Covers issues with paying your rent or mortgage, landlord-tenant issues, housing subsidies and public housing, eviction, and other problems with your apartment, mobile home, or house.
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Renting
The process of renting or leasing a home, best practices for tenants and landlords, and problems that may come up while renting a home, other than eviction.
Discrimination & Fair Housing
How people in different demographic groups may be protected from discrimination when searching for or living in housing.
Learn More >Landlord Best Practices
How Rental Property Owners and Managers can [Legally] and Happily Run a Successful Rental Housing Business
Learn More >How to be a Smart Renter
Your rights as a renter and the legal steps you can take if there are problems.
Learn More >Rental Agreements
The necessary and optional parts of an agreement between a landlord and a tenant.
Learn More >Money issues with renting
Difficulties with money that a renter may encounter, such as security deposits, earnest money, and late fees.
Learn More >Owner's foreclosure during tenancy
What a tenant can do when their landlord's property is in foreclosure, or if their landlord is in the bankruptcy process. It covers what their rights are, what happens if they face eviction based on their landlord's situation, how their lease may change, or if there are new owners of the property.
Learn More >Public & Subsidized Housing
Learn the ins and outs of public housing and subsidized housing, including housing vouchers and project-based subsidized housing.
Learn More >Owning Your Home
This section describes everything related to owning a home.
Deeds
This section covers issues with drafting, revising, transferring, or dealing with problems with a deed (the legal document about ownership) for a home. This typically done when a home property is being sold and transferred. This covers what kind of deeds are needed, how it is written, how it is recorded, and to deal with other problems.
Learn More >Mortgages
This section covers issues that a homeowner might have with taking out a mortgage, finding support and opportunities, dealing with scams, keeping up on their obligations, and understanding their options if problems arise.
Learn More >Eviction
Explores evictions from beginning to end, including ways to counter them and the steps your landlord must take for a legal eviction.
Lockouts & Other illegal evictions
Know your options and rights if a landlord changes your locks, blocks entry to your home, or shuts off your utilities.
Learn More >Possible Defenses
Read about the legal defenses and other strategies that a tenant can use to stop an eviction action or delay removal from their home.
Learn More >Procedure
Dig into the procedure of an eviction both before and after court. This includes the rules, processes, options, and other procedural issues that people may need to understand to protect themselves during this kind of court proceeding.
Learn More >Foreclosure
A look into foreclosure - how to defend against it, and the court process around it.
Procedure
The procedure once someone is going through the foreclosure process, both before and in court.
Learn More >Alternative Housing Options
This section discusses alternative options for housing including: halfway houses, long-stay motels, shelters, and nursing homes.
Halfway houses
This section describes information on halfway houses as an alternative housing option.
Learn More >Long-stay motels
This section describes information on long-stay motels as an alternative housing option.
Learn More >Shelters
This section describes information on shelters as an alternative housing option.
Learn More >Manufactured Homes
This section covers the specific rights surrounding mobile homes.
Manufactured Homes
Learn More >Utilities
Electric, energy, gas, and water utilities at home, including financial assistance, utilities being shut off, payment to them, or terminating them.
Utilities while renting
Laws and rights as they relate to utilities while renting a home.
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