Cancel my apartment rent contract due to change of Owners?

Absent something special in Texas law, the general rule is no, the landlord is free to sell and simply transfer the lease to the new owner who is...

Outside bankruptcy In Oregon, are retirements accounts (ROTH, SEP, rollover IRAs) exempt from garnishment post-judgement?

Assuming you are referring to "ordinary" Judgment Creditors (not State child support, not school loans, not IRS, etc.), retirement accounts are...

Does 30 day notice to quit need to be 33 days if notice is sent by mail

It does not matter when you receive it per se - the notice must allow the tenant at least 30 days advanced notice. If it is served my first class...

Need to vacate Default U-D stemming from my on-line "lawyer" failing to mail Quash notice in time.

You are likely to get a brief, if somewhat forceful, legal education if you try to tell the Judge that he/she is required to do much of anything,...

Roommate broke lease.. HELP!

It is a bit unclear when you say you had the roommate sign a two year lease - did you all sign the same lease with the landlord or did they sign a...

Time limits on partial rent payment

Landlords are not required to accept partial payments and indeed may waive or otherwise lose some of their legal rights if they do accept partial...

Rent and deposit limits

A landlord is free to charge however much they want as rent and as a security deposit - if you cannot afford it, you need to rent elsewhere. Yes,...

Landlord keeps coming into house with no warning and has taken cable, & internet boxes. He now put lock on a/c fuse so no air.

She should run, not walk, to a local landlord-tenant attorney. Your posting suggests multiple violations of law by the landlord and he may well...

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My "disabled" tenant gave (then received) a 30 day notice to vacate, 1 day before the agreed upon date has said s/he wont move:

The facts aren't quite clear to me. If you gave her a standard notice to vacate (and my understanding is that it is not necessarily 30 days in...

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Can I break my apartment lease without paying expected future rent if property company hasn't followed up on maintenance request

Email maintenance requests, or other notices for that matter, are not likely to be legal requests or notices and thus are likely to not count...