Landlords gouging tenants with illegal fees isn’t a new problem – but it’s a growing one.  Major national landlords will routinely impose illegal penalties for early lease termination or a failure to give 60 days notice of non-renewal.  Yet when tenants have fought back, in court, the landlords have consistently lost.  And Babbitt, Johnson, Osborne & Le Clainche has been making it happen, with repeated victories against major landlords.

We have a powerful ally in our work, too.  We’re trial counsel with the law offices of Rod Tennyson, who as Assistant Attorney General for Florida, wrote the laws that protect the state’s 4.5 million tenants – laws the apartment industry is trying to dismantle.  Working together, our firms have recovered nearly $11.5 million for renters, and removed nearly $80 million in contested charges from credit reports.  We have successfully resolved class action suits with many large landlords, including:

With victories like these, we’re sending landlords a message that their unreasonable behavior has to end.  You can help stop it, too.  If you have information on similar practices from other landlords, please contact us.  We want to talk to you – and fight with you.