Sebastian, FL · Indian River County

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Imagine this

  1. You and your landlord agree, face to face, that you can bring in a roommate and extend your lease. A few days later, they sign a lease with a new tenant instead. Now you're expected to move everything you own out on short notice. You're stuck in a small town where you don't know anyone. So you reach out to the one legal professional you've ever worked with, and find out they're representing your landlord. Against you. And now you're on the road, without the time, or even a printer, to properly file a Bar complaint.

  2. You convince your partner at the time to move across the country with you. Then, in the middle of the holiday rush, your landlord sees an opening: a big rent increase, and pressure to sign a new lease early, before you've had a chance to breathe.

  3. Or a rental runs every applicant through some screening score you've never heard of. Picture-perfect applicants keep getting denied, and nobody can tell them why.

Believe it or not, these things happen.

To get a lease, you need

  • A clean record
  • Stable, provable income
  • Good credit
  • References from past landlords

To hand you one, they need

A key.

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  • 3 days

    Notice to pay rent

    Weekends and legal holidays don't count. It's a demand, not an eviction. The landlord still has to go to court.

  • 7 days

    Notice of lease violation

    Some violations can be fixed within the 7 days. Read which kind yours is.

  • 5 days

    Court summons

    File a written answer with the clerk. For unpaid-rent cases you usually must deposit the rent claimed into the court registry, or you can lose by default.

  • Illegal

    Lockouts and shutoffs

    Changing locks, cutting utilities or removing your things without a court order is barred in Florida (§83.67). Photograph everything.

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