Minnesota: Housing

If you are a tenant who has a deadline to move, because of the court or your housing authority, you can use this form to keep track of the apartments you contact, visit, or apply to rent. This form can help you show the court or housing authority that you are actively looking for housing.

For example, you may want to use this if:

• You have a deadline to use your Section 8 voucher and want to apply for an extension, or
• A judge ordered you to move, or you agreed to move, and you need more time.

You can come back to this interview more than once to build a record of all of the places you visit and apply to.

This interview helps a tenant in Massachusetts write a letter to a landlord to request a reasonable accommodation related to a disability.

This interview helps someone in Minnesota draft an Emergency Repair Request Letter.

This interview helps someone in Minnesota request a copy of their lease. You may need a copy of your lease to prove where you live, before you go to court, or for a number of other reasons. You have a right to request a copy of your lease from your landlord.

This interview helps someone living in St. Paul, Minnesota limit their rent increase under St. Paul's rent control rules if the amount of the increase is more than 3%. The interview will generate a letter to the landlord to fight the increase, and instructions for next steps.

It will help you figure out what charges are allowed. It will also help you gather information about your landlord and any other tenants in your building who are also getting a rent increase.

The original letter was created by HOME Line, a tenant advocacy organization in Minnesota. You can get free legal advice from HOME Line by calling their hotline at 612-728-5767.