Don’t get stuck paying for tenants’ blight
Q: My tenants incurred a fine from the city that claimed that their poor housekeeping (really, their yard-keeping) was a violation of city codes. The ordinance says I'm responsible for...
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Couple learns lesson about reviewing a lease
Q: My husband and I rented a house in a particular neighborhood because we wanted our kids to attend that neighborhood school. When we visited the rental, we told the...
Couple learns lesson about reviewing a lease
Q: My husband and I rented a house in a particular neighborhood because we wanted our kids to attend that neighborhood school. When we visited the rental, we told the...
Rules on breaking lease over bedbugs
Q: We've discovered a few bedbugs in our new apartment, crawling out of the seams along the floor. We're freaked out! The landlord says it's no big deal, and that...
Move-out rights apply when foreclosure strikes
Q: I rented a condo last summer, planning to stay for a year. No formal lease was signed. The landlord told me in the winter that he was having trouble...
Rules on breaking lease over bedbugs
Q: We've discovered a few bedbugs in our new apartment, crawling out of the seams along the floor. We're freaked out! The landlord says it's no big deal, and that...
Move-out rights apply when foreclosure strikes
Q: I rented a condo last summer, planning to stay for a year. No formal lease was signed. The landlord told me in the winter that he was having trouble...
Crafting a buyout package to entice tenants to move
Q: We rented out our family home when my husband was transferred to a branch office in another state. We thought the transfer would last two years, but after a...
Crafting a buyout package to entice tenants to move
Q: We rented out our family home when my husband was transferred to a branch office in another state. We thought the transfer would last two years, but after a...
Long-time tenant paying more than newcomers
Q: I have been renting an apartment in the same complex for several years. When my first lease expired, we wrote on it, "Extended to (date)," and did the same...