In recent years, several people have tried to talk us into buying a house instead of renting an apartment. They readily acknowledge a mortgage would be a little more expensive than the rent we currently pay and that peripheral expenses like house insurance would be far more expensive than the renters insurance we pay for [...]
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Here is a list of blog posts about nightmare tenants. These are people that seem to be looking for any angle that they can play on a landlord in order to live for as long as possible for free in someone else’s property, at times bending the law against the landlord or simply by ignoring [...]
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Some people who rent assume that their landlord is responsible in the event of a fire or other disaster. The truth is, the landlord bears very little legal responsibility. The landlord most likely carries insurance on the property, but his insurance is geared towards saving him from loss. As a renter, you would not benefit [...]
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Of course, in the real world, apartment living is a little less glamorous, not to mention humorous, than it is in the real world. In the real world, we pay rent, take out renters insurance, pay the utility bills, and actually live in our apartments. But, if we could hop into the TV set for [...]
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One of the first things a man does after he gets divorced is to find a new apartment and renters insurance. Well, actually, this usually happens at some point before the divorce is finalized. Really, what kind of self-loathing masochist is willing to keep on living with the ex while the divorce proceedings are going [...]
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