Tenants: Keep Your Landlord in Check

The landlord tenant relationship is a notoriously difficult one. More often than not, it's an unbalanced struggle of power. But there are measures that tenants can take to keep the peace at home.

Renters shouldn't live in a place that barely passes code, but rather a place of comfort and safety lasting more than a 12 month lease. With 2011 in motion, here are a few details worth battling with your landlord before their apathy, laziness and frugality drives you to seek the next rental.