Landlord Tenant Legal Questions and Answers
Is an Oral Accord and Satisfaction Enforceable?
Im currently moving out of a place I rented for 13 months. My lease is payed in full and expires July 28, 2009. The notice required to move out is 60 days. I was out of town and gave 45 day notice. Since the lease requires 60 days I was told to stay half of the next month after the lease ended and pay half months rent to fulfill the 60 day agreement. I agreed and am now be...
07/24/2009 | Category: Landlord Ten... » Lease Termin... | State: Virginia | #17794How Does New Jersey Landlord Remove Tenants?
My mother has a 2 family home which she rents the 2nd floor. She's had this home for 40 years. She has a family living upstairs that have become a problem. She does not have a lease with them. When she rented the apartment she did not know the wife was pregnant with her 3rd child. She thought she was renting to a family of 4. They did not tell her until they were in the a...
07/20/2009 | Category: Landlord Ten... » Lease Termin... | State: New Jersey | #17667How Do I Count the Days for Notice to Terminate a Lease in Missouri?
We are in a one year contract with a townhouse, which will expire on July 31st, 2009. We gave the 30-day move out notice on July 2nd. Here are my questions. 1) should July 2nd be counted as the first day of the 30-day notice?2) the rental office told us that we were one day late and they will charge a full month rent for the insufficient notice fee. We are not renting on a mont...
07/14/2009 | Category: Landlord Ten... » Lease Termin... | State: Missouri | #17541Can I Rescind A Nonrenewal of My Lease in Washington?
My daughter, son-in-law, and granddaughter are currently in a lease til the end of August. They had thought they might move after the lease is up but before they had time to even look around the manager of their apartment had them sign that they would not be renewing their lease. They did this in April by constantly calling and basically harassing them to sign, even though the...
07/14/2009 | Category: Landlord Ten... » Lease Termin... | State: Washington | #17536Can a Security Deposit Be Retained By Landlord in Georgia?
seeking to receive back $500.00 deposit check for a apartment room rental; that did not come to be. new to area and cancelled agreement (verbal only) which form? desire to put mechanical lien on property (Condo in Norcross).
07/13/2009 | Category: Landlord Ten... » Lease Termin... | State: Georgia | #17519What is the Tenant's Right to Cure in California?
After you are served a notice to vacate by writ of possession, is the ability to pay the outstanding money owed to the landlord to rectify the situation and continue with the terms set forth in the lease or will I still need to vacate?
07/10/2009 | Category: Landlord Ten... » Lease Termin... | State: California | #17478Can a Security Deposit Be Reatained By Landlord in Georgia?
We leased our house out in 2001. The lease stated if rent was not paid by the 5th it would incur a 10% late fee. Our tenant paid the first and last months rent as well as a deposit. He paid the rent after the 5th on many occasions, but never paid the late fees. We informed him of this in several letters. In addition, he removed all the shrubbery around the house because t...
07/09/2009 | Category: Landlord Ten... » Lease Termin... | State: Georgia | #17405Can I Have Tenants Sign New Lease If I Let Old Lease Expire By Accident?
My wife and I have been renting our investment property (a 4 bedroom house) to a young couple for 2 years now. The first year's contract was a 1 year lease; the year 2 contract was a lease extension which expired on June 14, 2009. Due to a serious family health situation, I inadvertently allowed the lease to expire without sending our tenants a year 3 extension to sign. Questio...
07/06/2009 | Category: Landlord Ten... » Lease Termin... | State: California | #17365What Can I Do To Terminate Lease When I Failed To Give Timely Notice?
My daughter has a one year lease set to expire in August 2009. She wants to relocate to NYC. She gave a written notice within 60 days of the lease expiring but the lease requires a 90 day notice. My daughter is moving by the end of August. The landlord automatically renewed her lease without her approval because there was no change in the rent amount. The landlord wants my daug...
07/06/2009 | Category: Landlord Ten... » Lease Termin... | State: New York | #17364How Do I Avoid Eviction in Arizona is I have been served with eviction papers?
I live in a house in Arizona where our signed lease agreement went out last April. We have been paying rent since then without signing a new lease. My wife was involved in a car accident on May 15, taken to an emergency room, missed 2 days of work, and so on. We had to pay a $1000 deductible to get our car out of the shop as well as some car rental fee's. So because of this we ...
07/06/2009 | Category: Landlord Ten... » Lease Termin... | State: Arizona | #17355