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Professional tenants, renters who learn — and make use of — legal loopholes to dodge paying rent, are a landlord’s worst nightmare. And although Luna is out thousands of dollars, as ...
The lawsuit was brought against the city-parish of Baton Rouge by a lawyer and Realtor who argued that it unfairly targets college students, young people and non-traditional families.
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Evictions and landlord-tenant cases are civil cases. The theoretical expansion of right to counsel to civil cases was at one time known as "Civil Gideon," after Gideon v. Wainwright , which established the right to an appointed lawyer in criminal cases for defendants who cannot afford one, [ 12 ] but advocates have moved away from that term in ...
A lawsuit for waste can be brought against a life tenant or lessee of a leasehold estate, either by a current landlord or by the owner of a vested future interest. The holder of an executory interest, however, has no standing to enforce an action for waste, since his future interest is not vested. There are several different kinds of waste ...
When a long-term tenant rented out the Las Vegas house he was leasing on Airbnb, the homeowner was socked with over $180,000 in fines for dodging city laws on short-term rentals. The tenant then ...
When a Section 8 voucher participant rents from a participating landlord, the local PHA “pays the difference between the household’s contribution (set at 30 percent of income) and the total monthly rent.” [13] The Section 8 voucher program does not set a maximum rent, but participants must pay the difference between the calculated subsidy ...
Dercks' case is one of 38 lawsuits that the department has filed in recent years, including another case in Janesville where two landlords were required to pay $500,000 to female tenants who ...