landlord & tenant

three-day notice

In landlord-tenant law, a three-day notice is a notice served to tenants, who are delinquent in rent, demanding for the rent amount or to vacate the premises. Issuing a three-day notice requires proper service, and jurisdictions often have...

title (property)

In matters of property, Title constitutes the legal basis of ownership. Distinct from possession, title is sometimes synonymous with absolute ownership. Depending on the property, title is represented by documentary evidence of ownership, such as a...

Title X

Title X, also known as the Residential Lead-Based Paint Reduction Act of 1992, was an act aimed to protect families, and especially young children, from exposure to lead from paint, dust, and soil. Title X imposes several requirements. For...

toxic mold

Toxic mold is a term that is used to describe types of mold that are considered deadly to humans. Toxic mold encompasses hundreds of species of mold, a small fraction of which are not very harmful to the human body. Mold is a form of fungus...

trade fixture

Trade fixture is something attached to property rented by the lessee which they are entitled to take with them after the lease ends. Trade fixtures can be many things such as a machine or shelves which require the object to be fastened to the...

triple net lease

Triple net lease (NNN) is normally a commercial lease where the lessee pays rent and utilities as well as three other types of property expenses: insurance, maintenance, and taxes. Triple net leases are very popular for investors because they...

unlawful detainer

An unlawful detainer, also known as an eviction lawsuit, is a summary proceeding to determine the right to possession of real property. Moreover, the sole issue in an unlawful detainer action is possession of the premises, and no other issue...

voluntary waste

Voluntary waste, also referred to as affirmative waste, refers to overt and willful acts of destruction performed by a tenant or life tenant that lead to the drop in value of a piece of property by harming the property or depleting natural...

waste

When a person (ie. a tenant or a life tenant) who is merely in possession of property, abuses, destroys, or permanently changes the property.

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