It's both sad and amusing to read this thread. Someone with a gripe against a landlord launches into a tirade against him with "evil" as their chief adjective, and everyone is counseling "get legal advice". Let's face it, the time for signing documents, agreements, leases, contracts, etc. is BEFORE the conflict arises! This is to make certain that just such a circumstance is foreseen and that BOTH parties have a framework of reference during the transitional period.

A little discussion, combined with some give-and-take would probably have served well here, long before the need to resort to legalistic remedies was even contemplated. oh, what a litigious society we live in!