Landlord withholding deposit

First, he's violated CC 1950.5 in not providing you a statement to account for the security deposit within 21 days of your moving out. Second,...

Can an apt. owner legally charge 2x monthly rent as deposit + rent for move in?

In California, landlords may legally ask for 2 months' rent as deposit plus first month's rent prior to move in. The fact that you paid cash does...

Is this a verbal contract to rent?

A verbal lease is not enforceable if it is for at least a year. Also, even if there's a breach of the oral lease, the landlord has the duty to...

Rights of the landlord ?

Somewhere in your contract with the property management there should be a provision on collection of rent on behalf of the landlord. Under the...

I have a tenant in a commercial multi-tenant building and would like to evict...

Since you have a month-to-month tenancy, the safest and easiest means to evict this tenant is to simply terminate it by giving a 30-day notice....

Who is responsible for repair of the leakage of the bathroom floor? tenants or landlord?

I would say it is common sense that floors that are left wet for a long period time may cause the flooring materials to deteriorate and leak. But...

My lease expires January 2011, I broke my lease because of money hardship and my in-laws loosing their house we had to help them

Unfortunately financial hardship is not a defense against landlord's claim against you for breach of contract. However, landlord is required to...

Can owner deduct security deposit to replace carpet?

It is doubtful deduction can be made on your security deposit to replace a 12-year old carpet. But I don't know how the cat urine got there. I...

Constructive eviction?

If the property is uninhabitable and landlord is not doing anything about it, tenant should be entitled to claim constructive eviction and recover...

Whether receipts should be provided is addressed in CC 1950.5. Generally, receipts are necessary when landlord accounts to tenant for his security...