Virginia Landlord-Tenant Law: Rights, Rent, and Rules
A plain-language guide to Virginia’s landlord-tenant rules under the VRLTA, covering leases, security deposits, repairs, rent, notices, and eviction.
Landlord & Tenant
How to handle security deposits, evictions, lease termination, and habitability issues — for renters and landlords.
Implied Warranty of Habitability in Michigan: What It Covers
Michigan’s implied warranty of habitability under MCL 554.139 requires rentals to be fit for use and kept in reasonable repair. This covers what the warranty requires, which conditions breach it, and what remedies a tenant has when a landlord will not fix the problem.
North Carolina Security Deposit Rules: Limits and Refund Deadline
How much a North Carolina landlord can charge as a security deposit, what it can be used for, and the 30-day deadline to return it under the Tenant Security Deposit Act.
How to Break a Lease in Virginia Without Penalty
The Virginia situations that let a tenant end a lease early without a financial penalty, the written notice each one requires, and what a tenant owes when no legal ground applies.
Michigan Landlord-Tenant Law: Rights, Rules, and Deadlines
An orientation to Michigan landlord-tenant law: the statutes that govern leases, security deposits, repairs, and eviction, and where each rule comes from.
Breaking a Lease in New Jersey Without Penalty
New Jersey lets tenants leave a fixed-term lease without penalty only for defined reasons, death, disability, domestic violence, or military service. For everyone else, the landlord’s duty to re-rent limits what is owed.
Virginia Squatters Law: Adverse Possession and How to Remove Them
What “squatters’ rights” mean in Virginia, how the 15-year adverse possession rule under Va. Code § 8.01-236 works, and the unlawful detainer process an owner uses to remove someone occupying property without permission.
Michigan Residential Lease Requirements: What a Lease Must Include
Michigan lets landlords write their own leases, but the Truth in Renting Act and the security deposit law set required notices, prohibited clauses, and disclosures every residential lease must respect.
Michigan Eviction Process: Timeline From Notice to Lockout
A step-by-step timeline of the Michigan eviction process, from the written notice a landlord serves first through the district court hearing, judgment for possession, and the writ of restitution that authorizes a lockout.
Virginia Security Deposit Law: Limits and 45-Day Refund
What Virginia law says about the maximum security deposit, the 45-day return deadline, allowed deductions, the move-out inspection, and recovering a deposit that is wrongly withheld.
Squatters’ Rights in New Jersey: Adverse Possession & Removal
A squatter in New Jersey has no automatic right to stay. This covers the 30-year adverse possession rule, the ejectment process owners use to reclaim possession, and when criminal trespass applies.
Virginia Warranty of Habitability: What Landlords Must Fix
Virginia protects habitability through the Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, not a separate implied warranty. Here is what landlords must fix and the remedies tenants can use when they don’t.