Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in California

tenant compensation

bed room wall was damage due to a car hit the wall in car port. Tenant used the living room during repair.


Asked on 5/05/09, 6:57 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys

George Shers Law Offices of Georges H. Shers

Re: tenant compensation

It sounds as though you have finished using the livingroom as your temporary bedroom. Since you did not ask the landlord to be compensated for doing so, which would have given him the opportunity to make another unit available to you, etc., you may not be able to collect. The liveability of your entire unit did go down, but again you made no claim when it occurred. You probably are out of luck.

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Answered on 5/06/09, 12:44 am


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