Terminate my lease We signed a lease in may.

Terminate my lease
We signed a lease in may. The lease was a standard month to month document. The landlord wanted a 1 year lease on the house. She just wrote year to year lease on the top of the document. As we were reviewing the lease we noticed down further in the document in 1 of the clauses that it said that any party may terminate the lease with a 30 day written notice at any time. The landlord did not cross that line out. We let her know that we wanted to move out and she said that we were not entitled to a 30 day notice. Our reason for moving is because the basement has 8 inches of water in it. (it did have about 2 ft. we pumped out as much as we could)and it has visible mold in it. we took my daughter to the er to have a cough checked out that started just after we moved in. they said that it was due to allergies that was triggered by the mold. 3 days later i took her for a 2nd opinion and that dr said that she had pneumonia really bad and that it was due to the mold spores in the air. she said that it was critical to our daughters health that it was cleaned up or that we move. we let our landlord know and she has done nothing to clean it. Are either of those two reasons grounds for terminating our lease early?

Removing a tenant who rents a room in my home Last month I gave 30 day notice…

Removing a tenant who rents a room in my home
Last month I gave 30 day notice to a woman who rents a room of my home on a month to month basis. She violated the contract she signed when she moved in by repeatedly smoking marijuana in my home and drinking. Also, she is a schizophrenic and went of her meds and scared myself and my other two tenants. Her 30 days is up this week.
My question is–she took off two weeks and go and has not been back. I heard through her sister that she is staying in a motel. What can I do to get her belongs out of my home. I rely on the rent from my tenants to pay my monthly payment. Can I write her of my intentions to remove her belongings and store them in my locked garage? Her mental state she may not even understand. I feel I have a real predicatment and am a little more than anxious. I’m also a little afraid of her, and want to change my locks. Help!! Financially I can not afford to go to court.

adding sun protection to a window HI! I have a question.

adding sun protection to a window
HI!

I have a question. I have been living in an apartment for 2.5 years on a month to month lease. In the summer, it gets really hot here in the san fernando valley. My main apartment window faces to the sun at sunset, so it can get awefully hot in my apartment at this time. My question is this:

Can I add White cardboard and tape it over my windows to reflect the heat? It does not look bad at all and it is inside my apartment. Can the manager tell me to take it down legally? Thanks for all your time and help!

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Rent Increase & Pool Access I have lived in my apartment for 1 year, the rent…

Rent Increase & Pool Access
I have lived in my apartment for 1 year, the rent is $1525.00 and they are increasing the rent to $1600.00 to renew my lease for 6 months. If I choose not to renew my lease they will increase the rent to $1665.00 on a month to month basis. My income has not gone up and I cannot afford this and I cannot move because I don’t have the money to do so. I have lived at these apartments for 5 years in 3 other apartments. My question is, Can they increase my rent this much? Also I have asked them for 3 years to install a pool chair to access the pool. I am a paraplegic and can only use this to access the pool. They have refused to do this so I can not use all 3 pools on the property! I think that they have to install this don’t they? Please let me know your answer as soon as possible because I must decide what to do before July 20. Thank you.