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The Landlord should check if everything works in the apartment. The dwelling is cleaned and any repair works completed before listing the apartment for rent. It is always a good idea to have a draft copy of rental agreement ready.
What a landlord verifies is completely up to the landlord
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.
Sure. He just has to fix them before he rents it.
depends on your landlord. also depends on if you rent before the old rentors have left.
It's not illegal. It might be a bad idea, though.
Before your apartment can be shown to a potential tenant it must be vacant. A landlord only the right to be in your apartment for routine or emergency maintenance, the former with proper notice of at least one day. Until you are legally evicted from their apartment, it remains your home.
This should have been disclosed when the landlord performed the background check, before the lease was signed. Well, if the landlord had an application for an apartment to which the tenant denied having been evicted if there were questions that asked such, then the landlord can terminate the lease for the tenant having falsified the information given.
Call the power company. They will ask for a deposit before they put in your meter.
You should revisit your lease to determine whether you can sublet without the landlord's permission. Most of the time, you have to speak to the landlord before moving someone in your apartment or home.
This depends on your local housing codes. This would seem like a cosmetic issue and would be in the landlords best interest to do so, but he may not be lawfully required. He can rent the apartment in any condition as long as it meets the definition of "habitable" and meets local house and building codes. You have a few options, either don't rent the place or reach an agreement in writing with the landlord about the carpets. You may try an agreement such as "I will have the carpets professionally cleaned and whatever that cost is, you deduct it from next months rent." Finally, should you sign a leasehold for the apartment, you should note in the initial walk-through, the condition of the carpet and takes photos of it. This protects your personal interests should the landlord attempt to blame you for the damage to the carpets (and incidents such as this have happened in many jurisdictions).
This means the apartment is allowing you to still live there (perhaps you settled and paid the arrears but not before the Landlord obtained a Judgment or writ of execution against you but chose not to kick you out)