This whole past year has been a crisis of landlords price gouging giving a months notice of unaffordable rent increases and then when tenant can’t agree cuz they don’t get a raise at work or can’t find a second, third job they get a 30 day notice of termination of periodic tenancy telling them sorry but you are too poor I’d prefer a richer tenant get out in the street please.

Eastern CT is pretty affordable. Can find places for rent easily under 1500

Listen I’m not saying stays of eviction never happen. All I’m saying is most tenants don’t have a choice if they will sign a lease or not. They are too poor to say no to landlords who either don’t offer them at all or won’t offer a new year to year as standard practice and tell tenants after the first year is over they will move to month to month. I mean god most leases used in Rhode Island it’s practically standard at this point have a clause or provision which signals an automatic switch after a year, to only month to month. Just like many are forced to work at jobs they despise, jobs that abuse them, out of sheer economic desperation many many tenants (the same workers) are basically forced to rent from slumlords and other slimy landlords who don’t provide fair rental contracts. These tenants need to unionize just like workers unionize.

Absolutely wrong. If you don’t sign a lease, then you know you have basically no rights to that property. I have been to dozens of eviction hearings. You don’t need a lawyer to ask the judge for leniency. I’ve seen additional time given for tenants who were 3+ months behind on rent and didn’t have an attorney representing them.

People don’t sign month to month leases they are just told if you don’t do this I’ll terminate your tenancy. Most are economically compelled into that position. And yea maybe if you are a white or middle class tenant with a lawyer you’ll get a stay, but if you are a POC mom with no lawyer who doesn’t know her rights etc sorry but we see a lot of these evictions go down. We have a crisis of the abuse and misuse of these laws.

Warraq

If you can’t leave within 30 days a judge will almost always give you a stay provided you keep paying rent. The reality is when you sign a month to month rental agreement, you agree to those conditions and know you can be put in a situation where you need to be out within a month. If that’s not doable it is probably worth requesting a year long agreement so you can get three months notice.

Not just time limit, but it isn’t that you have an eviction if you get kicked out, it’s you have an eviction if any landlord ever just simply filed for one, like you said.

Woonsocket or West Warwick. Maybe EP, Pawtucket or CF…..

It does suck. One politician is introducing a virtual testimony bill because of how inaccessible they are. Otherwise write or call your politicians and tell them you care about these issues and that you and your friends vote.

I have lived in Woonsocket for over 30 years now. My house was broken into once, and my car twice over that timespan. While there are drugs and crimes everywhere, I feel safe here. The rents do range from 1200-25,00 a month, presumably depending upon how long the property owner has owned it and how many rooms it has and so on. I do believe that it is possible to find something for your price.

Hey now, don’t put that on burrillville!

Can’t be us cause we don’t have color photography yet! /s

In this economy who can just up and leave in 30 days? Most people face immediate homelessness and aren’t going to just hit the streets, they overstay because they can’t find another apartment.

I’ve heard it from the best lawyers in the state who handle evictions cases every day, every week and they have told me if you haven’t given proper notice (20 days) and / or deduct more that the legal $125 then you are likely seeing an eviction filed against you for non-payment of rent. It doesn’t matter that it’s probably an illegal retaliatory eviction they still happen and sometimes judges grant them if tenants don’t have enough documentation etc

Termination of tenancy is also known as “no fault” evictions.

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It kinda seems like your inability to explain your logic, then falling back onto saying that words have no meaning is you coping. I'm just trying to understand what you're trying to say, I'm not sure what coping I would be doing.

West Warwick

I’m a property manager that works for multiple landlords… and I have had some awful landlords which I normally have to drop this clients with in three months. We always take a deposit upfront from new clients so we don’t find ourselves with a bunch of repairs and unable to fix them. There is no applications for landlords unfortunately. But, there is good and bad tenants and good and bad landlords. Often landlords can’t afford repairs due to people not paying their rent and it turns into a vicious cycle. Desperation will turn the best of landlords in to slum lords.

Philly

Old buildings and old infrastructure, from the days when lead pipes and lead paint were the norm.

Lead remediation costs money, and landlords aren't super interested in taking care of the issue. They just paint over the peeling walls and leave it to the renter not to eat the paint and get their own filtration systems. (Note that Brita filters do not remove lead.)

As for rats, we're in a city with lots of places for them to live. Although Providence instituted standardized garbage toters over a decade ago, that doesn't stop folks from feeding wildlife, having stacks of wood for their fireplaces, and doing other otherwise benign things that make the city appealing for them. Holes in old foundations make easy entries into buildings.

The tenant laws favor the landlord.

Burrillville

That’s untrue. You can’t evict someone unless they are behind on their rent or refuse to leave the premises after getting notice. You can certainly terminate the rental agreement- which is legal with 30 days notice. But unless the person refused to leave, they wouldn’t have an eviction on their record.

To be frank, good apts (like good jobs) in RI are hard to find “unless you know a guy”. By the time you hear of a good place it would probably get rented to a friend of a friend before your application gets completed. I’m not trying to discourage you but just want you to know it will definitely be hard for you. A lot of people use realtors to find apt from what I hear.