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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.

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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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To: ptsal

Everything depends on what the Lease, and any agreements between the roommates say. Based on the article, the roommates are evoking the “quiet enjoyment” concept as a means to pressure the Landlord to evict the Student for them. If they had a legal basis to do so otherwise, I assume they would have.

Student has NOT been firing her guns, racking the actions loudly etc., on the premises; otherwise there would have been mention of it. Quiet Enjoyment is violated by actual noise and ruckus, not inanimate objects silently packed away (that the roommates would not have known about if they had not illegally ransacked Student’s possessions), and not someone’s “feelings”. The roommates are conspiring to deprive her of her rights to legally occupied housing. Their only legal option is to move out themselves, while continuing to pay their part of the rent until the Lease term expires, or they find replacement roommates.

I hope Student does get an attorney and the snowflake fascists leave.


21 posted on 11/30/2018 12:09:40 PM PST by Chewbarkah
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In response to the email from Pirnie’s roommate, Lewis contacted Captain James Donovan
of the Somerville Police Department to inspect Pirnie’s firearms and ensure they
were in compliance with Massachusetts law. Pirnie agreed to allowing the police to
inspect her firearms and said she was told she is in compliance with all applicable
laws. Lewis acknowledged the department’s conclusion that Pirnie was not breaking
any gun laws in his email telling Pirnie to move out.


22 posted on 11/30/2018 12:11:35 PM PST by deport
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To: alternatives?

The girls who went through her stuff should be arrested for burglary. It was a private space that she rented for her use alone. I understand why black Americans get angry sometimes. Can you imagine if a black guy went into his neighbor’s apartment and rummage through all his things looking for what might interest him? He would be in prison so fast it would make your head spin, but these are white ivy league snowflake kids. Kids I say, they’re all in their early twenties.


23 posted on 11/30/2018 12:31:48 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Jeff Chandler

The landlord could make entry, upon notice to conduct normal business, but no a landlord does not have a right to search through your drawers


24 posted on 11/30/2018 12:32:59 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Jeff Chandler

“I’m pretty sure the landlord would be within his rights to search his property...”

Usually a landlord is obligated to give some kind of legal notice if they want to inspect the premises, and that is for an inspection, not a search. Once he leases it out, the tenants do have some legal expectation of privacy.

Co-lessees, on the other hand, all have an equal legal entitlement to the premises, so there is nothing outright illegal about them rummaging through each others’ stuff. It’s rude and you might be able to come up with some grounds for a civil suit over it, but it’s not illegal unless they stole something.


25 posted on 11/30/2018 12:35:21 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: DesertRhino

“It was a private space that she rented for her use alone.”

That’s not how it works when you rent with roommates. There is only one premises, and everyone on the lease has an equal legal right to access the entire premises.


26 posted on 11/30/2018 12:39:06 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: DesertRhino

Do you have to take something for it to be burglary? I don’t know. Definitely trespassing.

I don’t think a black women gets arrested in this case. I think a black guy probably gets arrested.

If a bunch of white women search a black women’s room I think all heck breaks lose.


27 posted on 11/30/2018 12:46:41 PM PST by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: ptsal

It’s a conspiracy to deprive Leyla of her civil right to be armed for self protection. Not to mention the right to be safe in her property.

Federal civil rights case or cases is in order. Ask for a million for each legal citizen.


28 posted on 11/30/2018 12:48:52 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: ptsal
The owner is well within his rights to prohibit the possession of anything upon his property. Do you really want property owners to be stripped of their rights?

She can live with me, guns and all. ;-D

29 posted on 11/30/2018 12:49:22 PM PST by GingisK
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To: DesertRhino

+1!!!!!


30 posted on 11/30/2018 12:50:29 PM PST by 4Liberty ("The Democrats are the Party of Crime." - Donald J. Trump)
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To: GingisK

“Do you really want property owners to be stripped of their rights?”

Do you really want tenants to be stripped of their rights?


31 posted on 11/30/2018 1:10:26 PM PST by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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To: alternatives?

“Do you have to take something for it to be burglary? I don’t know. Definitely trespassing.”

If they unlawfully enter and take a nap on the sofa, it’ll be trespass. If they are in there to commit any other crime, however slight, it is burglary (with state to state variations)


32 posted on 11/30/2018 1:46:09 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: KrisKrinkle
The owner must prevail, because the owner's rights occurred first at that location. Naturally, the lease sure as crap must establish rules regarding such thing up front.
33 posted on 11/30/2018 2:05:50 PM PST by GingisK
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To: GingisK

“The owner must prevail,”

Maybe.

“because the owner’s rights occurred first at that location.”

What are the owner’s rights? The right to keep and bear arms is stated in the Bill of Rights. Where are the owners rights stated? The rights to life and liberty are stated in the Declaration of Independence. Do the owner’s rights, whatever they are, prevail over those too? Can the owner prevail and take a tenant’s life because the owners rights occurred first at that location? Can the owner prevail and curtail a tenant’s liberty right to leave because the owners rights occurred first at that location?

As far as I can tell, the whole “property rights” in relation to other rights is not defined very well.

“Naturally, the lease sure as crap must establish rules regarding such thing up front.”

I heartily agree with that.


34 posted on 11/30/2018 2:37:39 PM PST by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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To: KrisKrinkle
The Bill of Rights is directed ONLY at the Federal government. It prohibits the Federal government from making any law that abridges firearm possession. It does not regulate individuals or corporations.

One individual's rights do not supersede another's rights. Someone living on your property cannot dictate how you manage your own property. You are allowed to deny access to your property for any reason.

35 posted on 11/30/2018 2:43:43 PM PST by GingisK
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To: ptsal

Exercise of your first amendment rights is making me uncomfortable. You’re evicted.


36 posted on 11/30/2018 3:38:56 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (XY)
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To: Jeff Chandler

No, even the landlord has no right to enter rented premises without the permission AND knowledge of the tenant.

Tenant, not child.

The roommates should be charged with breaking and entering and trespass.


37 posted on 11/30/2018 10:11:02 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: GingisK

Property owners protect their rights through their leases.


38 posted on 11/30/2018 10:19:14 PM PST by MortMan (Satan was merely the FIRST politician who pretended to speak for God.)
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To: ptsal

Yep - from the article, I’d wager the lease doesn’t support any of the actual lawbreakers here. Sue the landlord and get the others kicked out.


39 posted on 12/01/2018 2:21:40 AM PST by trebb (Those who don't donate anything tend to be empty gasbags...no-value-added types)
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To: GingisK

“The Bill of Rights is directed ONLY at the Federal government.”

The Bill of Rights is a statement of Rights. People establish governments to secure Rights.

“One individual’s rights do not supersede another’s rights.”

Then an individual’s real property rights do not supersede another’s right to keep and bear arms; then a landlord’s property rights do not supersede a tenant’s right to keep and bear arms. Or vice versa. “One individual’s rights do not supersede another’s rights” doesn’t make sense as a standalone statement.

“Someone living on your property cannot dictate how you manage your own property.”

That might depend on the terms of the agreement regarding someone living on another’s property.

“You are allowed to deny access to your property for any reason. “

Not for just “any reason”. In the face of a legal search warrant, “any reason” won’t allow you to deny access. If someone kidnaps my child, confining the child to their property, the reason that they don’t want my child freed doesn’t allow them to deny access to their property.

They may deny access, but that’s not the same as being allowed to deny access.


40 posted on 12/01/2018 8:08:46 AM PST by KrisKrinkle (Blessed be those who know the depth and breadth of ignorance. Cursed be those who don't.)
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