Q: Can the landlord interfere with my private life or my girlfriends private life for no reason?
I rent alone and she comes over often, we never act out and tried to help where we could and the landlord went digging into our lives and is disrupting the peace because he questioned her neighbor (friend of his apparently, who told him she was married) and found a 3 year old application to marry on public record. He is now being irate and taking retalitory action by threatening the agreement and scattering food about the yard where I walk, claiming that he is just "feeding the critters" which includes the roach I found on the food scraps. I am afraid that he may withold my security deposit as well and I cant find any information regarding the landlords right to retake the deposit. Please help?
A: If the behavior doesn’t stop you’ll need to hire a lawyer to put him on notice that his behavior is in violation of Florida law. If he threatens you or your girlfriend in any way call the police. Florida law does not permit him to simply withhold your deposit- he must have a valid reason to do so. Nothing in what you stated above would justify him keeping your deposit.
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