Title: Legal questions about landlord liability when one tenant harasses another | Joseph William Singer
Headings: Legal questions about landlord liability when one tenant harasses another
Legal questions about landlord liability when one tenant harasses another
Content: Ct. App. Div. 2018), the court held that a landlord is not liable for damages to a tenant when that tenant is the victim of harassing conduct by another tenant. Because direct monetary liability is a greater vulnerability than simply being obligated to let the tenant out of the lease, there may be a reason to treat these two types of cases differently. On the other hand, the fact that a harassing tenant is almost certainly violating express or implied terms in a lease may be viewed as justifiably placing an obligation on the landlord to exercise her right to evict. Her lease with the victim tenant may, in other words, have an implied duty to exercise the right to evict that is based on the lease with the harassing tenant. See also: Antidiscrimination Law, Consumer Protection, Leaseholds, Nuisance, Real Estate Transactions