starbar808
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My family and I moved in here a year ago and signed a 4 year lease. Our landlord lives in the other side of the duplex here. He keeps his dogs in a kenel right outside our bedroom windows, on the opposite side of his house, in a place where he can see our front door. His back door is next to mine, so naturally he can see all sides of our side of the house just by going to feed his dogs. The dogs stink like crazy because he doesn't bathe them and we have to put up with the stench in our bedrooms.
The thing is that he is constantly watching us and telling us what we should be doing. He has come into my fenced patio area telling me that the garbage truck has just arrived so he wants my son to take our 1 bag of garbage up the driveway right now before the truck leaves. When I went out to take it he told me, "no, you go back in the house, I want your son to do it." My husband came home from work one day and was walking into our front door when the landlord called out to my husband from his garage and said (in a rude tone), "I asked you yesterday about your grandfathers van and how much he was selling it for and you still haven't given me and answer. When I ask someone a question I expect an answer."
I had a student of mine sleeping over and he and my sons were playing out in the patio area. When the landlord came to feed his dogs my student flashed a laser beam from a toy gun on my landlords legs. He turned and scolded my student and told him he didn't think that was funny then proceeded to come to my front door banging on it fast and hard. When I came he said, "I want to talk to that boy you have here." When I asked him what for he said, "no I don't want to talk to you, I want to talk to that boy" then he asked me to go away. I told him I wouldn't let him talk to my 10 year old student without me there to hear and he said fine. He then proceeded to yell at my student and tell him that he's lucky that he didn't throw the dogs water bowl at him because my student scared him so bad with the laser beam. The land lord told my student he wouldnt be allowed to come over anymore if he does anything like that again. The kid cried the whole time he was being scolded. He's constantly scolding my kids, pounding on our door and scolding us like children for small things like not cleaning the lint trap in the dryer after one use.
My brother came over one day to visit and my 12 year old son was at home alone. My brother walked in a saw the landlord in my kitchen with a refrigerator repair man fixing my fridge and the landlord asked him, "who are you and what are you doing here?" and told him we weren't home so he had to leave. I didn't give the landlord permission to enter our unit.
We had not recieved our mail for a couple of weeks and when the mailman came I asked him about it and he said that he thought we moved because someone was writing on our mail saying that we didn't live at that address anymore. He then told us that he's surprised that we've lasted this long because tenants never stay long and that we need to watch out for our landlord because he has a bad reputation in that area. His mother told me that she thinks we are great tenants, very considerate and kind and that her son should be happy to have us. His mother also told me to please be watchful because her son does strange things when no ones around and also told me he's been in jail before for 7 years for insurance fraud. I want out of this lease but his girlfriend (who also feels threatened by him because she says he's threatened to kill her if she talks to me) says to just stick it out because he will sue if we break the lease. What can I do?
The thing is that he is constantly watching us and telling us what we should be doing. He has come into my fenced patio area telling me that the garbage truck has just arrived so he wants my son to take our 1 bag of garbage up the driveway right now before the truck leaves. When I went out to take it he told me, "no, you go back in the house, I want your son to do it." My husband came home from work one day and was walking into our front door when the landlord called out to my husband from his garage and said (in a rude tone), "I asked you yesterday about your grandfathers van and how much he was selling it for and you still haven't given me and answer. When I ask someone a question I expect an answer."
I had a student of mine sleeping over and he and my sons were playing out in the patio area. When the landlord came to feed his dogs my student flashed a laser beam from a toy gun on my landlords legs. He turned and scolded my student and told him he didn't think that was funny then proceeded to come to my front door banging on it fast and hard. When I came he said, "I want to talk to that boy you have here." When I asked him what for he said, "no I don't want to talk to you, I want to talk to that boy" then he asked me to go away. I told him I wouldn't let him talk to my 10 year old student without me there to hear and he said fine. He then proceeded to yell at my student and tell him that he's lucky that he didn't throw the dogs water bowl at him because my student scared him so bad with the laser beam. The land lord told my student he wouldnt be allowed to come over anymore if he does anything like that again. The kid cried the whole time he was being scolded. He's constantly scolding my kids, pounding on our door and scolding us like children for small things like not cleaning the lint trap in the dryer after one use.
My brother came over one day to visit and my 12 year old son was at home alone. My brother walked in a saw the landlord in my kitchen with a refrigerator repair man fixing my fridge and the landlord asked him, "who are you and what are you doing here?" and told him we weren't home so he had to leave. I didn't give the landlord permission to enter our unit.
We had not recieved our mail for a couple of weeks and when the mailman came I asked him about it and he said that he thought we moved because someone was writing on our mail saying that we didn't live at that address anymore. He then told us that he's surprised that we've lasted this long because tenants never stay long and that we need to watch out for our landlord because he has a bad reputation in that area. His mother told me that she thinks we are great tenants, very considerate and kind and that her son should be happy to have us. His mother also told me to please be watchful because her son does strange things when no ones around and also told me he's been in jail before for 7 years for insurance fraud. I want out of this lease but his girlfriend (who also feels threatened by him because she says he's threatened to kill her if she talks to me) says to just stick it out because he will sue if we break the lease. What can I do?
