Q: Lease is up in July. Have mentally I’ll neighbor harassing me. She has called the police twice.
Lease is up in July. Have mentally I’ll neighbor harassing me. She has called the police twice for imagined incidents. The last incident a few days ago, she called the cops claiming I threw keys at her daughter. I wasn’t even home. I was at work. Boyfriend did not let cops in. Woman became irate, claimed we were FBI agents. Ended with her being taken to hospital. When I got home her sister warned me her sister “had army behind her”. Also 6 cop cars were dispatched. I feel harassed and unsafe. Spoke to management, they don’t want to terminate lease.
A: Unfortunately, both you and your landlord are in a tough place. The landlord cannot simply evict your neighbor because she may suffer from mental health issues as this would be a prohibited type of discrimination. However, if your neighbor's conduct endangers other tenants, the landlord may have an obligation to move forward with efforts to try to evict your neighbor through a holdover proceeding. However, with the backup of cases resulting from Covid, the matter will take many months to work through the courts even if your landlord acted immediately.
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