Q: If a person is renting a room with no lease and is causing another tenant panic attacks, intimidating, threatening
How do we get her out before she does any more damage to us. She is disrespectful and every time she has a bad day she throws a tantrum and is unable to live with for days. She went into a bedroom of a tenant at 7 am and threatened her with jail for no reason and a restraining order if she ever spoke to her again. She was warned by e mail that if she displayed this activity again she would be evicted. Once again no lease been here about 15 months. Please help before it gets worse, this woman being targeted will end up in hospital, she has had 2 panic attacks and heart issues because of this woman. We have records....lots of proof and witnesses.
A: There simply is not enough information here to tell you much. While you may not have a written rental agreement, you do have a valid, enforceable, oral month to month rental agreement. If this is separate rooms in the same house, is one party the landlord and another a tenant? Both are tenants of the same landlord who does not live there? Does each have an independent rental agreement with the landlord or did they come as a pair, both occupying the house under the same rental agreement, albeit oral? While the answers to these and other questions could affect your rights and obligations, basically one tenant has no legal right to terminate another tenant's tenancy - only the landlord can do that. A tenant can, however, either terminate their own tenancy and move or they can, of course, complain to the landlord in hopes the landlord will do something about the offending tenant. All in all, if you really want to know your exact rights, simply review everything in detail with a landlord-tenant attorney. A single visit will likely answer all your questions and let you proceed knowing what you can legally insist on and what you cannot. Good luck.
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