But cats also keep rodents at bay, and unlike pit bulls (a pair of which mauled a child in my neighborhood last year), a cat usually does not present a major safety or liability problem. 

So the first house I ever bought, which became my first rental almost 3 years ago, is becoming a problem child.

When a child bangs it's head on her armchair, how much money are you liable for?

Child support after you?

And it's too late in the year to get pregnant in time to have a child as an exemption for 2015.  

The person reading the lease I don't think can be a child or just anyone with command of English it has to be a licensed paralegal or some such.

Otherwise, if you can afford to move into a hotel temporarily, do so, and inform the landlord you expect him to pay for it until you and your child can live in place that is not flooded with sewage (and use those words).  

tenant A gets evicted but marries tenant B, gets a recommendation to keep yorkie for emotional support, and anyways, buys the building thru a court ordered forced sale to satisfy judgements and they live happily ever after with their hoard of 'support' animals... until tenants-turned-owners' 'loveable' pit bull mix killed a tenant's child and court ruled both community property owners were liable.. but they had no equity nor assets so thrown in prison for life - without emotional support animals nor pet visitation rights - and never invoked their conjugal visitation rights - the end!

A child can navigate those. 

T lives upstairs (not the POA child) and grandpa lives downstairs.