Verbally Assaulted by Tenant

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badday

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Asked a tenant to lower her music at 9 am this morning. She said, "who pays the electric bill"? and closed the door on me.

Her music was very loud, i called the police, they didn't come.

Around 1 pm, she comes back from an errand with her car radio very loud and pulls into her parking spot. I asked her to lower her car radio, at this point her husband comes out and asks what the problem is. Anticipating promlems I turn on my camera to vdo mode to record the conversation.

I tell him the car radio is too loud. He tells me he pays rent and I have no business harrasing his wife. It's 1pm not 1 am and I never answer and complaints he's voiced about his neighbors. He uses vulgarity and comes very close to me 2 times. I step away extending my arm, careful not to touch him telling him not to get too close to me. He's never voiced any complaints too me about anything.

He tells me he doesn't give a [blank] and who am i to tell him what to do.

I ask him and his wife if what their telling me is that they don't have to listen to management? He asks what am i going to do about it? I respond, evict you.

He says bring me the papers. I turn to leave and as i do his wife runs behind me and tells me to hurry and get out of there (this all occured in the parking lot).

I was never in fear for my safety as he is a small person, but i repeatedly asked him to lower his voice and not swear at me.

Can I file a verbal assault charge on him?
He has at least four 3 day notices to cure or quit on him for various violations of his lease agreement.
 
You can try but your local police may likely die laughing. You two may have been angry with each other but from your posting the guy never even made a verbal threat against you.

He already has a number of Cure or Quit notices under his belt. If your lease says something about noise, then provide them with another Cure or Quit notice, then follow up with actually beginning the eviction process.

Right now all the Cure or Quit notices mean nothing to him.

Gail
 
Hi Gail,

I'm just trying to get my ducks in a row before I evict him. Courts are tenant friendly in California. I'd do anything to ensure these tenants leave, within the limits of the law.

When someone gets in your face yelling in a threatening manner and its a tenant-landlord relationship, am I not more protected by the law than if the same thing happens in, say, a bar?
 
People yell all the time. Again, from your description, no actual threats were exchanged.

Now; if the husband had said "Get off my property or I'll break every bone in your body" or something to that effect, perhaps.

At any rate, again if your lease addresses the fact that excessive noise can be a reason for eviction, go with that and get rid of this family.

Gail
 
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