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A "land contract" is not a way of renting property, it is a way of purchasing property on an installment basis without bank financing. It is Ohio's version of what in some other places is known as "contract for deed".
See "What is a Land Contract in Ohio" and "How Land Contracts Work" The actual law is Section 5313.
In a land contract, the buyer has ...
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The legal position
You are quite clearly not running a business and if the matter went to court you could easily prove this be e.g. getting testimony from the people at the party, your testimony etc.
In any event, your landlord can’t “fine” you. Fines are a punishment and only government can punish people. They can sue you for breach of contract for damages (...
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This article basically says "it depends":
If it is genuinely used to improve tenant safety then that is OK, but if it is used to track your private life then that is not acceptable.
Cameras that cover communal areas used by several properties are generally acceptable, but cameras covering individual properties are much less so. It sounds like ...
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Can a landlord dictate what I put online?
No, unless the lease you signed has a provision to that effect.
As for the underlying matter, the landlord has the burden of proof. A fictitious Google listing clearly falls short of proving that you are running a business at that address. Furthermore, any friend willing to perpetuate the joke(!) could reinstate the ...
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In general, a German landlord needs to give at least 24 hours notice before he can enter a home, and allowance from the renter. The renter also has the "Hausrecht", not the landlord.
There are exceptions, most of them to prevent damage from an ongoing danger threatening the house. A clear example would be a broken water pipe.
1 week notice also ...
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This is buying a house. If that's not what you mean to do, watch out! Even so, watch out.
Honestly, if it hadn't occurred to you until now to buy a house, this isn't for you. If this has piqued your interest in buying a house, explore doing it the normal way with bank mortgage, realtor, all that.
Land contracts are often thought of as "exploitive", ...
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The tenant wouldn't be involved in this at all. The tenant rents from the landlord, and the landlord gives them an account number where the tenant sends the money every month. How would the tenant be involved with you? Actually, if I was the tenant and I was told to pay the rent to some third party, that would be the reddest of all red flags to me.
As a ...
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Debt factoring is common practice
Fees generally range about 1-2% higher than mortgage rates depending on how prevalent bad debts are in the industry. This means I can get what you’re selling for less than a quarter of your price.
Typical arrangements are that I get 80% when the debt falls due and the balance (less your fee of say 3%) when the debtor pays. ...
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It is not uncommon for a landlord to instruct tenants to make payments via a lockbox service to an address other than the landlord's business office address. It is also not uncommon for a landlord to hire a management company that collects all rent and also handles maintenance and other on-premises services. Such services, I understand, charge rather less ...
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Fair wear and tear
Means the normal deterioration of a property from ordinary, everyday use. Exposure to the elements, time, as well as day to day living can cause fair wear and tear. Breakages as a result of normal use are also wear and tear.
Damage is either intentional or a result of usage that is not normal.
So, if the closet has failed through normal ...
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Once your rental contract starts, your landlord must give you access to the rented flat. If he doesn't do so he is in breach of contract. You could sue him, but that would be a bad start for a longer term contractual agreement. It might be less time and effort to look for a new flat. And do you really want to be in a long term contract with someone who ...
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California has a particular set of regulations addressing coastal land ownership, detailed at https://www.coastal.ca.gov/laws/
In short, everything below the high-tide mark along the coast is public access. If you own coastal property, you don't own anything below that point and you cannot prevent public access, as explained in Why California's Beaches are ...
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Just think of the subtenant cum owner as two separate people with two separate roles.
Tenant = T
Subtenant = ST
Old owner = OO
New Owner = NO
The rights of the tenant vis-avis the new owner will be informed by the lease and the local laws. Generally, if the sale happens in the middle of the existing lease, the NO is obligated by the terms, as is the T. NO ...
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Adding to Paul's answer, you have considerable protections under GDPR here, and there's a host of angles you can use to get your data removed, or have it not collected in the first place. Your landlord, even as a sole trader, is required to register and pay a fee to do this to the ICO (1), and can be fined up to £4000 if he fails to do so.
You have the right ...
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As you note, it does appear that this tenant has committed one or more crimes.
In Pennsylvania crimes are prosecuted by the state, and you can begin the process by filing a private criminal complaint with your local Magisterial District Court, which will forward it to your county's District Attorney for review and prosecution.
You've essentially written ...
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The default rule is that a landlord can refuse to rent to anyone for any reason, in which case the landlord can refuse to rent in this case.
There are civil rights laws that limit this discretion in the case, for example, of discrimination based on race, or family status. But, those laws often have exemptions for owners of small amounts of property (e.g. a ...
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You have acknowledged that the house was in "new" condition, which establishes a baseline for determining if the present state is normal wear and tear. The lease and California law agree that normal wear and tear is not the responsibility of the tenant. You may then need to sue the landlord in small claims court to get the remainder of the deposit (the above ...
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Short answer: Yes, you can get out. However, this will be harder than you may want it to be.
You will need to check your lease agreement for an arbitration clause. If the lease mentions disagreements will be handled by arbitration (or an arbiter), you need to know that going into this. Arbitration clauses usually stipulate that the landlord picks the ...
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Before you go changing locks, you might want to hire an attorney. There is law in Ohio that governs "such" relationship, which are typically landlord-tenant relationships, but might not be strictly construed the way you'd prefer. In a classic landlord-tenant relationship, it is illegal to change locks on a tenant, and if you want a tenant booted out, you ...
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There is no "theft" without a law that defines what "property" is and what "theft" is.
Laws derive from the state that has the power to enforce them.
A state may issue the laws and decrees and stablish who owns the lands. It can later make changes to that ownership.
When the Normans invaded England, Willian I became the legal authority and with that he ...
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Ownership of coastal land is controlled by the California Civil Code, which reserves land below the mean high water mark to the state:
Section 670:
[670.] Section Six Hundred and Seventy. The State is the owner of all land below tide water, and below ordinary high-water mark, bordering upon tide water within the State; of all land below the water of a ...
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The one answerable question regards the legality of taking the damages out of the security deposit. Consulting the Ohio landlord-tenant law, the tenant has various obligations including to
Dispose of all rubbish, garbage, and other waste in a clean, safe, and
sanitary manner
...
Comply with the requirements imposed on tenants by all applicable
...
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A limitation has to be expressed in lease and must not violate laws related to housing discrimination that apply to the place where the leased property is located.
There are also other terms of a lease that are statutorily prohibited or prohibited at common law (e.g. imposition of a penalty interest rate in excess of the rate allowed by usury laws).
But, the ...
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Can I just not renew their contract and go back to my place in 2 months or do I still need to give them 6 months' notice?
Short answer:
6 months' notice
Long answer:
I'm assuming this is a fixed-term Assured Shorthold Tenancy.
Unless a landlord is going down the Section 8 route where the tenant has broken the tenancy agreement, they will need to serve a &...
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Has this contract been translated (badly) from another language because the construction of the clause is cumbersome and confusing?
Does the contract say that I can have guests over 1 night without charge?
Without charge, yes. However "Without Landlord's prior written consent, Tenant has no excuse to accommodate ..." so you need the landlord's permission ...
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An LLC is a legally distinct entity from your person. Basically, if your LLC is sued, and you lose, you can lose only what you put into your LLC. Your personal assets are untouched.
A very sophisticated plaintiff may try to get around this suing both your LLC and you personally. (I've done this myself.) Even so, if you are careful to keep the business of ...
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Your question seems to be about abandoned property and whether Missouri’s statute on disposing of property after a tenant abandons his/her property applies. See Mo. Rev. State. Ann. § 441.065 (“Abandonment of premises, disposition of remaining property.”)
Assuming there was no agreement (in writing or orally) for the 19 year-old to pay rent, he was most ...
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Residents agree that the receipt of mail by any individual not listed
as a Resident or Occupant in this Agreement at the Leased Premises
shall be proof of occupancy of that individual and a violation of this
Agreement.
I assume that the lease states that only the listed individuals can reside in the unit. Maybe they think that this says that receipt ...
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You should have seen this coming.
This might vary a bit from place to place, however it would generally be accepted that if you are in a rented place, you have to pay rent. Most jurisdictions would have some law which requires pro-rata'd payment for the time you actually stay, there would not be any requiring the landlord let you stay free.
An ...
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Legally (in common-law countries like the UK and US), this is generally handled through adverse possession. Adverse possession is essentially a statute of limitations on land title; it limits how long you can look back to see if a title is valid. If you're openly using land in a manner incompatible with the true owner's use for some number of years, you ...
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