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Landlord bait-and-switch regarding having pet
It's hard to imagine a jurisdiction where this would be legal, assuming that the facts are as you present them. Mainly, it comes down to what the lease actually says. If the lease says something that ...
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Conditions of a signed lease
You are likely now a holdover tenant, as you have stated that you continue to pay your original monthly rental payments. Check original lease and investigate what happens at end of lease.
P.S. As your ...
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Giving flat to roommate and vacating apartment?
You need absolute written buy in from the landlord.
His agreement is with you, not this new person.
If the new person stops paying for whatever reason, then landlord is coming after you.
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Is Landlord responsible for replacing broken fridge (Door) Handle?
Ontario's Residential Tenancy Act, s. 34 says:
The tenant is responsible for the repair of undue damage to the rental unit or residential complex caused by the wilful or negligent conduct of the ...
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Tenant moves out of townhouse early in Florida on 2 year lease
Eviction is the legal process of removing a tenant from a premise, which can be necessary because the landlord cannot legally throw the tenant out. (The sheriff does it, under orders from a court.) ...
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Is a mandatory fee added to paying one's lease legal?
Until it was found to be unconstitutional, Florida had a law against surcharges for using a credit card (the statute is still on the books, however). That was the only law against "convenience ...
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Can a Tenant Dispute the Validitiy of a Lease Signed by the Landlord's Spouse?
Not successfully
It is not required that a person knows they are dealing with an agent of the principal rather than the principal directly - an agent speaks with the principal’s voice.
Robert has ...
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Lock Repair Dispute - Interpretation of common areas in a lease
All common areas are common areas even if some people can’t access them
Typically. It is possible to create titles within titles that have different levels of common property, but this is usually only ...
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Contradictory terms in a contract - which would prevail?
Both
See Does how a court interpret a contract depend on whether it's a layman or expert who wrote the contract?
Contracts are to be interpreted, among other things, in the light of normal ...
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Is a residential lease signed by one's spouse valid?
It could go either way
Let's dispose of the two trivial cases:
if all parties agree there is a valid lease, then there is a valid lease;
if all parties agree there is no valid lease, then there is no ...
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Giving flat to roommate and vacating apartment?
Ordinarily, you are responsible for the rent and other damages for the duration of the lease, thus for another 12 months. If you walk away from the apartment and don't pay rent, the landlord can sue ...
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Currently without a lease, the lease my landlord sent me has 2 distinct errors
You can modify and sign the lease document, but that won't create a lease agreement. The landlord would need to also agree to the modifications. They could do something like signing the modified ...
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What law(s) require(s) Landlords to clean, or service, appliances that are working sub-standardly? How frequently?
See the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006 (henceforth RTA) section 20.
20 (1) A landlord is responsible for providing and maintaining a residential complex, including the rental units in it, in a good ...
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Besides s. 134 — where does the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006 outlaw requiring tenants to pay for repairs that are the landlord's responsibility?
The answer is more Daedalian than appears on the Standard Form of Lease, because the Standard Form of Lease fails to warn that the RTA never spells out your quoted bullet point explicitly! The reader ...
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My lease agreement has a typo that changes the intended meaning
The TENANT is both of you
The TENANT (i.e. both of you) have to give 30 days notice. And the TENANT (again, both of you) must “ vacate the premises upon termination of the Agreement, unless …”.
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Lease signed before I’m fully approved, do I have a case to get out of the lease?
A lease is a contract. A contract becomes binding once there is an offer and acceptance. Sometimes something smells like an offer, but it is really an "invitation to treat", a sign that they ...
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Can a tenant assume responsibilities for smoke detectors in Minnesota?
The fair reading is that the landlord must always ultimately be responsible for maintaining smoke detectors, even if the lease purports to say otherwise.
The lease could probably shift the economic ...
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(Germany) Does a follow-up lease contract completely supersede the old one?
No, it does not.
The previous contracts have not been canceled since this would need to be done in written form, § 568 Ⅰ BGB.
Thus an amendment or superseding contract according § 311 Ⅰ BGB requires ...
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Terminating the contract early (before tenant moves in)
You have the right to end the lease if the tenant hasn't moved into the property yet and hasn't paid the necessary deposit. However, you should ensure that you follow the correct termination ...
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Contradictory terms in a contract - which would prevail?
I'm not hundred percent sure what the contract means - so if I'm correct, then this will be held against the person creating the contract.
My interpretation is that you safe about £3,000 if you stay ...
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