Putting down cash for your security deposit? Get a receipt

Moving apartments is an expensive endeavor especially when … it includes the upfront payment of first and last months rent a brokers fee and a security deposit Fortunately you can usually count on getting that deposit …

By Jennifer Laing |October 21, 2014 - 3:02PM
A landlord deducts $500 out of a security deposit for his legal fees. Is this allowed?

… We often receive emails from readers asking for help in navigating their own real estate crises … but it was short $500 for legal fees for my landlord Apparently while he was living there his landlord had refused to … but the following month a legal fee charge appeared on the rent stub We never paid it he adds but we continued to pay …

By Virginia K. Smith |May 15, 2014 - 12:59PM