If the landlord restores the legality of the unit, it retroactively validates the illegal collection of rent.

Can I get my landlord pay for a hotel or reimburse it from the rent when their is no hot water running?

File a complaint with the Los Angeles Housing + Community Investment Department. You are entitled to hot water.

Is it wise to counter offer a buy-out counter offer?

It rarely hurts to ask for more. To provide a meaningful response, it is necessary to know more such as how long you have the right to extend your...

Landord is evicting my parents because he has cancer and needs the house?

If the landlord refuses the rent, document your parents efforts to pay it, then put the money in a bank account to show the Court, they tried to...

Do I have a case of promissory estoppel or false pretenses ?

You automatically have paid sick leave as an employee under California's Healthy Families Act, which accrues at 1 hour per 30 hours of work. You...

Can my employer charge me for a scam totaling $1,000 perpetrated during my employment?

An employer cannot charge an employee for business losses. Kerr’s Catering Service v. Department of Industrial Relations, 57 Cal. 2d 319 (1962). In...

What do I do if landlord does not fix the things in the apartment but goes up on your rent?

You can file a complaint with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.

I live in Los Angeles, parking Inc now I get no parking what can I do?

Contact the Los Angeles Housing + Community Investment Department for assistance.

Can I sue my landlord for turning my electric off denying Edison to fix it cutting my cable wires 10 x’s slashing tires 7x’s

Shutting off the utility's would constitute illegal self help and violate Civil Code 789.3 exposing your landlord to claims for actual damages,...

I am renting a converted garage with it's own address and found out there is no CofO. Now post office is holding my mail.

Granada Hills is part of the City of Los Angeles. If there is no certificate of occupancy, then under the City of Los Angeles Rent Stabilization...