Basic Legal Rights Rental Lease Agreement
Tenants have basic legal rights that are always present, no matter what the rental agreement or lease states. These rights include all of the following:
• limits on the amount of the security deposit that the landlord can require you to pay.
• limits on the landlord’s right to enter the rental unit.
• the right to a refund of the security deposit, or a written accounting of how it was used, after you move.
• the right to sue the landlord for violations of the law or your rental agreement or lease.
• the right to repair serious defects in the rental unit and to deduct certain repair costs from the rent, under appropriate circumstances.
• the right to withhold rent under appropriate circumstances.
• Rights under the warranty of habitability.
• protection against retaliatory eviction.
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