Your landlord not having a rental license is a problem: for your landlord. I don't see why would this change what you have paid in rent. To the extent you have a deposit, that is not changed by the landlord having a license. The obligation to safeguard your deposit is a state law and independent of the licenses the cites can require. As far as the work you have done, that is another issue. We have several cases we are pursuing for people who have made contributions to the houses of other people and have hired us to recover the money they are out.
Answered on Oct 02nd, 2011 at 7:26 PM