Defenses to Collection of Rental Debt from the National Consumer Law Center

A new National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) Digital Library article provides tenant tactics to deal with rental debt: responding to negative tenant screening reports that prevent access to new housing; challenging the rental amount claimed as due; defenses to rental debt collection lawsuits and eight ways for the tenant to recover attorney fees in that litigation; tenant rights after a court judgment for the landlord; and tenants’ affirmative litigation for the collector’s litigation abuse. Visit: https://library.nclc.org/defenses-collection-rental-debt