Jersey City, NJ asked in Animal / Dog Law and Landlord - Tenant for New Jersey

Q: I'm just a tenant who shares the premises with two other tenants one of my tenants has 2 dogs

We have access to the backyard I'm the superintendent who cleans it she knows we just cleaned it and she allowed her to dogs to go back there and poop and she doesn't even bother to pick it up what is our rights she's not even supposed to have dogs here the lease says no dogs which the landlord is going to court with her but meanwhile these are things we have to deal with is there anything that we can do that won't cause a bigger problem

1 Lawyer Answer

A: Contact a landlord-tenant on how to proceed, but it is the landlord, not you who should be pursing this.

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