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rental lease agreement not upheld I sign a lease to rent a house on Feb.

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rental lease agreement not upheld
I sign a lease to rent a house on Feb. 8 2007. The realtor listing said the property will be ready by March 15, 2007. We signed and put a $500 deposit down which the realtor also stated in thier listing. March 15, 2007 has pass and we did not recicve a phone call. I had call the realtor office and she ask if I could call the current person renting and she also see can she reach them. By not getting the key on the date state puts me in a bind, I’m about the clear my apartment. Also I have stuff that was to be delivered that day, It’s costing me time and money because I planned my move date on the day I was to get the key. What kind of legal actions can I take? I don’t have a place for my family to live and already turned in my written 30 day notice to my current place of residents.

Landlord wants dog out.

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Landlord wants dog out…
Hi,
I’m currently living in North Hollywood, CA. I have a legal question relating to residential leases and pets. I signed a one-year lease on April 1 06. In our lease, there is NO no-pet clause, or anything that even says mentions pets. In May, we got a rescued miniature pincher who was fully trained and house broken. He weighs 9 pounds. Very quiet, doesn’t bark, does not damage any property, and simply isn’t a nuisance to anybody. There are several other dogs in our apartment complex as well (mind you I’m paying $3000/mo for a 3 bed). In July, the landlord decides she doesn’t want dogs because there were complaints of feces in the courtyard (even though I knew it was the ally cats who I’ve been seeing around every morning). She tells us we need to get rid of him or we’ll be evicted. I told her there’s nothing in my lease keeping me from having this non-burdon dog. She told us she’d talk to the owner about it and get back to us shortly. Here it is October 10th, calls us yesterday and tells us that we’re getting evicted because we still have the dog after she told us to get rid of it. We told her you never called us back for one, secondly, we can legally have this dog . Was I right, or can they evict us if we don’t get him out?

Had to break lease due to financial calamity.

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Had to break lease due to financial calamity. Do I have any rights?
I signed a residential lease in May 2003 with a landlord. Shortly afterward my business collapsed and I found myself in dire financial straights within a few months. I hung on as long as I could but in December ’03 I had to vacate the space. This was one of the most popular buildings in Boston’s South End. I lived there 2 and 1/2 years and never knew a space in this building to be vacant for more than a couple of weeks. After I moved out however the landlord let the space sit empty until the term of my lease expired at the end of May ’04 then promptly it in June ’04.
The landlord took a loss on the space for those months and now is trying to have his cake and eat it too by coming after me for the balance of the lease amount plus interest. Doesn’t he have some sort of obligation to make a reasonable attempt to fill the space even though I broke the lease? I am (and have been) willing to discuss some form of settlement with him but his heels are dug in and now he’s stopped talking to me and taken me to court for the full amount plus interest.