Denise J. George, a licensed paralegal practitioner focusing on landlord tenant law, shares tips for renting in Utah.
From keeping a copy of your lease to handling utility problems, these tips will help renters navigate Utah’s rental market.
Finding an apartment in Salt Lake City can feel like a miracle. But then its time to sign the lease and the rapture fades as renters train their eyes on a 15 page binding document with concerning clauses about mold. She has spent years helping renters navigate Utah tenant law and recently started the podcast Two-Minute Tenant to help renters understand Utah laws. While George recommends reaching out to legal professionals for complex cases like eviction or even disagreements over a lease addendum, she shared some of her basic advice and tips.What should renters think and look for before they sign a lease?
Often the lease has language in it that says you have already been able to inspect the residence. Before you sign that lease, make sure that you’ve seen the residence, you’ve read the lease, and that anything in the lease is actually what you’re agreeing to.George: After you sign the lease make sure you keep a copy. The landlord is required to give the tenant a copy of any signed lease, but if the landlord doesn’t, there’s nothing you can do to enforce it.
Sometimes heat is turned off in the winter or other crucial utilities stop working. On the internet, you will sometimes see people advising renters to withhold rent until the repairs are made. What should tenants know before they consider withholding rent? The Utah Fit Premises Act offers you two remedies: you can deduct from the rent and make the repairs yourself, but you can only do that with up to two months rent, and there’s lots of additional provisions that go along with it that you need to be aware of.
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