Renters – Attorney Recommendation

[powayseller]

Renters, keep this name handy.

The Tenants Legal Center, a low-cost law firm handling only tenants. They represented me in my case against my landlord who illegally kept my deposit. I won.

Last week, I asked them to review my 2-year lease. Attorney Kellman explained to me that a sale keeps my lease intact, but a foreclosure can invalidate my lease (depending on whether the lease was signed before or after the deed of trust).

[Anonymous]

Sorry to hear you are having trouble with your landlord. i thought you had found a great one?

[lostkitty]

She did not say she was having trouble with her landlord. She said she was having a lease reviewed. Smart thinking in my opinion.

[sdrealtor]

Funny! I thought she said “They represented me in my case against my landlord who illegally kept my deposit. I won.”

That sounds like a problem to me. I guess you some sort of mind link with her that allows you to understand what she means instead of what she writes.

[lostkitty]

No mind link… I just understood that portion of her post to be past tense, a different landlord than the one she has now. An incident resolved.

Obviously it is something in the past since she was litigating over a landlord keeping a deposit. Deposits are not returned until a person MOVES OUT. Do you think she would still be renting from someone she had to get legal representation against?

I know you said you have multiple advanced degrees, but between your spelling and your continual misinterpretation of people’s posts. Attention to detail….

[sdrealtor]

I guess I missed the part where she said “her former landlord” which would be the past tense you speak of not the present tense reference she made to “my landlord”

As clairvoyant (sp?) as I am, I have no way of knowing whether she moved in the month.

Attention to detail………

[powayseller]

I lived in a rental house for 2 years while buiding my house. When I moved in September 2005, the landlord kept my deposit. I sued, and won. She appealed, and lost. Now I filed a rent lien, so her tenant has to send the next rent payment to the courts.

There are hassles with renting, same as with owning. I once bought a house which leaked in 8 places in the first rain. The inspector had not gone up on the roof. We had to replace the entire roof.

Please keep in mind the lawyer. He answers a rental advice column in the Sunday paper. It’s the front page of one of the Home sections.

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