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How can I make my former boyfriend move out?
Question: My old Casa Grande High School boyfriend lost his job in San Diego and recently moved back to live with his parents. We went to coffee a couple times and then started dating. My kids are both grown, and I got our nice two-story home in my divorce so…. my old boyfriend moved into one of the downstairs bedrooms. He now has a good job with a local home builder, but he says that he can’t move out until he saves some money. We don’t even go to coffee now, and I think he may have a girlfriend. I…
What can landlord charge for a tenant’s short-term overstay
Question: My daughter rented an apartment in Tempe for $1,600/month for the nine-month ASU school year. One of her professors was ill, so her final exam in that class was extended five days past the original nine-month lease. Her landlord refused to extend the lease even for five days because a summer school student was scheduled to move into that apartment. The landlord filed for an eviction proceeding and now has a judgement against my daughter for the amount of $2,200 (i.e., $3,200 for two months’rent minus her security deposit of $1,000). How can my daughter owe $2,200, plus court…
Eviction Only Allowed After Five Business Days
Question: Our property management company leases a small office building in Glendale. The lease is for five years, with an option for another five years, at the same monthly rent. After we exercised our five-year option, our new landlord was very upset at the same monthly rent, and demanded additional monthly rent. We refused. Our lease has a five-business-day “late rent” default provision. In other words, only if we were late on rent after five BUSINESS days, did the landlord have the right to lock us out. This month our rent was due on Wednesday, the first day of the…
Landlord Not Required to Child-Proof to Rent to Families With Children
Question: We own a short-term rental in North Scottsdale. The swimming pool does not comply with the child-proof regulations, e.g., self-locking gates, so we only rent to adults. Our Realtor brought us a family with three children who wants to rent for two months. She said that we cannot discriminate against families with children, so we need to pay for the repairs to comply with the child-proof regulations. Is she correct? Answer: Probably not. Similarly, a landlord is probably not required to make repairs to accommodate a potential new tenant who is a disabled person confined to a wheelchair.
When An Arizona Landlord Can Charge a 2-Month Penalty
Question: My husband and I were both stationed at Luke AFB. We rented a Glendale apartment for one year at $1,750 per month, with a $1,000 security deposit. Our one-year lease expired June 30. We were transferred to the Presidio in San Francisco effective July 1, but we were unable to move out of our Glendale apartment until July 15, when Presidio base housing finally became available. A new tenant moved into our Glendale apartment the next day. We are OK with forfeiting the $1,000 security deposit and paying the $875 rent for two additional weeks. We have now been…
Landlord Cannot Evict A Tenant For Mental Illness
Question: Our son has had some mental health issues. For the last two years he has lived in a Tempe apartment complex near our home, and we have helped him when he became ill. Last weekend he was babbling incoherently out by the swimming pool, and even yelled at a couple of children who ran home. The property manager called us, and we immediately went over and calmed the situation. The property manager also called the police, who arrived later. The police made a report and left. The next day my son received a notice of eviction from the property…
Rental to Registered Sex Offender is Allowed
Question: Three months ago we rented a small rental home in Cave Creek to a nice young man. The monthly rent payments have been paid on time, and the rental home is in immaculate condition. We recently received an email from one of our former neighbors that this nice young man is a Level Two registered sex offender (RSO), and all of our former neighbors want us to evict him. Do we have to evict him because he is a Level Two RSO? Do we have any liability if he causes someone harm in the neighborhood? Answer: A landlord is…
Landlord Can “Lockout” Delinquent Commercial Tenant Even If Rent Brought Current
Question: We have a small hair salon in a West Valley shopping mall. We recently fell behind on our rent, and the landlord gave us notice that our rent was delinquent, and that the landlord had the right to terminate our lease and “lock us out.” Our landlord then accepted our late payment of the past due rent, and thus we were current on our rent, including late fees, interest, and attorney fees. Last Saturday night, however, we were “locked out” by our landlord so that when we came to work on Monday morning our hair salon was padlocked, and…
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