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Attorney explains TAA Apartment Lease (part 4)
This video covers pages 5 & 6 of the TAA Lease from Repair requests to Important provisions in your lease, including the prohibition for tenants to sublease a room or the entire apartment to another person. Did you know that this lease requires all repair requests...
How to make a Notice to Vacate good evidence for an Eviction
If you’ve followed my advice, and you've heard me talk about Notice to Vacate before, you know that I strongly recommend and encourage all Landlords to send their Notices to Vacate by regular and/or certified mail. We like the mail because the Courts like the mail. As...
Advantages that Tenants Now Have in Court
Landlords used to have it pretty easy. Back in the olden days, if a tenant didn't pay rent, a Landlord would shut off the electricity or the water, or he might just come and take the front door right off its hinges. However, the law has changed. Tenants have been...
The Value of Performing Background Checks on Potential Tenants
I hear a lot of clients who will say something like, “You know, I really meant to do a background check on this Tenant… Something told me I needed to do it.” [It might have been this blog]. And I'm always baffled by this. You wouldn't, for example, give the keys to...
Rent Relief SHUTDOWN!
The State of Texas received over $2Billion in economic aid for Landlords and Tenants over the last 18 months. This has meant that many families were able to stay in place during an economic crisis. Many Landlords are still unaware of the benefits still available to...
Can my Tenant prevent me from Inspecting my Rental Property?
It's amazing to me how often clients are absolutely shocked when I tell them, “Your Lease allows you to inspect the property even without giving your Tenants notice.” But the Landlords normally believe, “That's not true. I know I have got to give them 24 hours’...
Evicting Your Ex
Yes, this happens, and it happens more often than you might expect. People who own their own homes sometimes make very bad decisions with those homes. That is, they decide to invite someone to live with them and then decide they are no longer interested in the...
How much time do I have to sue my Tenant & Can I garnish wages to collect a judgment?
One question that has to do with a statute of limitations is – “How much time can you sit on a case if your Tenant breached that lease and caused damage to your property?” If you're going to sue with regard to a written or even an oral lease agreement, you have four...
Landlords Losing Money on Repairs
How long is too long to wait to fix a problem cited by a Tenant? Well, that depends on a number of factors. What is the severity of the defect? When did the Tenant give notice of the defect to the Landlord? How practical is it to respond immediately at the time the...
What do I do if my Tenant requests a Jury Trial?
Sometimes you're stuck with that one Tenant that always pays late and just does not know how to leave. So, you have gone to trial in the Justice Court. They've appealed it. And now you're at trial in the County Court. One big complication is that the Tenant has a...
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