Stiffing Your Landlord On Rent?

Thinking about stiffing your landlord for the rent?

According to the "Lehigh Valley Landlord Legal Blog", "Pennsylvania law permits a landlord to garnish their tenant’s wages up to 10% of the tenant’s net wages per pay period or a sum not to place the debtor’s net income below the poverty income guidelines

What about eviction?
According to this same blog, "The landlord must give 10 days’ notice before filing a landlord-tenant complaint. If the eviction is for a material breach of a lease term other than a failure to pay rent, a 15 day notice is required.

The landlord-tenant system in Pennsylvania already has built into it, by virtue of the procedural process, a delay of, at a minimum, roughly 29 days from the time a landlord-tenant complaint is filed to the time when possession can be regained by the landlord, assuming the tenant does not voluntarily relinquish possession."

Here's a helpful quickie site for FAQ's

More specific information can be found at the The Pennsylvania Attorney General site. It has links to "your rights as a tenant" along with the complete "Pennsylvania's Landlord Tenant Act" which contains 26 pages of everything tenants and landlords need to know.