Your Legal Rights

General Residential Tenant Rights

Landlord-Tenant law in plain language. How to deal with defects the landlord refuses to correct, get your security deposit back

Uninhabitable Conditions

Living under Third World conditions? Landlord won't get to it?  Stop being a patient fool! The law gives you authority to take action. Return to America.

The Eviction Process

Turning on the floodlights to show you how it works, and what to do, so that you can win in real terms. You can!

Breaking Your Lease

Sometimes you just have to go, but doing it right makes all the difference how you come out of it. 

Find out if your city has rent control or eviction protection, and whether it applies to you. Not every city has it!

Mobilehome Law

The Mobilehome Residency Law provides special protections for mobilehome owners and now, even trailer park residents!

Security Deposit

Landlords steal security deposits upon false claims of damage. New laws give you extra rights to recover up to triple! Yes, triple.  

Illegal Late Fees

This may come as a shock, but late fees are illegal. Learn about why, and what you can do to turn this to your advantage.

Property for Sale 

A "For Sale" sign appears, an agent wants to show strangers your home, have an open house, and get you out. Now what?

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