Family: Making Sense of Your Lease

Making Sense of Your Lease

Written by dan the roommate man

Reading over a lease can be nerve racking. You have to scrutinize every clause in order to make sure you will be comfortable in your apartment, but how can you do that when it seems like it's written in another language?! According to repparttar

Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Office of Residential Services, leases are written in another language... or at least a language of another century. "Leases were developed in medieval Britain and some of repparttar 110455

language used in them dates from that time, much to repparttar 110456

confusion and mystification of modern tenants."

In order to make leases easier to understand, WPI redefined many of repparttar 110457 potentially confusing terms.

ARREARS: Overdue rent

ASSIGN: Transfer repparttar 110458 unexpired portion of a lease to a new tenant

CAUSE OF ACTION: Specific situation that may become repparttar 110459 basis for a lawsuit

CIVIL: A non-criminal legal matter. Housing disputes are generally handled in civil courts

COVENANT: Promise. Independent covenant: You must perform your obligation even if repparttar 110460 other party does not. Dependent covenant: You carry out your obligation on repparttar 110461 condition that repparttar 110462 other party fulfills its obligation

DEFAULT: To forfeit or lose by omission; to fail to perform a legal obligation

DEMISED PREMISES: The place being rented

DETAINER: Withholding another's property against his or her will

DISPOSSESS: Remove a person from land; repparttar 110463 legal action brought for nonpayment of rent

DISTRAINT (proceed by distress): The landlord takes your personal property to force you to pay or eventually sells it to get his or her money

EJECTMENT: Physical or legal eviction from land

EMURE: To take effect

ENJOYMENT: Possession or occupation of land. Quiet enjoyment: freedom from invasion of privacy by landlord

EVICTION: Depriving a person of possession of occupancy. Constructive eviction: not actually removing a tenant but making it impossible for him or her to remain because of repparttar 110464 conditions, such as serious deterioration

GOODS AND CHATTELS: Personal property

INDEMNIFY AND HOLD HARMLESS: To free from any responsibility or liability

How to Make Sure Your Plants Survive the Move

Written by dan the roommate man

If you have house plants, and you're moving to a new location, you have three options: donate 'em, dump 'em, or dare to take 'em with you. So, you may not care for your plants like a "Professional," but Charlie Nardozzi, senior horticulturist for The National Gardening Association, provides some great advice for those who can't bear to leave their precious plants behind:

If you're flying to repparttar new location: "I believe your first step should be to contact repparttar 110454 airline you are travelling with. They most likely have very specific guidelines (and I bet regulations) on transporting plant life. Also contact repparttar 110455 Department of Agriculture in repparttar 110456 state you are moving to; they may also have regulations to prevent repparttar 110457 importation of pests."

If you're travelling by vehicle: "For repparttar 110458 plants that are going in repparttar 110459 truck, you should insure that your plants are in containers that will not break. If they are in terra cotta pots, transfer them to plastic. Perhaps it would be a good idea to go to your local nursery or garden center and ask about those black plastic nursery pots. Around here you can get used ones for a nickel a piece! Be sure to sterilize them however."

Other tips: "Your plants will need to be kept moist during their journey. Give them a good watering and then wrap repparttar 110460 soil tops with sphagnum moss you have soaked overnight. I would then wrap repparttar 110461 whole pot in newspaper, and then in burlap. It probably would not be out of order to loosely wrap repparttar 110462 foliage in burlap also to avoid breakage of leaves and stems."

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