Landlord Tenant Blog

My 11 year old son made a nice picture of a pentagram, symbolizing earth, air, fire, water, spirit. It was hanging on the inside of our apartment. He put it there to protect himself from negative energy of our mean, nasty, irrational, threatening, scary neighbor. This man swore up and down at me to take it down because he believes in God. I explained it wasn’t a satanic symbol, we also believe in a higher power. ...

My mom passed away a week ago, she rented her home and her landlord called me today to tell me he changed the locks until I can show Power of Attorney or executors papers? I am an only child, my mom didn’t have any money or accounts just her personal belongings. From what I’ve read since she’s already deceased I can’t get POA so what exactly do I need to do to obtain her things, all the family photos, my ...

I moved out of my apartment on July 19 and my lease was up on July 31. On August 20 I received a check for my security deposit for $366, when it was supposed to be for $400. I texted my ex-landlord (that is her preferred way of communicating, it it how we have always communicated in the almost two years that she was my landlord) and asked her why it was for the wrong amount. She told me she ...

I live in Colorado and my landlord has said she is filing for bankruptcy and wants me to move out in sixty days will allow me 30 days rent and $300 to move. I don’t want to move, I sent a certified letter saying “I can’t accept your offer.” She has her home up for sale and I suspect she just want to move back in. Can she terminate the lease just because she wants to or can she ...

FACTS: My apartment caught fire while I was not home in mid Nov 09. The fire was in fact caused by something of mine that my cat was playing with which touched the floor heater while I was gone. I thought that by turning the thermostat all the way to the left, the heater was off, which I always did before leaving. But the thermostat did not have any numbers or words on the unit, and the fire chief told ...

Landlord-tenant dispute – Commonwealth of Virginia

I signed a lease for a rental property. Contained within the lease was a clause that allowed me to move and store my items in the basement area on 7/26/2010 while the “turn” was being performed on the upstairs portion with actual physical move-in date of 8/4/2010. The property management company did not communicate the clause to their cleaning crew and all of my items were removed from the property and placed in ...

Location: North Hollywood, CA- Paid $1500 deposit. Lived in apartment for 1.5 years. Moved out and landlord did inspection (not with us. he did not offer to do it with us). After inspection he returned $511.00 and submitted a form listing the charges. He charged $581 for “painting”. (2 days prior to move out we hired a professional painter to paint the unit back to the originall color). I spoke with his wife and sent a very friendly letter ...