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    Room and board at a trailor park

    Attached is a description of a Tenancy at Sufferance: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/tenancy-at-sufferance.asp Gail
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    Security Deposit Terminating Lease, Can Landlord keep security deposit?

    Are you saying that your lease is up and you have provided notice that you do not wish to renew this...or are you saying you are breaking your lease early and believe that sending a 30 day notice relinguishes you from further rent responsibility? Gail
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    I have a question concerning application fees

    What do you mean when your wrote "I have an email from the company stating they did not my application"? Did not run your credit check? Did not accept your application? Gail
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    Holding Deposit

    Holding deposits are quite legal in California. Gail
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    Tenant Moved - Do I Need to Have Sherriff Execute a Writ of Possession?

    The OP indicated that their rental property is in California, not Pennsylvania.
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    Repairs, Maintenance been complaining for 7 months re needed repairs not getting too far

    http://www.dca.ca.gov/publications/landlordbook/repairs.shtml
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    My landlord has been cussing me out thru text.

    "I pay my bills." Except, it appears, for your rent. Please understand that Georgia is a very landlord friendly state. You need to stop worrying about how mean our landlord spoke to you and begin worrying about sitting on the curb with all your belongings, evicted for nonpayment of rent...
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    60 day notice to move with only one tenants name on it

    You need to understand the difference between a notice to terminate a lease and an eviction. If, by chance, your mother has a "tenancy at will"; i.e., is on a month to month lease, such leases can be terminated rather easily by either party with the appropriate written notice. Most states...
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    My landlord has been cussing me out thru text.

    Your landlord also does not deserve to be stiffed for the rent until the end of May. And the issue was not that the landlord was not in town when rent was due; the issue was that you did not pay your rent when it was due. It is extremely easy to evict a tenant in for nonpayment of rent...
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    Security Deposit Withheld deposit --- no lease or written contract

    What state do you reside in? What makes you believe your landlord has to provide you with a security deposit the day you move out of the rental unit? Gail
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    On 2/01/12 lease became month-to-month. Now landlord insists on a new 1-year lease.

    The attached discusses the differences between month to month tenancies and longer leases. There are advantages to having a lease that covers a specific time period (for example, unless the lease specifies a periodic increase in rent, the amount of rent remains the same throughout the lease...
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    tenant issues

    Do you have an actual legal question that we can try to answer? In other words, what do you wish to accomplish? Does your lease specify the amount of rent you are to pay on a monthly basis? If so, that is your legal document regarding your rent amount. Do you live in a state where you...
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    Security Deposit deposit,one month rent plus standing order of extra mths

    Your posting is impossible to understand without some type of punctuation.
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    Repairs, Maintenance Can I break my lease? Long, but detailed.

    Frankly, many of your issues sound petty. Did the previous management come in and scrub out your bathtub? Unlikely. Fill a bottle with a combination of bleach and water or hydrogen peroxide and water and spray down the mildew in your bathtub. And the hole in bathroom wall just magically...
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    Landlord suing for damages after four months...

    "We did not leave our new address" Suggest your review section E in the attached: (a) Every landlord shall within thirty days of termination of a lease or upon surrender and acceptance of the leasehold premises, whichever first occurs, provide a tenant with a written list of any damages to...
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    Security Deposit 29 days termination notice in Feb

    Is he not returning your security deposit and instead using it for March rent? Gail
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    Landlord shouldn't have certain rights

    From your posting, it appears that all discussions regarding what you "expected to be fixed" prior to moving in were verbal. Thus, you had no evidence to prove that this discussion even took place....and the judge dismissed your case due to lack of evidence to prove your side of the story...
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    harrassment

    When a tenant and management make a change to the lease (in this case changing the date rent is to be paid) it is always a good idea to get these changes in writing should questions come up later. Gail
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    Landlord will not give me an answer

    Florida's statutes regarding security deposits are outlined in the attached: http://www.800helpfla.com/landlord_text.html If the time period for returning this has passed, the landlord has lost his chance to keep any for damages. Your mother can always consider filing a lawsuit for this...
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    Forwarding Address Required for Security Deposit?

    "When returning house key, do I need to ask my roommate to sign a receipt? I'm just afraid that she will tell the judge that she has never received my key, and that I am liable for the rent during the time I'm 'keeping' the key, if I just leave it on the kitchen counter top or at her door."...
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