Tenants are generally only allowed to withhold rent if there is a substantial breach of the warranty of habitability, and the mailbox issue would...

Probably not, since the parties acted as if the lease applied to the unit you were occupying. Moreover, even if there was no formal rental...

Unless the daughter goes through the steps laid out under Civil Code Section 1946.7, she probably has no right to prematurely terminate her...

Non refundable deposits are generally illegal, including under Civil Code Section 1950.5. However, if you entered into a binding sublease/rental...

Making requests for documents, etc. in an answer is legally ineffective. You would need to either serve the landlord with a proper discovery...

Regardless of what the lease does or doesn't say (see Civil Code Section 1953), the landlord's entry rights are limited by Civil Code Section...

You would usually want disclosures and estoppel certificates if you are buying a tenant-occupied property, including so you will know the duration...

Notices commonly list everyone the landlord believes may live in the unit. If your daughter simply moved out, without formally terminating her...

There are arguments both ways, including the legal rule that at any ambiguities in a document are construed against whomever drafted the document...

If the tenancy is subject to rent control/eviction control (e.g. AB 1482), then you could argue that the landlord would need one of the specified...