Renting Real Estate Questions and Answers

Good websites to look at apartment/home rentals?

I need some! I looked at some on the internet, but didn't enjoy many listings. Are within any websites for rental homes?? Or any rental site would be good


Answers: I used several different sites, close to www.apartmentguide.com, www.apartmentfinders.com, www.rent.com and craigslist for my area.
http://www.craigslist.org

Select your state/city from the menu on the right.
http://www.apartments.com/

Heating for a rental house?

We rent a house and the main warmness source is a coal stove. The stove is messed up and the landlords will not fix it. We had to run out and buy a kerosene heater and an extra electrical furnace for up stairs. We pay $20/week for kerosene. Since steam is considered the landlords responsibility can we take what we spend on kerosene respectively week off of the monthly rent. Only serious answers please. I dont want answers from someone who doesnt know the answer.


Answers: Usually the manager provides the heat source, stove, stove, fireplace, etc. But, is NOT responsible to pay for the fuel/power to operate the roast source.

If the coal stove is the only source he have provided he has to assure that it is functional.
If your lease specifies that the manager is to provide heat and he is not providing bake, he is in contravention of the lease.

That does not entitle you to deduct what you're spending on warmness from your rent, however. (At least not where on earth I live. Here, that can get you evicted.) It entitles you to sue him contained by small claims court for your heating costs. Ordinarily the threat of a lawsuit lights a fire beneath the lazy innkeeper, pun intended.

Contact a lawyer and he can give an account you how to proceed.
I'm not sure what state you live in or what the specific law of that state may be regarding tenant and landlords. Do you have a lease that spells out what the hotelier is and isn't responsible for? If not, then it's probably YOUR responsibility and YOUR expense and can't be deduct from the rent unless the landlord say it's okay.
Where I live, the management company is responsible for keeping the HVAC surrounded by working condition. This is spelled out in the lease.
G00GLE tenant rights in your state.
I read within the paper in the order of a mother who lost her children due to no heat contained by her house. Kerosene is notorious for carbon minoxide poisoning if properly ventalated (sp)
It might be time for you to move
Report your landlord to your local building or housing agency. Some problems may violate local building or housing codes. Call the agency that enforce these codes in your nouns to find out. (Look under the city or county management listings of your phone book.) Officials at the agency should be able to explain whether your problem violate local or state codes, and may be able to rob action against your tenant.

When living within a rented house (in UK) can you leave&expect the other tenant to repay your share of the rent?

Without legal repercussions?


Answers: Well did you sign an agreement to tender formal notice or the resembling? So what if someone else left, would you gamely pay an increased rent share? If near is not agreement between you all, the lowest possible you can do is give a spell of formal notice to vacate. Then the others own time to find a replacement.
When leaving shared rented accomodation minus paying, would you expect your ex-flat mates to hunt you down beside baseball bats - short a toss for the legal repercussions?
I hope you would.
That depends on what it say in the rent book and what agreement you own with the other tenant. If all of the tenant names are contained by the rent book (and on the lease) then if one leaves, the others are in somebody`s debt to pay adjectives the rent between them. However, they can sue you for your share for the duration on the lease - even though you're not living there.

If single one tenant's name appears on the rent book and within the lease - and it's not you - he is responsible for making sure all the rent is rewarded. He could sue you for your share, but he might have difficulty proving what be agreed. (You can use the "oh no I didn't" defence)

If only one tenant's given name appears on the rent book and it's you - you are responsible for paying the rent and can be sued by the landlord for adjectives of it whether you live there or not - and you won't be here to make sure the others reward their shares.

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