What are Your Tenant Rights and Responsibilities?
Tenants Legal Rights PART 1

• If you are rejected when you are applying as a tenant, you have the tenants legal rights to know why the reason for your rejection.

• If you were rejected by the landlord due to negative feedback about you, you have the right to know what is the negative information that led to your rejection and who provided it (e.g. your previous landlord or employer).

• As a tenant applicant, you cannot be rejected due to your race, religion, nationality, sex, age or disability. This is considered an act of discrimination by the landlord and is strictly prohibited.

• If you are required to pay any utility charges or property bills, you have the tenant legal right to know exactly what they are before you sign the rental agreement.

• It is your rights that you are given the name, contact number and address of a person in charge that you can contact in case of any emergencies or problems.

• You have the right to take legal action against your landlord if he breaks the terms of the rental agreement, violates the local housing laws, mishandles your security deposits or fails to make the rental property in a habitable condition.

• If you require the help of an animal to cope with your physical or mental ability (such as a guide dog for the blind), you have the right to keep the animal on the rental property and the landlord is not allowed to enforce a no-pet policy.

• In some areas, it is your right be a given a landlords inventory list containing the details of the furniture, appliances and fixtures that is being provided by your landlord.

• Your landlord is not allowed to demand security deposits that is over the limit stated in your local landlord tenant laws. This limit is usually equal to 1 to 2 times of the monthly rent.

• In some areas, it is your tenant rights that your landlord pays you interest on your security deposit. When your tenancy ends, you will receive your original deposit amount plus the extra interest.

• Once your lease ends, you have the rights to receive your security within 14 to 30 days of the move-out date.

• If your landlord deducts money from your security deposit, you have the right to receive a written list showing every deduction clearly. Valid reasons for deducting money from your security deposit includes unpaid rent, bills owed and property damage caused by your abuse or neglect.