Renting or leasing a home
LIST Code: HO-06-00-00-00
LIST Code
HO-06-00-00-00
Title
Renting or leasing a home
Definition
This category is about the process of renting or leasing a home, and problems that may come up while renting a home, mobile home lot, or while living in a group home or homeless shelter. It includes landlord-tenant issues for private rentals, subsidized homes, public homes, or other situations where the person living in the property doesn't own it. Some scenarios in this category include a dispute with a landlord about rules or property, difficulty getting a security deposit back, the denial of reasonable accommodations for a medical condition, trouble getting a written lease or rental contract, failure to receive basic services or repairs, a threat of eviction, denial or trouble with a housing voucher or subsidy, harassment for rent, denial of relocation assistance from an unsafe rental unit, and denial of a rental unit because of prior juvenile or criminal system involvement.
Terms within it
- Abandoned Personal Property in Rental Home
- Disability rights around housing
- Ending a rental lease early
- Eviction from a home
- Having pets or assistance animals in a rental home
- Landlord access to a rental
- Landlord locking-out or shutting off utilities
- Landlord suing tenant for money
- Landlord taking property for rent owed
- Leases & Rental Agreements for a rental home
- Local regulations of rental housing
- Poor living conditions in a rented home
- Rent charges, increases, and control
- Renters' Insurance
- Renters' housing issues after a natural disaster
- Renting in a Mobile Home Park
- Security Deposit for a rented home
- Tenant Rights, Organizations, and Participation
- Tenant options when landlord is in foreclosure or bankruptcy
Other Taxonomy Terms
These terms in other taxonomies are equivalent to this term. They are mapped to each other.
- NSMI v1 Taxonomy: 1630100
- NSMI v1 Taxonomy: 1630099
- Legal Server Index Taxonomy: LS002-00063
- Legal Services Corporation Taxonomy: 63