Showing 1–14 of 14 results
§6016
Rent charged for residential estates may not be increased if the dwelling unit is in violation of the warranty of habitability. Any violation caused by the tenant, his family, guests or invitees shall not bar a rent increase. A written...
Perreault v. Parker, 490 A.2d 203 (1985)
On about August 3, 1983 the plaintiff gave the defendant oral notice that he intended to raise the rent by $5 per week. The plaintiff testified, however, that after he learned that the rent increase would be invalid in the...
Perreault v. Parker, 490 A.2d 203 (1985)
On about August 3, 1983 the plaintiff gave the defendant oral notice that he intended to raise the rent by $5 per week. The plaintiff testified, however, that after he learned that the rent increase would be invalid in the...
Belanger v. Mulholland, 30 A.3d 836 (2011)
...In 2006, the parties executed a lease that increased the monthly rent to $500. When rented and until December 2008, the trailer had running water and a functioning toilet system.
Fortin v. Wilensky, 142 Me. 372 (1947)
...It is true that the landlord cannot compel a tenant at will to pay increased rent without termination of the tenancy. The amount of rent may, however, be changed by mutual consent. Ryan v. Cogan Company, 130 Me., 88, 90...
Fortin v. Wilensky, 142 Me. 372 (1947)
The bill alleges that, in addition to the payment by the plaintiffs of an increase in rent, there was an expansion of business “in reliance upon the promises of the defendant,” but there is no evidence to support such a...
Perreault v. Parker, 490 A.2d 203 (1985)
...the plaintiff of a five dollar per week rent increase. The District Court also found that the basis for the eviction was the defendant's refusal to pay the agreed rent. For those two reasons, the court concluded that "[t...
Perreault v. Parker, 490 A.2d 203 (1985)
...the plaintiff of a five dollar per week rent increase. The District Court also found that the basis for the eviction was the defendant’s refusal to pay the agreed rent. For those two reasons, the court concluded that “[t...
Kelleher v. Fong, 108 Me. 181 (1911)
...The defendant’s continued occupation of the store at the *189expiration of the first term and for six years thereafter and the payment of the increased monthly rent, affords ample evidence of his election. It would be a contradictory interpretation...
Briggs v. Chase, 105 Me. 317 (1909)
...He paid the increased rents stipulated for from the time the three years expired. The court also said that continuing to occupy and payment of rent were the "best possible evidence of the election .... they were a declaration and an...
Fortin v. Wilensky, 142 Me. 372 (1947)
...The tenants had no right to wait for a favorable turn of events before making their election to sign, on the possible theory that if values increased they would sign and if values declined, or another rent became available, they...
Fortin v. Wilensky, 142 Me. 372 (1947)
...Meanwhile, the Singer Sewing Machine Company offered a larger amount as rent, and the defendant Wilensky says she discussed the matter with plaintiffs and then went to Attorney Donahue, who advised her that the Fortins had waited too long, and...
§ 74
...Inconvenience, unprofitability, and unexpected income reductions or cost increases will usually not suffice.”); Timothy Murray, Corbin on Contracts: Force Majeure and Impossibility of Performance Resulting from COVID-19 § 1.03[2][D] (“If the business has not been totally shut...