1. Is this legal? Why or why not?

Lorette loves to party. Night after night she cranks up the stereo, and she and her friends carry on noisily until 2:00 or 3:00 a.m. Other tenants all over the apartment building complain regularly, and Lorette refuses to change her ways. Finally, her exasperated landlord hands her a written notice telling her to be out of the building in 24 hours or he'll get a court order to throw her out.

2. What are Juan and Eva's rights in this situation?

Juan and Eva are moving out of their apartment. After completing an inspection report with their landlord, they're informed that half their security deposit is being kept to pay for steam-cleaning the rugs and painting the walls. After four years in the apartment, their landlord says, things get dirty and someone has to pay for the clean-up.

3. Is Ms. Hum acting within her rights? Explain.

Ms. Hum rents out the basement suite in her house on a month-to-month basis. When she goes to collect the rent one day, she discovers that her tenants have vacated without telling her they were leaving. Though she puts an ad for the apartment in the paper, it takes her a month to line up new tenants. When her old tenants contact her demanding their security deposit back, Ms. Hum says she intends to keep it to pay for their last month's rent.