Avoid discrimination in tenant safety rules
Q: I manage an apartment complex, where we have many families with children. We have large parking lots where kids often ride their bikes. This is an obvious safety hazard,...
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What’s fair compensation for tenant’s repair work?
Q: We're renting a farmhouse from an owner who lives out of state and who inherited the property from an uncle. The owner is not familiar with the property but...
What’s fair compensation for tenant’s repair work?
Q: We're renting a farmhouse from an owner who lives out of state and who inherited the property from an uncle. The owner is not familiar with the property but...
Tenants claim ‘alterations’ ban is discriminatory
Q: My tenants have asked for permission to place a large, conventional religious symbol on their front door. They'd need to screw it into the wood. My leases prohibit alterations...
Tenants claim ‘alterations’ ban is discriminatory
Q: My tenants have asked for permission to place a large, conventional religious symbol on their front door. They'd need to screw it into the wood. My leases prohibit alterations...
Month-to-month tenant miffed by landlord’s pressure to renew lease
Q I live in a town house and had a lease for the first year. When it expired two years ago, I simply stayed and continued to pay the rent,...
Month-to-month tenant miffed by landlord’s pressure to renew lease
Q I live in a town house and had a lease for the first year. When it expired two years ago, I simply stayed and continued to pay the rent,...
Is racist neighbor grounds for breaking a lease?
Q We live in a multifamily community whose management assures us that they take their screening duties very seriously. They claim that they hire a screening company and that they...
Is racist neighbor grounds for breaking a lease?
Q We live in a multifamily community whose management assures us that they take their screening duties very seriously. They claim that they hire a screening company and that they...
Laws suggest protections for tenants who report harassment
Q I'm feeling increasingly uncomfortable about the dynamics I'm witnessing at my apartment community. The manager is constantly hitting on my neighbor in public settings (like the pool), even to...