Eviction laws in many states constitute legalized theft. Non-paying tenants can live rent-free for month using the code-violation trick. The results are disastrous for other tenants, the housing and the neighbohoods.

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Attention:
Here is your ticket to free rent.

Are landlord-tenant laws creating SLUMS?
Housing inspectors talk.

Rent withholding.
Wrecking owners, housing and neighborhoods.

Bankruptcy horror story.
Legal tricks with code violations

Using code violations
to live rent-free.

Archives:

Three tough evictions.
Tenants who know what they can get away with.

How to make your landlord let you live rent-free...
and pay you even more to move out.

Summary process is not summary.
Lengthy eviction ups rent for others.