Rental housing - not an easy task, and not only in financial terms, but often - and in communicating with the landlord. But you have the right, which can greatly simplify the process of communication with them, and your life as a tenant. List of 10 mineral rights of tenants collected edition of Time Out.
1. You have the legal right to ask the homeowner, repairman or anyone else to leave your apartment at any time.
2. The landlord must give a notice of at least 48 hours before the entrance to the property of the tenant (ie, in a rented apartment), and may do so without prior notice only in the case of an emergency.
3. You can check the official website of the city where a tenant, to see how many complaints have been registered at your address, and what exactly they related disorders.
4. You can check the landlord or owner of the company, asked a few questions of the office staff or the residents of the house in which you are planning to rent an apartment.
5. The rent can be negotiated, but if your landlord is a big company, it will not be very compliant in this regard.
6. If there is no toilet in the bedroom or window, then this is "illegal" bedroom, which can be considered a fire.
7. If the building work carried out major repairs, which may affect the health or safety, you can legally refuse to hire.
8. Do you want to know how stable rents in the building, the apartment in which you shoot? To do this, there is a dedicated website: amirentstabilized.com.
9. The worst thing that can happen to any tenant - bedbugs. The landlord, by law, obliged to get rid of these pests for 30 days, taking care of all expenses for their destruction.
10. You can say bad about the owner of your apartment to his mother, the police, the media - anyone. As long as you are honest, of course. But your landlord may not apply to you for that rent increases or limit you to extend the lease.