Landlord-Tenant Issues

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While renting your property, you need to ensure that your tenants are qualified for handling or residing in your property. Screening tenants helps you to get qualified tenants and you will get an opportunity to know your tenants better before signing lease or rental agreement.here are steps for screening tenants.

Not unless the lease states that it can be vacated if one of the signatories enlists. Many landlords would agree to vacate it, out of patriotism, but nothing requires them to.

Semper fi.

The laws that govern rental tenancies are different depending on where you live.

Generally, however, a landlord has a right to legally evict a tenant who damages the property or doesn't clean or maintain it properly. You may also evict a tenant who overstays their lease.

Before evicting the person, there may be different legal requirements - for example, you may have to fill in a form to notify the tenant of a problem, you may have to give the tenant a set period of time in which to fix the problem, etc. etc. Look up "tenancy law" in your local area to find out more detail.

Yes. As you said, you only have one month to go before your move in. Hand in your notice ASAP. The worst that can happen is usually the landlord (at least in Canada) requires first and last months rent so you may lose it. You've waited this long to get into your home, so a month isn't so bad. Get that notice in! You shouldn't have to wait long as there are not enough rentals to go around in most cities and it should be natched up very quickly. Second Answer: What does your lease say? My apartment lease says I will give notice at least 60 days before the one year lease ends if I do not intend to renew it. In other words, if I gave notice 30 days before the lease ends, I would be required to lease the apartment for another month (at the one-month-at-a-time rate. (Or, in another interpretation, I might be compelled to sign for another year lease if they don't get 60 day notice.) Either way, you can bet I'll be ready with my answer 61 days in advance. But it comes back to: What are the termination clauses in your lease?

Yes. Housing law has nothing to do with immigration law, and a landlord has no obligation to investigate a prospective tenant's citizenship status. Furthermore, federal housing law prohibits discrimination based on race or ethnicity. The landlord who refuses to rent to someone because of a question of citizenship is probably basing his concern on ethnicity. Does the landlord ask every prospective tenant, or just those who look "foreign."

Generally speaking, a tenant does not become such until he has been handed the keys to his dwelling. If the landlord has not received his first month's payment, this is the same as in not receiving the rent, which is payable in advance. Therefore the landlord does have the right to withhold the key.

If there is something wrong with your apartment, most state's laws allow you to withhold your rent, and write the landlord a letter stating what the problem is, and that the rent will be withheld until it is fixed. I would advise getting the local building inspector to visit, and write a report. Then, send the report with the letter to the landord.

lessor is the owner of property

Tortious interference means the wrongful interference with some right or economic opportunity belonging to a person which causes that person some monetary loss. It is usually used in connection with a business opportunity as where a person slanders or libels a person in order to hurt that person's opportunity to make some income in business. The tort of slander or libel will exist on its own to compensate the person for damage to his reputation; but there is the additional tort of wrongful interference with a business opportunity tp compensate the person for loss of income that would have been earned but for the wrongful action of the tortfeasor. Two separate types of damage; two separate torts.

The burden of proof is on the landlord to prove that you commited a violation of the lease. However, you should be aware that in some states, even just a guest visiting who is found to have narcotics on him constitutes a lease violation - even if the tenant didn't know that the guest had drugs.

Until the foreclosure sale happens, the tenant owes the rent to the landlord. What is happening between the landlord and tenant is really none of the tenant's business.

And, yes, a landlord can certainly ask the tenant to pay the rent to someone else, acting as an agent. However, the tenant would be within his rights to say, "No, I'll only pay to the landlord."

I believe it is solely the landlord's responsibility to pay management fees. The landlord charges rent. All fees come out of the rent. Some areas of California have rent control, others do not.

If the stove/refrigerator were furnished and they no longer work, the landlord must replace them.

The thing is, every apartment, house or living quarters has a limit as to how many people are legally allowed to reside there. So, when you put an apartment up for rent, as a landlord, you are supposed to know beforehand what that number is. So, if the apartment is a two bedroom apartment and there are two parents with two children of the same sex, that would be within the law, therefore one price without modification for the two children. If they are trying to charge for the children, I would question it as if you are within the number of people allowed for that unit, one price should do it and not extra for kids within that number. BUT, unless there is a law saying you CANNOT CHARGE EXTRA FOR KIDS, which I dont think there is such a thing, the landlord can pretty much charge what he wants. It is possible that he is charging additional because kids traditionally make more damages of property, simply because they are kids, rather than four adults.

No.

This is a very difficult, if not impossible, question to answer. Rents vary from location to location. You could be in a downtown location where the rent is higher, and the next moment in a suburb, where it could be even higher or lower.

"Secured" is a term applied to when a person signs personally for a lease.

I'm no lawyer but...

Yes, I expect so.

If you pay additional rent for a pet, then "reasonable" wear and tear would be expected and there should not be added charges for that.

If the pet does something beyond normal wear and tear, let's say they chew up the drapes, wires or repeatedly poop on the carpet, then you'd expect this to be the tenant's responsibility to make right.

no, because the lease-signer is a minor. Only adults can sign and be legally responsible for a lease.l

Never!!

I'm pretty sure the cosigner doesn't have to pay it. If the tenant dies suddenly, I wouldn't think his/her family would be obligated to pay the rent, because I'm sure they would move everything out when the tenant dies.

Yes.

Depends on your landlord. You may be responsible for your own utilities or, especially if the utilities are not split as in many 2 family homes which share water and other utilities, they are included in the rent or lease.

The duration that it can take you to back out after signing a lease depends with the lease that you signed. However, if you discover any fraud you can always talk to your lawyer to have it reversed as soon as possible.