by kelleyandgrantlaw | Nov 9, 2020 | Articles, Association Law, Landlord Tenants
Recently, there’s been a lot of controversy surrounding HUD’s April 2016 Housing Update which limits the use of criminal records in background checks. While the area of law is complex, and will undoubtedly evolve over the upcoming months and years, it is important for...
by kelleyandgrantlaw | Nov 8, 2020 | Articles, Landlord Tenants
Florida landlords now can evict tenants more quickly — but tenants enjoy new protections when it comes to security deposit refunds and one-sided leases. Those are three of the changes state lawmakers made last month to the Residential Landlord-Tenant Act. The...
by kelleyandgrantlaw | Nov 6, 2020 | Articles, Landlord Tenants
A landlord of a 4-unit complex has a policy of not providing assigned parking spaces. A tenant with a mobility impairment, who has difficulty walking, requests a reasonable accommodation in being given an assigned accessible parking space in front of the entrance to...
by kelleyandgrantlaw | Nov 5, 2020 | Articles, Landlord Tenants
A holdover tenant is one who does not vacate at the end of the lease term. In Florida, leases do not automatically renew unless the lease specifically states that it will. Barring any provision in the lease, the tenant is expected to vacate the premises and no warning...
by kelleyandgrantlaw | Nov 3, 2020 | Articles, Landlord Tenants
One of the biggest issues property managers and landlords face is whether to return the security deposit, after being forced to evict a non-paying tenant. An evicted tenant does not automatically forfeit the security deposit. The landlord or property manager must...
by kelleyandgrantlaw | Nov 2, 2020 | Articles, Landlord Tenants
Most landlords enter into one year written leases with tenants. At the end of one year, the lease will expire (unless there is an automatic renewal clause). At that point, the landlord can decide if he or she would like to renew the lease with the current tenant,...
