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Landlord Tells Harvard Student to Move Out Over Legally Owned Guns
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON - the free bacon ^ | 11-30=2018 | Stephen Gutowski

Posted on 11/30/2018 11:03:03 AM PST by ptsal

A Massachusetts landlord told a Harvard University graduate student that he wanted her to move out of her apartment because her legally owned firearms made some of her roommates uncomfortable.

"Since it's clear that Leyla wants to keep her firearms, it would be best for all parties if she finds another place to live," Dave Lewis, president of Avid Management, said in an email to the household obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

The request that the student, Leyla Pirnie, move out came after her roommates searched her room while she was not home and found her firearms. That prompted one of the roommates to email Lewis requesting he verify that Pirnie was in compliance with applicable firearms laws.

"We discussed with Leyla that all of us are uncomfortable with having firearms in the house, and that their presence causes anxiety and deprives us of the quiet enjoyment of the premise to which we are entitled," the roommate wrote to Lewis.

Pirnie said she feels her roommates violated her privacy and now they and her landlord are trying to violate her rights.

(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: apartment; banglist; education; guns; landlord; massachusetts; privacy; rent; rental; rkba; roommates; tenant
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Lawyer-up ,honey, and sue the socks off of the roommates and landlord.
1 posted on 11/30/2018 11:03:03 AM PST by ptsal
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"We discussed with Leyla that all of us are uncomfortable with having firearms in the house, and that their presence causes anxiety and deprives us of the quiet enjoyment of the premise to which we are entitled," the roommate wrote to Lewis.

Snowflakes all.......................Just wait. One day they will all WISH FOR ONE FIREARM IN THE HOUSE..................and then they will remember Leyla...................

2 posted on 11/30/2018 11:05:51 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: ptsal

What next? We don’t want you living here because you drive a Ford?


3 posted on 11/30/2018 11:06:55 AM PST by Bitman
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To: ptsal

Can a landlord prohibit perfectly legal activities on their property?

Yes.

But it needs to be stated in the Lease.


4 posted on 11/30/2018 11:09:12 AM PST by Blue House Sue
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To: ptsal

Where’s the aclu now? Oh, I forgot. They deny the 2nd amendment. DOH!


5 posted on 11/30/2018 11:09:24 AM PST by rktman ( #My2nd! Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH)
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To: ptsal

Looks like her roommates are going to have to tack a settlement onto their student loans.


6 posted on 11/30/2018 11:11:12 AM PST by glorgau
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They searched her room while she was gone? Wow!


7 posted on 11/30/2018 11:11:58 AM PST by mdmathis6
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To: ptsal

own the bldg


8 posted on 11/30/2018 11:12:07 AM PST by Bell Bouy II
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Most Landlords make it clear from the beginning on whether firearms are allowed by the tenants. Some Landlords don’t want firearms stored within properties they own or manage.
I support the second amendment, but I think storing firearms on the premises is something a landlord can disallow by policy. Either one agrees to these conditions or they don’t.
Same as with having a pet. I would expect that to have been discussed already.

Now as far as having her roommates search through her private luggage because she’s from Alabama and they saw a MAGA hat. That is flat out wrong. I would demand a different dorm. These girls are too immature, ignorant and intolerant.
They’re not going to change anytime soon.


9 posted on 11/30/2018 11:15:26 AM PST by lee martell (AT)
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I suppose they have their safe space now.


10 posted on 11/30/2018 11:16:10 AM PST by A Voice (MSM = Enemy of the People)
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I’m sort of uncomfortable with disrespectful idiots rummaging through my stuff.


11 posted on 11/30/2018 11:17:55 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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“The request that the student, Leyla Pirnie, move out came after her roommates searched her room while she was not home and found her firearms. “

Also known as “burglary”.


12 posted on 11/30/2018 11:21:18 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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“One day they will all WISH FOR ONE FIREARM IN THE HOUSE.”

I agree they are snowflakes, but disagree with eventually wanting a firearm. They are brains washed to the max that the government is here to help and is the answer to everything. Firearms are something bad and to be feared. If they actually felt the need for a firearm, and given one, they’d be more apt to shoot each other.

They have been purposely emasculated and dumbed down as not to represent a threat to anyone.


13 posted on 11/30/2018 11:21:39 AM PST by redfreedom (.)
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File charges against the criminal asses who rummaged through her belongings...

It is reminiscent of life, for 70-years, in the Soviet Union...

14 posted on 11/30/2018 11:39:53 AM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: lee martell

I think it is a room in a house not a dorm.

The roommates are certainly not respective of other cultures. Their needs to be a protest with them being labeled intolerant.

I wonder what the local press reaction would be if the lady were African American, Muslim, or an illegal alien?

The press needs to publish the address for the benefit of the local criminal element.

I hope the young lady sues.


15 posted on 11/30/2018 11:45:55 AM PST by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: DesertRhino

There is a mental problem involved here.

Source of the problem? Massachusetts.


16 posted on 11/30/2018 11:46:26 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: LucyT; bitt; ransomnote; Liz

FYI- How to have your roommates pay for your college education.


17 posted on 11/30/2018 11:54:36 AM PST by ptsal
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her roommates searched her room while she was not home

I'm pretty sure the landlord would be within his rights to search his property, but not her roommates.

If she plays her cards right she might stand to make a bundle from lawsuits.

18 posted on 11/30/2018 11:57:39 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Every time a lefty cries "racism", a Trump voter gets his wings.)
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Free rent for life!! Lawsuit time.


19 posted on 11/30/2018 12:03:54 PM PST by Boomer (The other name for "Democrat" is "Nation Killer")
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I am sorry, but in a situation like this there are two choices. (1) Make everyone else leave. (2) Leave, but file lawsuits against the roommates and landlord and in the settlement that follows, make them post a very large “This is a gun free area” outside the dwelling so that all criminals will know they will be safe.


20 posted on 11/30/2018 12:07:03 PM PST by Robert357 ( Dan Rather was discharged as "medically unfit" on May 11, 1954.)
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