Covers issues with paying your rent or mortgage, landlord-tenant issues, housing subsidies and public housing, eviction, and other problems with your apartment, mobile home, or house.
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Renting
The process of renting or leasing a home, best practices for tenants and landlords, and problems that may come up while renting a home, other than eviction.
Discrimination & Fair Housing
How people in different demographic groups may be protected from discrimination when searching for or living in housing.
Learn More >How Rental Property Owners and Managers can [Legally] and Happily Run a Successful Rental Housing Business
Best practices for property owners and managers.
Learn More >How to be a Smart Renter
Your rights as a renter and the legal steps you can take if there are problems.
Learn More >Rental Agreements
The necessary and optional parts of an agreement between a landlord and a tenant.
Learn More >Money issues you might encounter before, during, and after renting
Difficulties with money that a renter may encounter, such as security deposits, earnest money, and late fees.
Learn More >Eviction
Explores evictions from beginning to end, including ways to counter them and the steps your landlord must take for a legal eviction.
Lockouts & Other illegal evictions
Know your options and rights if a landlord changes your locks, blocks entry to your home, or shuts off your utilities.
Learn More >Possible Defenses
Read about the legal defenses and other strategies that a tenant can use to stop an eviction action or delay removal from their home.
Learn More >Procedure
Dig into the procedure of an eviction both before and after court. This includes the rules, processes, options, and other procedural issues that people may need to understand to protect themselves during this kind of court proceeding.
Learn More >Foreclosure
A look into foreclosure - how to defend against it, and the court process around it.
Manufactured Homes
This section covers the specific rights surrounding mobile homes.
Manufactured Homes
Learn More >Utilities
Electric, energy, gas, and water utilities at home, including financial assistance, utilities being shut off, payment to them, or terminating them.
Utilities while renting
Laws and rights as they relate to utilities while renting a home.
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