What can I do to break a lease and/or sue my landlord?
You may have grounds to break your lease if your landlord's lack of maintenance and repairs rises to the level of a material breach on the...
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You may have grounds to break your lease if your landlord's lack of maintenance and repairs rises to the level of a material breach on the...
You cannot stop the landlord from raising rents.
Try to supply your landlord with as much evidence as you can to disprove the noise complaints, such as proof that you were out of town.
The rights you have depend on you and your fiancée's legal relationship to the property. Who owns the property where you live? Is your name on a...
You need to give the step-sister and the boyfriend a termination of tenancy notice. Whatever were the terms of their occupancy will determine what...
If the landlord accepted rent for October then it reinstated the tenancy for that month; the tenancy will continue to renew from month-to-month...
A landlord has an absolute duty to provide essential services such as heat. It may not be your fault that the heater went out but it is your...
Criminal acts of third parties are not grounds for breaking a lease--unless the shooting is being done by your landlord or the landlord's people. ...
Another solution is for you to write out your own receipts and get the landlord to sign them. Your landlord is a little to old school for his own...
Because you are behind in rent the landlord has grounds to evict you. He would have to give you a five days' notice demanding payment of the...