, now that the lease expire, what legal rights […]

I have been living in my apartment for about 3 years now. My landlord is elderly and she only comes around to ‘clean’ up the apartment from the 1st to the 5th so that she can collect rent as well. The apartment complex is quite small, 5 apartments in all, but the maintaince is never […]

RENT APARTMENT FOR 7YRS WITH PARTNER.MY PARTNER DIED IN JAN.2013.NEW LANDLORD DIDN\’T SHOVEL HE FELL HAD A HEART ATTACK AND DIED.TOLD LANDLORD HE SAID THAT\’S HE\’S ALWAYS FALLING.NOW HE TRYING TO EVICT ME I PAY RENT NEVER LATE.EVERY OTHER TEANANT PAY PARTICAL RENT OR BEHIND.THEY ISS HIS BUTT.ISN\’T THIER RIGHTS FOR ME

I received a letter at my apartment, slid under the door, by a "Concerned Resident", stating a nearby apartment had a Bed Bug Infestation that the apt management has NOT notified any of the tenants about and that we should call the office to ask them to treat our apartments. They said the infected apartment […]

Black mold is quickly becoming a legal nuisance because of the way it spreads and the health hazards that it creates. The good thing about it is that its life cycle is pretty much known to everyone so it’s easy to spot them. Mold, of any kind, thrives in moist places – fiber, ceiling, wall […]

I was renting a house in Orlando, Florida. The lease began on April 1, 2012 and ended on December 31, 2012. My roommate and I had access to the entire house with the exception of the master bedroom which the landlord kept locked and used for storage. Our landlord was supposed to be out of […]

The downside to living in an apartment complex is the noise. Imagine several people in the same building, doing their own stuff in their own – with some tenants even being inconsiderate enough to make all kinds of noise. Yes, it is a nightmare. Although hearing your neighbors sometimes is okay, hearing them every day […]

Since we started the contract,they never came to repair the leaks in my bathroom. This apartment is infested with roaches since I rented one year and a half ago eject an unpleasant odor of zinc from the shower and the drain fungi everywhere The walls are in poor condition inside the dishwasher never worked bad […]

We have a unique situation that I haven’t been able to find an answer to in other blogs or landlord/tenant laws. We have a landlord who claims he his allowed to store his stuff in our rental spaces (porch, garage, basement) because he is the landlord and there is no designated "landlord storage" in our […]

is there a law in florida that requires landlords to replace the carpet every two years? i have heard this more than once, but I cannot find it in " Chapter 83 LANDLORD AND TENANT" of the Florida statutes.  maybe its in reference to mold & mildew?  I am not sure. But my old landlord […]