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Late Rent Fees: State Limits and What’s Legal
Rent is due on the 1st, but the money is not in your account until the 3rd. Most tenants have been there. The question is what happens next:...
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Prorated Rent: How to Calculate It When Moving In or Out
Moving into a new apartment on the 1st of the month is convenient, but life rarely works out that neatly. Maybe your lease starts on the 14th, or...
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Squatter’s Rights by State: Adverse Possession Explained
Squatter's rights sound like a legal myth, but they rest on a real doctrine called adverse possession. In every U.S. state, a person who occupies someone else's property...
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Cash for Keys: How Lease Buyout Agreements Work
Eviction is expensive, stressful, and slow. For landlords, it can mean months of lost rent and thousands in legal fees. For tenants, it means a court record that...
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Section 8 Vouchers: Guide for Tenants and Landlords
The Housing Choice Voucher Program, commonly called Section 8, helps more than two million American households afford rental housing. It is the federal government's largest rental assistance program,...
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Rent Control vs Rent Stabilization: What’s the Difference?
Rent control and rent stabilization sound like the same thing, and many people use the terms interchangeably. In the United States, though, they describe two different systems with...
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How to Audit Your Commercial Lease for CAM Overcharges
Common area maintenance charges are one of the most misunderstood line items in a commercial lease. Every year, tenants across the United States pay their CAM bills without...
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Exclusivity Clauses in Commercial Leases Explained
Opening a specialty coffee shop in a shopping center, only to watch the landlord lease the space next door to a competing coffee chain, is a nightmare scenario...
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Relocation Clauses in Commercial Leases Explained
Imagine signing a ten-year lease for the perfect office suite, building it out to your specifications, then receiving a letter from your landlord: you are being moved to...
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Continuous Operation Clauses in Retail Leases
Most commercial tenants assume that as long as they pay rent, they can run their business however they like. In retail leases, that assumption is often wrong. Many...