Question: We own a rental home and rent out several rooms. One of the tenants just moved in last month and signed a six-month lease. These are standard, boilerplate lease forms that we got from Professional Publishing in Novato, Calif. At the time this tenant signed the lease we asked him for first month, last month and a security deposit. He told us he couldn't pay the entire security deposit or any of last month's rent upon move-in but he was getting paid commission soon and would pay the rest of the security deposit and the last month's rent in two weeks.  more...