Housing conditions/habitability

Leo

I moved in with a guy in the police academy. A week later his mom comes over and says oh you have to leave we rented room out to someone else AFTER I already moved in. They refused my money and I wasn't able to just leave after just moving in. She did not live there. So they started to harass me. Went through my room, private stuff and locking me out of house. They went and tried to force me to sign bogus documents and tried to file a frivolous lawsuit. I had every legal right to be there but because it was so bad I had to flee as soon as possible.

John

My apartment was flooded on June 19. The landlord did nothing to fix the problem until June 26. I had renter's insurance that paid $5000 in hotels. There were weeks where the landlord did no corrective work. On July 8, the apt manager called to say I could move in on July 9. I called the movers to schedule moving my things back. The earliest they could move my things back is July 14. The landlord is refusing to pay the additional hotel because my apartment is ready. They took over two months to do work that should have only taken three weeks.

Renee

Shown house by agent of hOmes of Bakersfield in the evening very dark out, House was nice on inside and pool was lit by pool light all other lights out, agent told us the house we had app. On down the street would not be ready when snyivipated but this house was available and ready to move in immediately and I have multiple medical conditions that the pool and spa could help according to my Dr. Do eevswitched our app to this house, Boy do i regret that decision. We moved into the home from hell. The day we moved in was first time we got a good look at the exterior of home.

sandeep

We moved into our unit in march 2012 the owner recently sold the apartments in April 2015 so I guess we aren't on a lease the landlord is charging everyone different rent my rent went up 100$ so in April the new landlord took our rent and a couple days later said oh I need to do repairs for which we have to stay elsewhere becaise of mold problems and he was going to put carpet in the spare bedroom he didn't want to give me storage fees or rehoming fees he just wasn't going to charge us rent..in may he told us either move out or let us do the repairs said we have no renters rights because we

gabby

Hello my name is Gabriela
I use to stay at michigan ave
Los angeles my nightmare began about
more than a year ago when my water&power were disconnected due to non payment
Disconnected 08-00-00 anyways i tried calling my landlord about the fact that even tho it was a breach of.contract on his behalf confirming that the lease stated Owner or landlord is responsible for water, sewer, trash and landscaping

Victoria

I moved into Heron Pointe with the expectation of living in a luxury apartment. But until this day it has not happened. The floor on my kitchen has not been fixed in living here almost two years. My bathroom sinks were both rusted, they have installed one new sink and I am still waiting on the second sink, besides there are cigarette stains all over the counter.

CRISELDA

i just recently had my home burn on monday 6-15-15 due to the slumlord that i have/had. he told me from the day that i was going to move in on sep 1 2014 that there were some issues with the home including electrical problems, we continuesly told owner Sonny Wing Chan that we needed to have this issue fixed and he kepted saying he would send someone out but never did, unfortunatley i never called code enforcement, because i was scared of getting kicked out with 7 children.

Kathleen

I have lived in the same apartment for 14 yrs, & have never had any remodeling done, while the other 4 units have all had new flooring & bath & kitchen fixtures. My new landlord wants to raise my rent from $750/mo to $860/mo, so that my rent is the same as the other apartments. CAN HE DO THIS WITHOUT MAKING THE SAME UPGRADES TO MY PLACE AS THE OTHER APARTMENTS? I need help! I can't afford the rent increase.

Rob

There are five renters and the landlord living in a house in Dixon, Ca..

Four of us are living upstairs in a converted attic of three rooms and an additional bathroom. We have our own separate A/C and heat from the bottom floor where the landlord lives with another tenant, and one more empty room the landlord uses as an office.

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