THE PRICE OF COMPLIANCE: CONSUMER PROTECTION LAW AS A MEANS TO RECOVER RENT COLLECTED BY UNLICENSED PHILADELPHIA LANDLORDS

Volume 94, No. 3, Spring 2022

By Esteban Rodriguez [PDF]

Renting an apartment can, in some ways, be like buying a gallon of milk. Imagine you are in a supermarket dairy aisle. Being a prudent consumer, you might check the expiration date on the container. Even the savviest shopper, however, would not think to chemically analyze the product to ensure that what they are purchasing is indeed milk. Instead, consumers place their faith in a regulatory scheme, trusting that a system of laws, rules, and consequences are regulating the conduct of producers and merchants. Such rules recognize the obstacles that modern consumers face, including disparities in knowledge between transacting parties, the increasing complexity of products, and the need for a meaningful remedy where it is merited.

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Randy Kominsky is a member of Temple Law’s Class of 1979. Mr. Kominsky was a staff editor for Volume 51 and an associate research editor for Volume 52 of Temple Law Review. His case note, Housing Discrimination – The Appropriate Evidentiary Standard for Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, was published in 1978.[1] After graduating, he moved […]