RENTAL AGREEMENT

A lease, a contract to rent, a written or oral agreement between a landlord and tenant for a period of time and at a certain amount of periodical rent to be paid. … [Read more...] about RENTAL AGREEMENT

(Said to be corrupted from "rent-roll.") In English law. A roll on which the rents of a manor are registered or set down, and by which the lord's bailiff collects the same. It contains the lands and tenements let to each tenant, the names of the tenants, and other particulars. Cunningham; Holthonse. Rental bolls. In Scotch law. When the tithes (tiends) have been liquidated and … [Read more...] about RENTAL

Rent. … [Read more...] about RENTAGE

When a tenant holds back paying full rent due to not receiving all the benefits of a lease, typically due to the landlord's unjustifiable failure to remedy a significant problem for which the landlord is responsible to deliver under the lease. For example, a tenant withholds 5% of the rent after the landlord waits one full week to fix an issue where the tenant did not have hot … [Read more...] about RENT WITHHOLDING

A law that limits the amount of rent a landlord can charge and governs rent increases and has other stringent requirements on the landlord that are usually beneficial to the tenant. Rent control exists in a limited number of cities and states. … [Read more...] about RENT CONTROL