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Tenants' Rights in New Jersey Chapter Index

 
Following is the Web version of Tenants' Rights in New Jersey, Legal Services of New Jersey’s guide to landlord-tenant law for New Jersey residents. The manual includes chapters on finding a place to live, security deposits, leases, rent increases, the responsibilities of landlords and tenants, legal and illegal evictions, condo and co-op conversions, and the right to safe and decent housing. The printed edition is not available now, but visit the LSNJ.org publications page or e-mail publications@lsnj.org, for updated ordering information. The printed manual is free of charge to Legal Services clients and people with low incomes. If you call LSNJ-LAW™, Legal Services of New Jersey's statewide, toll-free legal hotline, at 1-888-576-5529, between 8 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., a hotline intake staff member will determine if you are Legal Services-eligible. If you are eligible, the hotline will mail you a copy when it is available.
Topics

    
  • A: Introduction

  • B: Chapter 1: Know Your Rights

  • C: Chapter 2: Finding a Place to Rent and Moving In

  • D: Chapter 3: Security Deposits

  • E: Chapter 4: Leases

  • F: Chapter 5: Ending or Breaking Your Lease

  • G: Chapter 6: Your Right to Safe and Decent Housing

  • H: Chapter 7: Rent Increases

  • I: Chapter 8: The Nuts and Bolts of Fighting Evictions

  • J: Chapter 9: The Causes for Eviction

  • K: Chapter 10: Defenses to Eviction

  • L: Chapter 11: Removals, Stays, and Vacating Judgments

  • M: Chapter 12: Court Rules to Help Tenants

  • N: Chapter 13: Special Programs for Tenants

  • O: Chapter 14: Condominium and Cooperative Conversions

  • P: Chapter 15: Rooming and Boarding Homes and Mobile Home Parks

  • Q: Chapter 16: Housing Discrimination

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