Tenant rights
Alabama is one of the few states that has resisted requiring that landlords be held responsible for the condition of rental housing. Even with the changes in Alabama’s landlord/tenant laws that became effective 1/1/07, Alabama still lags behind other states on the issue of renters’ rights. Many would argue that tenants have the right to expect clean, safe, habitable housing. Others take the position that the market should drive the suitability of housing, meaning that tenants will move from unsafe, substandard housing to better housing as better housing becomes available. Odds are that you have been a tenant and that you will be a landlord at some point in time. Should the State impose duties on landlords of rental residential property (property intended for human occupancy)? If so, what should those duties be? What rights should tenants have, if any?about 100 words
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Tenant rights
A tenancy is a legal relationship between the owner of property and another party, in which the owner transfers to the other party the right to possess and occupy the property for a defined period of time. During the tenancy, both the landlord and the tenant assume obligations towards each other. The law imposes a number of duties on the landlord and gives the tenant a number of corresponding rights. These include: possession, the landlord must give the tenant the right of possession of the property; habitable condition; and noninterference with use. As a tenant moving into a private rented property, you have a number of rights and responsibilities, just like your landlord: The right to live in a property that`s safe and in a good state of repair; the right to have your deposit returned at the end of the tenancy (provided that you meet the terms of your tenancy agreement); and the right to live in the property undisturbed.
