the landlord is screwed either way and maybe by both sides... WINNING!
Posted on 12/01/2018 11:40:46 AM PST by Liberty7732
Harvard graduate student Leyla Pirnie was asked to move out of her apartment after her roommates discovered she possessed legally owned firearms.
The Washington Free Beacon reports that Pirnie’s roommates allegedly rummaged through her belongings while she was away from the apartment, discovered her guns, and emailed the landlord to complain. One of the roommates told the landlord: “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 landlord, Avid Management’s Dave Lewis, then emailed the apartment residents, including Pirnie, to say he had checked with local police, who verified the guns were “being safely and legally stored under lock and key.” Despite Pirnie’s compliance with the law, Lewis then cited the roommates’ discomfort with firearms as grounds for Pirnie to move out of the apartment.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Having snowflakes for roommates causes me heartburn.THEY need to move out.
Just tell the roomies, “You want me out, fine. Buy me out.” Living with dirtball liberals rifling through your stuff isn’t a living situation I’d want anyway. They can go suck an egg.
the landlord is screwed either way and maybe by both sides... WINNING!
Your roommates were generically “afraid” and dug through all of your possessions ...
If that stands, anyone can go into another’s room and ransack it citing vague paranoia.
She should sue them for a fortune and win. And the landlord.
She should sue for personal invasion of property.
He wrote: “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.”
Had he told her under no certain circumstances could she remain in the apartment, she might have had a case to sue them all. Not a lawyer so I really don't know. But I would think some kind of charge could be brought against the roommates for rummaging through her belongings, but not sure about that either.
I wonder what Harvard’s stance will be on this.
https://heavy.com/news/2018/12/leyla-pirnie/
Another click bait FALSE headline. Eviction is a legal process. Saying someone should leave is not eviction. Leaving because someone ask you is not eviction. I wonder how someone who owns a firearm is so weak as to subject themself to this type of bullying.
She’s definitely not guilty.
Good link. Excerpt: “Her landlord has said that if the other roommates move out, Pirnie would have to fill the apartment or foot the entire rent bill of more than $6,000 per month. She told the Free Beacon, “I’m still very much so being threatened out of my apartment. Either I leave and incur moving expenses or my roommates move and I incur their rent expenses… Doesn’t seem right. Not only is this a blatant violation of my privacy, but it’s also a violation of my rights.” “
No eviction. Despite what she says, her rights, via the US Constitution, are not being violated. She has no right to roommates who are rude and snoopy and she has no rights to room mates who wish to live with her.
People need to quit equating desires and wishes with rights.
“...roommates who are not rude...”
There are 2 issues involved: 1. the tenants have obligations under the lease and 2. there has been a civil tort committed against the gun owner. These 2 issues are pretty much unrelated.
Without reading the lease, it’s pure speculation but in all likelihood all tenants signed the lease. That means each tenant is personally responsible for the payment of the total rent each month. The landlord doesn’t care who pays it as long as someone does. If no one pays, the landlord can try to collect against all of them or against any one or more of them. It’s his call.
The tenants probably have only an oral agreement among themselves as to how they will share the rent. This oral agreement among tenants is of no real interest to the landlord. He wants the rent each month and doesn’t care who pays it.
So if the snowflakes move out and gun owner remains, the landlord will be looking to her for payment of ALL the rent. If she doesn’t pay, he can sue her for payment and institute an eviction action. In that action, the gun owner would then bring in as third party defendants the snowflakes who bolted leaving her holding the bag for the monthly rent.
Months of litigation ensues and legal fees rise through the roof.
But also, as part of this lawsuit, gun owner can include in her complaint against the snowflakes, their invasion of her privacy. How this claim would shake out is anybody’s guess.
My advice to gun owner would be: you’ve done nothing wrong. They have. You stay your ground and if they move out causing you damage under the lease, we’ll sue their asses off and let the chips fall where they may. The only problem with this approach though, the same problem with so much of our “justice” system, is gun owner is gonna need about $50,000 cash to make her play.
The landlord is stuck with her till the end of her lease and beyond. He has no legal right to evict her or deny her residence simply because of her legal ownership of firearms...........There are Landlord/Lease laws that protect her......
And the attorney’s always win, too. Also, there is a high potential in this situation for collusion among the other room mates. They could say she threatened them with a firearm and then back up each other. This is a rotten mess and the gun owner should have already lawyered up.
True. As long as she pays the monthly rent. All of it. Not just “her share”.
attorney’s = attorneys drat
Not if they're cosignees of the lease.
The roommates have already made several mistakes and ultimately, if gun owner is able to finance this gig, they are going to be on the hook for a percentage of the money gun owner loses (but probably not her legal fees). Then you get into things like whether or not there is any hope of collecting a judgment against kids who have nothing.
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