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    Explore the legal rights and responsibilities of the tenant and the landlord. Tenant-landlord law The federal registration as well the state property laws lays out the laws surrounding both the tenant and the landlord. Houses, mobile homes, apartments, are governed property laws. These laws are documented in the Landlord and Tenant Acts 1967 to 1994, Residential Tenancies (Amendment) as well as Residential Tenancies Act 2004. These laws do not cover tenants who have rented a room in the landlord’s home

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    Tenant Education

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    Tenant Education: a Treatment, not a Cure In Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond, it is stated that landlords in the city of Milwaukee evict roughly 16,000 adults and children each year, amounting to approximately 16 families evicted daily through the court system, and many more removed by other, even less pleasant means (4). Many communities across America have started to offer tenant education programs to teach renters how to manage their money and their relationships

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    Landlord-Tenant Law The legal rights and responsibilities of the tenant and landlord. When it comes to legal rights and responsibilities to landlords and tenants it can be very hard and convolutive.The landlord and tenants rights and responsibilities are usually written on the creation of the lease.It remains in place regardless ofif covered in the lease or rental agreement. Landlords have innumerable rights, including their rights to choose who will live in their rental properties and set lease

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    Tenant Evictions

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    landlords have all the power and tenants have none.”(Giwargis) The San Jose city council recently voted to require just cause for tenant eviction, requiring landlords to provide a reason for not renewing tenant leases. This is a profound change to the law. Previously, the city had a no cause eviction policy. Now a reason must be provided, prior to eviction. Landlords and tenants stand on different sides of this issue and the vote was close. The rights of tenants as well as those of landlords must

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    Losing Tenants

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    Losing tenants can be expensive. You're losing the rental amount, but you're also spending money in advertising and labor intensive tasks to turn over the apartment. Renter retention is vital for your business, and happy tenants stay in their units for years. There are unique challenges that go along with owning an apartment building whether it's one unit or a large rental property. In some cases, it's easier to have procedures in place when you're overseeing more than one unit. It becomes your job

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    Losing A Tenant

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    Losing a tenant, especially a good one, is always an unpleasant experience, but you can still use the situation to your advantage. Obviously tenants who leave have very specific reasons for doing so and discovering these reasons can be very enlightening. Through the use of exit interviews and surveys you are able to pinpoint what it is that cause tenants to move out, which in turn enables you to address these issues. In many cases the reason for tenants leaving are completely preventable and by discovering

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    hands for farming and production use. From this need for new field hands came sharecroppers, a "response to the destitution and disorganized" agricultural results of the Civil War (Wilson 29). Sharecropping is the working of a piece of land by a tenant in exchange for a portion of the crops that they bring in for their landowners. These farmhands provided their labor, while the landowners provided living accommodations for the worker and his family, along with tools, seeds, fertilizers, and a portion

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    Landlord-Tenant Law

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    Landlord-Tenant law Name Professor Course Date The landlord has responsibilities which include the responsibility to deliver possession of the house to the tenant, duty not to interfere with quiet enjoyment, and a duty to ensure the house is in an habitable condition. The landlord should deliver the house to the tenant at the beginning of the lease. This burden is placed on the landlord because he has more resources over the house than the new tenant. The landlord should not interfere with

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    conflict between father and son, each of whom embrace different values. Interwoven into the story is class conflict between wealthy white landowners, tenant farming whites, and sharecropping African Americans. At the same time, you have another conflict between the three this dealing with race. The story also addresses the evils of slavery, tenant, and sharecropping and the vast social economic fallout that is left in the wake of end of the reconstruction era in the South. With the literal barn burning

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    sharecropping and tenant farming. Sharecropping and tenant farming began during the end of the Civil war all through the great depression. Sharecropping is an agreement between a tenant and a landlord in which a tenant farmer is allowed to work and live on a piece of land for free, but in exchange for living there for free, they give the landlord a share of the crop they grow. Sharecropping was mainly big in the southern states where slavery was once legal. The pay for being a tenant farmer was very

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