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I currently reside in an apartment complex. My next door neighbor is a habitual breach of contract tenant. They smoke pot inside their apartment leading into my bathroom which leads into my entire apartment, they have parties all hours of the night waking me up (I start work at 4:45am). I have made numerous complaints to management but they take no action. Due to their negligence and knowing of the said neighbor’s behaviors/actions on 7/16/24 a fire broke out in the said neighbors apartment, waking my building up at 3am from a fire alarm. Displacing two families and leaving me in a high rate of stress. I reside with my pregnant daughter and grandson. I am worried they are going to allow this said neighbor back to living here which I don’t feel comfortable and would like to speak to a lawyer of my rights.
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You will likely need to spend some money out of pocket to hire a lawyer to intervene and address this with the landlord. As a general rule, it is very difficult to sue a landlord to force them to evict another tenant for a variety of reasons. The typical remedy would be to sue the offending neighbor but that is often an expensive and complicated case simply because most residential tenants are "judgment proof" for money damages and judges require a very high level of proof in regard to issuing injunctions against co-tenants. You better bet is to hire a lawyer to try to use the unruly tenant as a basis to terminate your tenancy and allow you to move elsewhere. Use the find a lawyer feature to retain a lawyer for this purpose ASAP.
Answered on Jul 17th, 2024 at 5:10 AM
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