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Housing Laws

Laws current as of August 6, 2024

What happens if the landlord makes me sign a lease that takes away these protections?

If the landlord includes a term in your lease that is not allowed, that section of the lease would be unenforceable. In other words, a judge would not make you follow that section of the lease. If your landlord tries to enforce that section of your lease, you (the tenant) can sue the landlord for the following types of money damages:

  • actual damages that you suffered, such as money that you spent due to the landlord trying to enforce that section of the lease against you;
  • your reasonable attorney’s fees;
  • all other costs that you had related to the court case against your landlord; and
  • punitive damages, which are intended to punish the landlord, that could equal up to two months of rent.1

1 K.R.S. § 383.302(2)

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