Includes index.

Play the landlord's game : how to score a great apartment -- Leases and rental agreements -- Rent rules -- Security deposits -- Discrimination -- Roommates -- Repairs and maintenance -- Tenants' rights to privacy -- How tenancies change and end -- Getting your deposit back -- Landlord retaliation -- Rent control -- Getting help with your dispute.

"This book on renter and tenant rights discusses topics such as how to break a lease and leave early, sublet an apartment, handle unwelcome landlord intrusions, resolve roommate disputes, get a landlord to make repairs, collect a full security deposit after move out, fight discrimination or retaliation, and put one's best foot forward when applying for a rental. This edition includes updates on important state-by-state landlord-tenant laws"-- Provided by publisher.