Renting a place to live presents many important questions and raises some problems for tenants.
Tenants often suffer from insufficient or incorrect information.
A lack of information, or the wrong information, may cause disputes with landlords that turn into eviction actions. Then, the tenant's shelter is threatened. When tenants do not have information about their rights, it hurts their ability to provide their families with a safe and secure place to live. This guide is based on the New Mexico law that covers landlord-tenant relations for residential housing. The Uniform Owner-Resident Relations Act covers most kinds of residential rental housing.