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To: esryle
I own rental property. In Ultra-Liberal Montgomery County, MD (a D.C suburb) a tenant has to have 4 convictions in court before I can evict him for failure to pay rent.

I have no license to enforce the law so I can't go in and break up the party. And, I am not allowed to evict a tenant for having a party. Basically, with a law like this I'm screwed (literally and figuratively). I would sell my rental properties.

It's bad enough with the Landlord-Tanant Affairs Nazis always coming down on landlords for things such as grease smoking when it's on a stove burner. It happened to me... the idiot tenant spilled grease on the stove burner (electric stove) and the Montgomery County Landlord-Tenant Affairs Nazis told me that I had a defective stove!!!

16 posted on 10/19/2004 9:40:01 AM PDT by 69ConvertibleFirebird (Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience...)
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To: 69ConvertibleFirebird
I am not allowed to evict a tenant for having a party.

Is it possible in MD to have your rental/lease agreements prohibit "disturbances" or other criminal activity? I think you could lawfully evict or refuse to renew the lease under a lease violation. Or does it go beyond that?

21 posted on 10/19/2004 9:49:47 AM PDT by Horatio Gates
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