Only if you authorize them to draft directly out of your account.
If you have a lease your landlord would have to take you to court to have you kicked out of the apartment. If you are a month to month tenant then the landlord can request that you vacate with 30 days notice.
Save the money in an escrow account and let the landlord take the tenant to court. This can be explained to the Judge
Not necessarily: this depends on how much money you have paid the landlord. If you paid all of the money you owed the landlord before hand and then your current rent, then the eviction is canceled. Please note that an eviction is complete when you are forced to move out of the apartment, not when the judge issues a writ of ejectment. This is because the landlord must take every step during the eviction process in order to proceed with it.
Your lease should answer all of these questions. The landlord should take care of what is theirs (carpets, drywall, etc.) They will not cover the contents of your apartment. This is why you should always get renters insurance!
Sometimes it take a long-time for the landlord to take action. If I were you do what I do. I called The Critter Guy here in Canada about the Bat removal and I called my landlord to offer it and immediately he agreed to do it today. Problem solve.
only if you give it to him
It is unseemly that a landlord can charge a tenant for other than the items listed in the lease. You can pay them and take your landlord to landlord-tenant court for reimbursement, or you can approach a landlord-tenant advocacy to find the answer that you want.
This varies from landlord to landlord. If you are staying in full fledged apartment, the insurance will be taken care of by the apartment owner itself. otherwise if you staying in independant house, we have take care of insurance cover for strom damage, flooding.
You will be held legally responsible for the lost rent on the apartment PROVIDED that the landlord makes a reasonable effort to re-rent the apartment. A reasonable effort would be considered running an ad in the newspaper, placing a Craigslist ad, posting the apartment on apartments.com, etc. However, the landlord is not obligated to lower the rent or rent the apartment to tenants who do not meet the landlord's reasonable screening standards.
If the carpet originally smelled like that before you moved in, the landlord would have to do something about that. If it began smelling like cat urine after you moved in, I believe you would have to take care of that. Check your contract with the landlord.
You can do that if you issued the money order in favor of your landlord. In that case, there would be a reference number for the money order, take that to the bank that issued it and they would be able to provide the details.
If payments were late, then the money was owed. Yes, the landlord may take money owed.