You may well have the right to rescind the lease for fraud under Civil Code Section 189 (since the landlord did not disclose the dirty conditions,...

If you timely file a cost memo, you can at least recover your court filing fees, motion fees, etc. Whether you can recover attorney fees depends...

Make sure to timely provide an accounting within the 21 day deadline specified in Civil Code Section 1950.5. That law specifically authorizes using...

Under Civil Code Section 3479 and the derivative case law, whether noises constitute a "nuisance" is an objective standard, since some people or...

In my view, any such pet urine (which I gather is unproven), or similar problems, would go beyond ordinary tear and tear, and could entitle the...

You should get help from a local landlord-tenant attorney or tenants rights organization, including to confirm that the notice is properly drafted,...

You should be able to ask the judge to take judicial notice of the public records showing the corporate-plaintiff is a suspended...

Make sure to timely provide an accounting within the 21 day deadline specified in Civil Code Section 1950.5. That law specifically authorizes using...

Your post is a little unclear, but it sounds like after you moved out, you were served with a complaint for unlawful detainer. Regardless of...

If (as you say) the daughter has been appointed by the court as the representative of the deceased landlord's estate, then she is basically the new...