California Tenants' Rights eBook

Many tenants have to deal with roommates who don''t pull their weight, neighbors who routinely engage in illegal activities, landlords who don''t know -- or won’t follow -- national or state laws and local rent ordinances. Use this book to give you the information and tips you need to protect and assert your rights as a renter in California.

Find out how to:

• understand and negotiate a lease
• inspect a rental before moving in
• fight discrimination
• get needed repairs and maintenance
• deal with a nosy landlord
• break a lease with minimum fall-out
• get your security deposit back
• figure out rules for rent increases
• fight an eviction.