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The Rights of Tenants in Maine The Rights of Tenants in Maine Find more easy-to-read legal information at www.ptla.org Contents Page How To Use This Handbook…………………………… 2 Tips Before You Rent…………………………………... 2 Types of Rental Agreements…………………..………. 3 Security Deposits…………...………………………….... 4 Rent and Late Fees...……..………….…………………. 7 General Assistance………...….……...…………….. 8 Rent Increases……………………………………….. 8 Unsafe or Unfit Housing……………...…………...…..... 9 Evictions…………………..………………………………. 15 Notice or Warning………………………..………….. 16 Court Hearing………..……………..…………….….. 17 Defenses………...……...………………………….… 18 Abandoned Property……………………………………. 20 Sale or Foreclosure of Your Building…………………. 21 Discrimination……………………………………………. 22 Victims of Domestic Violence and Stalking…………… 22 Heat and Utility Charges for Common Areas………… 24 Cable TV, Dishes, Antennas…………………………… 24 Subsidized Housing……………………………………... 26 Mobile Home Parks…………………………...………... 26 Park Rules……………………………………………. 27 Eviction……………………………………………….. 28 Unsafe or Unfit Conditions………………………….. 30 Sale of Your Mobile Home………………………...... 31 Sale of Park…………………………………………… 31 PTLA #639 (09/11; 10/15 updates) Rights of Tenants in Maine #639 Page 2 How To Use This Guide Make a list of major problems in the apartment. Include the condition of This guide gives you a quick look at Maine's walls, floors, windows, and other areas. landlord-tenant laws as of October 2015. Try to get the landlord to sign your list. The law is always changing. Also, you may This will help protect you when it comes need more information. If you have a time to move out. problem with your landlord, ask for legal help. Call Pine Tree Legal or a lawyer you If the building was built before 1978, know. beware of possible lead-based paint problems. Owners of these older If your rent is subsidized, read the buildings must tell you of any known "Subsidized Housing" section at page 26 lead-based hazards and show you any first. If you own your own mobile home relevant records before you rent. Your and rent a lot, go to “Mobile Home Parks” landlord must give you a form notice at page 26. explaining the dangers of lead-based paint. He must also give you a This handbook sometimes refers you to government pamphlet called “Protecting Small Claims Court. Call Pine Tree Legal Your Family from Lead in Your Home.” or your local District Court for instructions. (See more at page 9.) Area Pine Tree Offices Find out who pays for hot water, heat, electricity, parking, snow removal, and trash disposal. Office Telephone Augusta 622-4731 Find the utility controls. Ask questions. Bangor 942-8241 Where is the thermostat? Who controls Machias 255-8656 it? Where is the electric box? Where is Lewiston 784-1558 the hot water heater? Portland 774-8211 Presque Isle 764-4349 You have the right to know the energy Multi-lingual language line: 774-8211 costs for the living unit before you rent. TTY: 711 If you will be paying an energy bill (such as electric or heating oil), ask the energy supplier for billings on your unit Tips Before You Rent for the past 12 months. The company must tell you. Or ask to see the Read the lease or rental agreement landlord's “Energy Efficiency Disclosure carefully before you sign or put money Statement.” (Contact the Maine Public down. Ask about anything you do not Utilities Commission 1 (800) 452-4699 understand. Look for hidden charges or for more information about this law.) penalties. If you sign the lease, you may be stuck paying those charges. Be sure that all utilities and appliances are working right. Make sure the If something is important to you, get it in landlord agrees to fix appliances, furnace writing. Don't count on an oral promise. and all other building systems. Rights of Tenants in Maine #639 Page 3 Bedbugs are becoming a major issue in put the money down as a security some parts of Maine. It is against the law deposit. (See section on security for a landlord to rent a living unit with deposits at page 4.) bedbugs. If you ask about when the building was last treated and declared If a landlord suggests that you buy a free of bedbugs, the landlord must tell surety bond, instead of paying a security you. (Read more at page 10.) deposit, be careful. A few basic rules about surety bonds: Your landlord must show you a written 1. You cannot be forced to buy one. "smoking policy." This tells you where It is your choice. smoking is prohibited and identifies any smoker-friendly areas. Your landlord 2. You will not get back the money can include this in the lease or give you you pay for the bond, even if you a separate notice to read and sign. You owe the landlord nothing when have the right to know this information you move out. before you pay a deposit or commit to a 3. Although a surety bond can save rental contract. you money in the short-run, it may cost you more in the long- If you share rent, remember that the run if you leave owing rent or landlord can charge you for all of the damages. The surety company rent if your roommates don't pay their can choose to sue you for the share. money it pays to the landlord under the bond. Try to talk with another tenant about the 4. Buying a bond will not save you building and the landlord. from getting a bad mark on your credit report, if you leave owing Check about off-street parking, public the landlord money. Contact Pine transportation, and stores. Try to check Tree Legal for more information. the neighborhood at night. Check to see that all the windows and Get something to keep your records doors can be locked and are not broken. in. Keep in your file: Are there window screens? your lease or rental agreement Your landlord's insurance probably does security deposit receipt not protect you from damage or loss of dated list of things wrong with the your furniture or other property. apartment Consider buying tenant's insurance if rent receipts (or cancelled checks) you want this protection. landlord's address and phone number all other papers about your tenancy Be careful about putting money down to “hold an apartment.” If you decide later Types of Rental Agreements not to rent it, the landlord may refuse to return your money. You can sue him in Leases Small Claims Court, but this will take time. Also, depending on how the judge he agreement you make interprets your agreement, you may not T with your landlord get all of your money back. For affects what rights you will example, the court may decide that you have. You may sign a Rights of Tenants in Maine #639 Page 4 written agreement called a lease. A lease Tenancies at Will lists the names of the landlord and tenant, the address of the apartment, the length of hen you rent without a lease, you the lease, and the day the rent is due. Most W become a "tenant at will." Maine law leases contain much more than this. Read gives you certain rights we will tell you these "extra conditions" carefully and about here. For example, to evict you, your understand them before you sign. This landlord must give you time after a written handbook will give an idea of what to look notice and must get a court order if you are for in a lease. still not out. Read more about this under "Evictions" at page 15. If you sign a lease, be aware that it sets out the rules you and your landlord agree to Hotels, Motels, Inns, and Rooming follow. For example, it will probably say Houses whether the landlord can evict you before the lease ends, what reasons he must have, enerally, if you are staying in a hotel or and what kind of notice he must give you. If G motel, you are not a tenant and do not the landlord is trying to evict you, a judge have the rights of a tenant. A motel owner will look at what your lease says to decide can evict you on short notice and without the case. If something in a lease is grossly going to court. unfair to you, a judge may say that it can't be used against you. But usually your rights If you live in a rooming house, are you a depend on what the lease says. tenant? This is a gray area of the law. The owner may say that you are not a tenant Note: If you have a written agreement because she has an “innkeeper's license” or that does not have a "lease term" (a runs a “lodging house.” But there is more to specific amount of time you will be it. If the owner acts like a motel owner by: renting), then you have a "rental agreement," not a lease. Our advice to . providing clean sheets and towels you is the same. Read the agreement . cleaning your room and understand it before you sign! . signing guests in and out in a registry . renting rooms by the day, rather than by A new statute, effective September 2011, the month clarifies that either the landlord or the tenant can choose to end the lease if the other party then you are probably not a tenant. But if has "materially breached" the lease. This the owner does not do these things, then he requires a written 7-day notice, served in- is probably a landlord, and you do have the hand, or, after 3 good faith efforts, mailed rights of a tenant. by first class mail, with a copy left at the other party's home.
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