When in a commercial lease, tenants are usually required to contribute payments for taxes, utilities, and building operating expenses. They are billed typically during the first or second quarters of the year. Review the charges Remember to always revise and review these bills! They often contain errors. One of the reasons why there are many [...]
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5 Steps to Adding a Roommate to Your Rental Lease Agreement
1.Give your landlord a note about your intention to have a roommate. Yes, if you’re on good personal terms and have a friendly landlord you can speak to them directly. A note gives the landlord some time to think the decision over without pressure. Although many landlords will agree and cooperate with your desire to [...]
Florida Landlords Can Charge Renters Who Break Lease Two Month Penalty
The Florida rental laws get a major change. Landlords are happy; tenants aren’t. The Florida Legislature updated the state’s 34-year-old rental laws on an almost unanimous vote, allowing landlords the ability to levy thousands of dollars in penalties against renters who break their leasing agreements. How was the rental law before this? A landlord or [...]
College Life: Is it Better to Live On-Campus or Off-Campus?
Who can escape the allure of the dorm room? You get the thrill of college life… and along with that, the cramped conditions, shared bathrooms, and nosy resident assistants that stick their nose into all of your business. Because really, who can escape the unbridled freedom of living off-campus, by YOUR rules. So what’s better: [...]
My Landlord is Forcing Me Out of My Apartment and I Have No Lease!
My landlord has said that he needs to knock down the walls to the rental where I am staying at and fix the pipes because the heat is messed up. He says he’ll need about 2 months to do this and I’ll need to move out for those 2 months.It is a basement apartment and [...]
Real Estate Legal Terms and Definitions
Abstract A summary; an abridgment. Before the use of photo static copying public records were kept by abstracts of recorded documents. (Not used in Arizona and most Western states.) Acre A measure, usually of land, equal to 160 sq. rods (43,560 sq. ft.) in any shape. Action to Quiet Title A court action to establish [...]
Can a Landlord Prohibit Smoking on Their Property?
Is it true that it’s possible to agree in a lease that there can’t be any smoking inside the rental property but that I can’t refuse to rent my property out to smokers? My situation is that I have tenants that are smokers who, although they don’t smoke inside, they do smoke in the common [...]
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