Notes: Commercial Law — Consumer Protection Act — Landlord-Tenant — Remedies — Private Action by Tenant under Maryland's Consumer Protection Act Requires Demonstration of Actual Loss or Injury, i.e., Diminution in Rental Value, in Order to Justify Restitutionary Award of Rents Paid for the ...
When a Tenant violates a term of the rental Lease Agreement, the Landlord may terminate the Lease. However, it’s often in the Landlord's best interest to simply use the terms of the Lease to resolve the issue and to take steps to ensure that the Tenant complies with the Lease Agreement...
Anthony Gignac pretended to be a rich sheikh throughout his adult life. According to federal prosecutors, Gignac has been arrested for impersonating a Saudi prince at least 11 times and been in and out of prison. In 2019, AMiami federal judgesentenced him to more than 18 years years in pris...
However, if you live in certain places in California, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Minnesota, or Oregon, you may be lucky enough to find yourself living in a rent-controlled or rent-stabilized apartment. That means there’s certain limitations as to how much your landlord can raise the ...
Only California, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, and Oregon deploy some form of rent control today, mostly concentrated in a few municipalities and not without restrictions. For landlords, the language of victimization, which both identity politics and right-wing grievance draw ...
the New York tenant, said. Plus, fewer evictions inevitably lifts a tremendous cost to the city from homeless shelters, emergency rooms, and law enforcement. And preserving thousands of affordable units frees local government from needing to subsidize new ones. Providing lawyers to low-income tenan...