Landlord Tenant Legal Questions and Answers
How to enforce neighborhood bylaws
We have a common area where a tenant, who is a renter, has set up a large tent and a travel trailer. He was given permission, by a former President of the association, that he could have access to it. He is on an end unit and is our handyman around the units. He stores a vintage corvette, a Motorcycle, some tools, and a Lawnmower for cutting our grass. I have several complaints...
04/27/2009 | Category: Landlord Tenant | State: ALL | #16155Does the law require a property manager if I live in different state from the property?
If I am renting my property in Oregon and I live in California, do I have to have a property manager?
04/13/2009 | Category: Landlord Tenant | State: Oregon | #15983Can the oil company make me responsible for collecting from my tenants?
My tenants are required to pay for their own oil heat and are each billed separately and always have been. After 20 years the oil company is now saying I have to pay for all tenant oil deliveries and bill them each myself and be liable if they don't pay for the oil. I never agreed to that and have never been billed for their oil or agreed to be liable for it. who is liable unde...
04/07/2009 | Category: Landlord Tenant | State: Maine | #15915As a landlord what are the liabilities of renting to a tenant with a criminal sexual conduct history
In the State of Michigan, is a landlord/owner of an apartment building permitted to lease to a tenant with a criminal sexual conduct history? Is there any disclosure required to other tenants and what liabilities are present?
04/07/2009 | Category: Landlord Tenant | State: Michigan | #15909What are my options when property managment will not work with me on terminating the lease?
If a management company refuses to cooperate with you when a tenant breaks the lease after eight months from the original term of two years, and refuses to pay the penalty, what options do I have?
03/24/2009 | Category: Landlord Tenant | State: Ohio | #15749Tenant not Paying Utilities that are in Landlords name
What recourse of legal actions or options as a landlord do I have if tenant fails to pay utitilities if the account is in the Landlord's name. Can the landlord have the utilities cut off until payment is made?
03/17/2009 | Category: Landlord Tenant | State: Ohio | #15664What is amount that rent on a commercial lease can be raised at one time?
I bought a co-op in 1998 and another in 2002 in the same building. Last October (2008), we where advised by the co-op board that our land lease rent was going up around 115%. My wife and I were shocked. I went back and checked my closing statements. There was a disclosure stating that we had a land lease which we new about, but nothing stating anything about a rent increase on ...
03/14/2009 | Category: Landlord Tenant | State: New York | #15630Is it still considered subleting if the person is a relative staying rent free?
Is it considered a sublet if the subtenant is a family member living in the apartment alone and rent free?
03/11/2009 | Category: Landlord Tenant | State: New York | #15549How to Terminate Apartment Lease When Dealing with Poor Management
I signed a lease at an apartment complex in Clarksville, TN, that expired August 14, 2008, after which it turned to a month-to-month lease. However, toward the end of June, while I was out of the country, the management with which I had signed the lease went bankrupt. A new management took over the complex, saying that the old management hadn't left any tenant leases behind and...
03/10/2009 | Category: Landlord Tenant | State: ALL | #15513Am I obligated to pay for the two weeks prior to the start date of the lease?
In the state of VA, we are starting a lease on a home through a (3rd party) Real Estate agent. On the agreement it states we were given 'Possesion' of the house on 2/9/09 and the lease term to begin on 3/1/09. We were told we could start moving in on 2/9/09, which we did. Nothing was said, that we couldn't live there before 3/1/09. We moved most of our belongings and statrted l...
03/03/2009 | Category: Landlord Tenant | State: Virginia | #15422