Q: Is a tenant ever obliged to evict a tenant?
I am living in a student apartment (private company) in a college town and each of us have separate leases. That is, my roommates and I are not "tenants in common."
My situation is this:
One of my roommates is a big time druggie. Smoke pot in our apartment probably 3-4 times a day, every day. I have also discovered that he gets LSD and psychoactive mushrooms shipped to our address via USPS. I believe he uses bitcoin and orders from the "dark web." Not too versed on that stuff though. I also know that he is now selling pot out of our apartment.
Our lease is up this May but we have both signed for another year already.
I have gone to management and even offered picture and video evidence of this clear violation of state and federal law as well as the contract. Te manager couldn't have cared less. She didn't want to see them and basically gave me the ole "We can't do anything. You might call the cops and see what they can do." Seems like they dont want to lose the business
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