The landlord is required to give you one month's advance notice prior to instituting a rent increase. This one month notice does not need to...

Yes. If your roommate also signed the lease, you can sue the roommate. The fact that the roommate is now in another state, however, does...

Unless the lease is renewed, once the lease expires, the tenant becomes a month to month tenant. In my opinion, your liability as a co-signor...

The answer is not as simple as it may seem. There is a concept in landlord tenant law, known as "constructive eviction." It basically stands for...

I know you want to be a good neighbor and you do not want to cause problems that may strain your relationship, but the solution is really simple. ...

Lease agreements for 3 years or more must be in writing. Regardless of whether your landlord remembers signing the rider, if you have a copy of...

You have asked a very common question. Very often, when a tenant moves out, the tenant gives no written notice and does not turn in the keys. ...

When you state that the building has 4 units and 2 are occupied by the landlord, it sounds like you are stating that this is an owner occupied...

The unfortunate fact is that, under ordinary circumstances, Civil records in New Jersey cannot be expunged. Since searching for evictions is very...

Unfortunately, it seems that your concerted and reasonable efforts to resolve this matter have been ignored by the bureaucracy of the utility...