Renters' Rights (Quick & legal) [Paperback]

Janet Portman (Author), Marcia Stewart (Author)

Book Description

Series: Quick & legal | Publication Date: March 1999

Knowing your rights and responsibilities can make the difference between a good living situation and a bad one. This plain-English guide is chock full of legal and practical advice on key areas such as leases and rental agreements, rent, privacy, repairs and maintenance, discrimination, security deposits, roommates, and more.

Editorial Reviews

Review

On my scale of one to 10, this outstanding book rates an off-the-chart 12. -- Los Angeles Times

This lively, practical and occasionally humorous new book... makes learning about legal topics interesting and almost fun. -- San Jose Mercury News --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Janet Portman, an attorney and Nolo editor, received undergraduate and graduate degrees from Stanford and a law degree from the University of Santa Clara. She is an expert on landlord-tenant law and co-author of Every Landlord's Legal Guide, Every Tenant's Legal Guide and Renters' Rights. As an attorney, she specialized in criminal defense, conducting trials and preparing and arguing appeals before the Court of Appeal and the California Supreme Court. Janet is the editor of several Nolo books, including Legal Research: How to Find and Understand the Law and How to Seal Your Juvenile and Criminal Records.

Marcia Stewart brings her background in writing and editing on consumer issues to her job as a legal editor at Nolo Press. She is an expert on landlord-tenant law, buying and selling houses, and other issues of interest to consumers. She is the co-author of Every Landlord's Legal Guide, Leases and Rental Agreements and Renters' Rights, and the editor of Nolo's LeaseWriter software for landords. Marcia received a Master's degree in Public Policy from the University of California at Berkeley and has written and edited a wide variety of consumer publications for government agencies and private businesses. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 220 pages
• Publisher: Nolo; 1st edition (March 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0873374118
• ISBN-13: 978-0873374118
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,152,973 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Screw Your Landlord Before He Screws you!, December 27, 1999

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Drake E. Locke (Honolulu, Hawaii) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Renters' Rights (Quick & legal) (Paperback)

This is the best damn book that I have ever bought! Reprisal is bittersweet.

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Sorely lacking, October 11, 2002

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This review is from: Renter's Rights : The Basics (Paperback)

This book was written to be a quick read and it shows. Its chapters for different topics are about 7 or 8 pages long, in double-spaced lines and a big font, meaning there's a lack of useful information. Other than some commonsense tips about picking a place ("make sure it's livable"), living with roommates ("make sure they're people you can live with"), dealing with a landlord ("make sure he's not a creep"), there just wasn't much to justify buying this book. Probably shouldn't have been called "The Complete Moron Tenants' Book."

2.0 out of 5 stars A waste, December 26, 2007

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J. Bushee - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Renters' Rights (Quick & legal) (Paperback)

I found this book to pretty much be a waste. Everything was very general. You pretty much need to get a state specific book to get what you want to know.