Your rights largely depend on whether your tenancy is subject to a rent control/eviction control law, such as AB 1482. If so, any rent...

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The obligation to pay rent is generally suspended when there are substantial breaches of the implied warranty of habitability, and the tenants may...

Late fees are generally illegal in residential tenancies. Orozco v. Casimiro (2004) 121 Cal.App.4th Supp. 7, 12. However, if the rent was late,...

There is no specific deadline, but the landlord has clearly exceeded what is reasonable. I suggest you complain to the local code enforcement...

The new owner took the property subject to all existing tenancy arrangements. If the tenant who prepaid did not sign a contrary estoppel...

It sounds like you should have your bank stop the 1st check, and ask your landlord to allow you to deduct the stop check fee from the replacement...

If it is month-to-month, you can terminate your co-tenancy without anyone's consent by simply giving proper notice under Civil Code Section 1946....

Civil Code Section 1710.2 provides: (a) (1) Subject to subdivision (d), an owner of real property or his or her agent, or any agent of a...

I am not aware of any way to get out of such a guaranty. However, it would be worth having a local landlord-tenant attorney go over the...

Unless the landlord has somehow created a new tenancy (e.g. by accepting rent), the judgment should still be enforceable. The landlord would...