How should I present this to her? Is there anything I should modify? (bit long)?

My sister is living with me. Due to marriage problems my sister lost her scholarship, and she doesn’t have money for rent, which is why she is staying with us. I was hoping, that letting her live with us for her last two semesters of collage would give her a stable environment to study in It’s all been a bit too chaotic though. She has no regard for our home.
In response to several of my sister’s actions my husband and I compiled a list of rules. It was originally 37 items long, however we have condensed it to 13 items.

We are having her sign it, and treating it as a contract for her expected behavior in our home. My plan is to sit down and talk with her about it, letting her know that her previous behavior in my home has been unacceptable.

Before our relationship was a trade, she received free room and bored in exchange for watching Inara (my DD) for 11 hours a week. Since she has started watching Inara though she has learned several bad habits: like how throwing a tantrum works, or how to say the “S” word. We are now hiring a sitter, and letting her stay in our home completely for free.

What do you think should be repercussions for breaking these rules? I can tell her that if she doesn’t follow these rules she will be finding a new place to stay, however there have too be some intermediary punishment as well. She is 25, I am her younger sister (22). She acts like a teenager – I’d rather avoid as much drama as possible.

Here is the list:
1. If I make a mess in a communal area, I will clean it before bed time. This includes leaving clothes, blankets and personal items strewn about the area.
2. I will not purchase meat to keep in the house.
3. I will let Peter and Eleanore know before bringing a guest over.
4. I will not wear shoes in the house unless heading back out within 5 minutes.
5. I will not swear while the baby’s awake.
6. I will not bring any additional pets into the house.
7. I will defer to Peter and Eleanore or her sitter regarding care of Inara, including nighttime care.
8. I will ask each time before borrowing any item, and always return to its owner promptly and in good condition.
9. I am responsible for protecting, maintaining, and locating my own possessions, as well as keeping them out of Inara’s reach.
10. If I am upset or bothered by someone or something then I will take steps to resolve the issue through positive communication with other household members.
11. I am responsible for making my own transportation arrangements, including getting rides or keeping adequate bus fare.
12. I will not ask or expect Peter or Eleanore to lie, mislead, or hide information from anyone under any circumstance.
13. I understand that absolutely no violence or intentional destruction will be tolerated in any form; this is immediate grounds for eviction.

What do you think? any tips in presenting it to her?

Can i countersuit my landlord ?

i am moving and the landlord says to pay for the lease until the end of the year. but i am moving on august. Also there is a security deposit that is suppose to pay for the “damages” that are on the apartment. But, there is no damages. The landlord “threatens” to turn the matter over to an attorney. I was wondering if i can counter suit the landlord for lack of support to find the people who vandalized my car. The landlord tells me i cant see the tapes that contain information leading to the vandalism because i did not report the police. Please, can someone help me ?

any attorneys that specialize in tenant/landlord issues?

I broke my lease early because I could not be around the drug use.
I didn’t know it was even an issue till November when it got colder and they started smoking and such inside. I gave my landlord a Facebook and verbal message of two months notice and he agreed.
since he was not able to find a roommate to replace me he is now taking me to small claims court for 15000. He claims I owe backrent of 6 and I don’t know what the rest is for, a deposit perhaps?
anyway, I do not owe him a thing.
Neither of us has written receipts or bank statements of what I have paid.
I feel like if I never paid the deposit why would he let me move in? And if I owed back rent every month why wouldnt he kick me out?
He is calling another roommate of ours as a false witness and he too does drugs with him.

I can’t afford the attorney fees.
Any suggestions?

Can anyone honestly say that Bush is worse that these guys?

• Adolf Hitler (Germany; 1939-1945): No explanation should really be needed on this one. If you don’t have a clue, then congratulations on making it into Western.

• Mao ZeDong (China; 1958-61 and 1966-69): He founded the Chinese Communist party and was responsible for the deaths of more than 10 times as many people as Hitler.

• Joseph Stalin (USSR; 1929-1953): He launched “the Great Purge” in the 30s that rid the Communist Party of nearly every person who had brought him to power. According to a CNN article, Soviet nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov estimated more than 1.2 million party members (more than half the group) were arrested, and 600,000 of those died by torture or execution.

• Pol Pot (Cambodia; 1975-1979): He was influenced by Mao’s cultural revolution, and 25 percent of Cambodia’s population died from starvation, overwork and executions in Pol Pot’s attempt to form a Communist peasant farming society. He conducted deadly purges to rid the area of the “old society,” and anyone suspected of being disloyal was shot or bludgeoned with an ax.

• Kim Jong-il (North Korea; 1994-present): In the world’s most tightly controlled society, roughly 250,000 civilians are in “re-education camps” and a majority of the nation is malnourished. But maybe that’s only because he is so “ronry.”

• Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe; 1980-present): While Africa isn’t the greatest continent to live on, Zimbabwe has the world’s highest inflation rate, an 80 percent employment rate and, since 1988, the life expectancy has dropped from age 62 to 38. In 2005, Mugabe launched Operation Murambatsvina (“clean the filth”), which forced the eviction of 700,000 people to “restore order and sanity.”

• Omar al-Bashir (Sudan; 1989-present): His campaign of religious and ethnic persecution has ended the lives of 180,000 Darfur civilians and has driven over two million people from their homes.
Not meant to put a price on life, just to educate the morons that call Bush a Nazi and compare him to Hitler. This question was posed to show what true evil is.

Does an attorney have to identify themselves as an attorney when doing business?

Our landlord is essentially shaking us down for an obscure provision in our lease that we renewed in January. We would have moved had we known he was going to demand $20k within 10 days as soon as we signed the lease.

I also just found out that the landlord is an attorney, but he did not say he was an attorney, the fact that he is an attorney is not on his business card and his name does not have a JD or Esq. after it in his email signature. He has an active license with the California State Bar. Didn’t he have to identify himself as an attorney at some point prior to signing the lease? Isn’t he supposed to present himself as an attorney to others?

Any help would be appreciated.

wondering…….?

I was recently served with an eviction from the manager on duty. the form comes from the apartment owners association(AOA) of california is this a legal form . who are they