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By billing only the owner, they can place liens on real property if not paid (as opposed to tenants they may not know exist or who have little to lose if they move without paying). Utilities also generally prefer not to have water meters beyond their easement (i.e., the property boundary), since leaks to a service line would be before the meter ...
If an evicted tenant refuses to leave the property, landlords cannot create a hostile environment that would force a tenant to leave the property, a process known as "constructive eviction". [47] For example, landlords may not change a tenant's locks, cut off water or heat, or shut off other essential utilities. [48]
When the seller or existing renter stay, they become your tenant and should be treated as such. You just bought your dream home. But the house comes with a tenant.
The landlord does have some protection. Any damage to the real property caused by the tenant's removal of trade fixtures must be repaired or paid for by the tenant. If a trade fixture is not removed when the tenant moves out, those trade fixtures become the landlord's property through the process of accession. For example, if a restaurant goes ...
Tenant unions are legal in Oklahoma, however the state does not have anti-retaliation laws to prevent landlords from finding ways to evict or otherwise penalize residents with whom they have issues.
Apr. 18—Pennsylvanians can get help paying rent or utility bills before losing their home or having services shut off through a program that gave $1.3 million to Luzerne County residents in the ...
Constructive eviction is a circumstance where a tenant's use of the property is so significantly impeded by actions under the landlord's authority that the tenant has no alternative but to vacate the premises. [1] The doctrine applies when a landlord of real property has acted in a way that renders the property uninhabitable. Constructive ...
By Tom Hals (Reuters) - Victims of the Los Angeles wildfires, likely the costliest in U.S. history, are seizing upon a unique California legal doctrine that allows them to collect from their power ...