Rental Contract Agreement

Does our apartment being flooded negate any contractual agreements?

tenant foreclosure

I own a house & I can't continue to pay the mortgage. My plan is to file for chapter 13, or just let the bank take the house. will i get in trouble because i am still collecting the rent form my tenants?

Legal Forms

Why is it I have no difficulty finding free forms to start eviction proceedings, but not a single form to use for filing an Answer to a Complaint for Forcible Detainer? Where are the litigation forms???? Where are the forms for the Tenant in the Landlord/Tenant categories??

breaking an apt. lease

My parent died 4 wks after I signed a 1 yr lease on an apt. I inherited his house and morgage. Is there a legal way out of the apt. lease?

rent deposit

What's the security deposit law? How many days can they hold it after a tenant moves out?

Is this illegal eviction? or something else?

I lived with my husband and 3 stepsons and we were late paying our rent. We were almost near the end of our lease and had just found the new place we were moving. We decided to move 3 hours away to start fresh, and since we had some time left on our lease we figured we could gradually move our belongings because we couldn't afford a uhaul. We were never gone long periods of time, maybe 3 or 4 days at the most. When we came back the final time (the official last day of our lease agreement), the front door of our place was open and there was a large trailor out front. All of our things were thrown in the trailor and our home was empty. I couldnt help but cry when I saw what was missing...even my wedding dress and family photos. We drove to the landlord's office to find there was an eviction hearing for us in one hour. We decided to go to the hearing - which I didn't think could happen without being served. We were heartbroken, because we had come to pay our rent and turn in our keys. The landlord said they thought we had abandoned the property and they had emptied our home a week ago. How could they do that?

Apartment lease

My wife and I are in a law suit against our apartment complex. The landlords have been consistantly harrasing us since the beggining of the suit. Now they are blameing things on us that have NEVER happend, none the less she and I would like to break our lease, however we have a couple lined up to take the lease over or a new one on. So all together I need some advice.

commerical landlord / tenant

Landlord has precluded its tenant (a restaurant) or any of its cleints, employees, principals, vendors from parking in the spaces in front of and adjacent to the restaurant, under threat of trespass warning and arrest. The lease, in regard to parking, only states that the landlord is responsible for the parking lot. Landlord's attorney states the landlord is not responsible for providing any parking. The tenant/landlord relationship has been for 3 years with the use of the parking lot. Any recourse against landlord (for their attempt to deprive the client of any business) Immediately prior to the Attorney's letter stating this policy, Landlord had the restaurant owner's car towed away to an impound lot during the middle of the afternoon during operating hours

Tenant keeps changing locks

My tenant keeps changing the locks to her apartment. I have asked her for the keys several times, and she says she will give them to me but never does. What can I do? I know my rights are extremely limited as a landlord in New Jersey, and she's obviously aware of this, too. Please help.

Rented 3 bedroom, Informed after 2 bedrooms are usable, can I break lease?

The title says it all, I rented a 3 bedroom apartment, then was informed afterwards by a friend who works for the state board of health that because of state statute 410.400

the third bedroom is not usable. Too small.

Can I break the lease for this reason, we have 6 people total, 4 kids.

The other 2 bedrooms are below the Square footage required for 3 people as well.

Where do I stand?

forclosed apartment

can a person be evicted from a forclosed aprtment by a bank

3 day notice ot pay or quit

if we recieve a 3 day notice to quit or pay, what is the next step for the landlord? we are wanting to move out, but it will take us 2-3 weeks to give up the property. (Santa Clara, California) will we be put out by sherriff? we have not had any other documents service, no eviction etc.

personal injury

my son fell in our back yard, and cut his leg open quite badly. the debris he fell on was left by our landlords, who never make an effort to clean anything. i would like to know our legal rights with this

3-day notices

can a landlord except a partial payment and make an agreement with the tenant get the money and then still proceed with legal papers not holding up his end of the agreement

breaking a housing lease when moving out of state

I am moving to Texas from Ann Arbor by the end of April 2008 for my new position there. My lease here expires on July31, 2008. Is there any way I can break the lease?

Lis Penden

I am taking my former landlord to small claims court in order to get back my security deposit. In the meantime he has listed the property for sale. Can I file a lis penden to put a lien on the property before my court date? Can a lis penden be used in small claims court?

misrepresenting a law

We are having lots of problems with our lease. But what concerns me is that my husband was discharged from the military and in the lease it states that if he was heis able to terminate the lease under the servicemembers relief act. I looked that up and the relief act states only if he joins the military or gets orders to move. so either the lease is illegal or can I submit my case to the landlord and move out since we agreed on that term in the lease?

check cashing

Can abusiness apply a check to a different month even if it is specified on the check what month it is for?

tenant/landlord issue

Am I responsible to pay full rent up to date my LL closes on the sale of my apt., or to the date he signed the contract of sale ?

He was supposed to re-rent it, but decided to sell.

Electric Bills

I rent a slip at a marina in Virginia. The owner pays the electric bill for the entire marina. He marks the individual bills up 100% to each slipholder. Is this legal?