Re: Harrasment from Landlady

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First send a certified letter stating your problems with the
lanlord. If things do not change, start escrowing the money
and give written notice of this as well. Alternatively, move
and be prepared that she may try to sue for breaking the
lease ... in the latter case, just make sure that your proofs
are good (and even if you decide to move, it does not hurt to
have documentation that you sent notification to the lanldord
of your problems

On 10/12/08, Virginia Smith wrote:
> I feel that my landlady is harassing both my boyfriend and
> myself. We have been here for only a short time though she
> arrives unannounced through out the week at any time of
> the day, asking why we are there or why we are away. In
> the lease it states that she is to give 24 hour notice
> though she has never done so. She even entered the house
> without asking the other day. The property we are renting
> has fruits and vegetables; she feels that while we are to
> maintain these crops she has the right to pick all of the
> crops. We are to pay for all of the maintenance of the
> yard and what it produces though she seems to feel this is
> her land so she owns all we grow. Just today she came and
> picked every fruit off of my persimmon tree even though
> they were not ripe, when asked why she wanted unripe ones
> she said because if she waited we would take them.
> We were unable to mow the lawn for a week or so for lack
> of gas, and she decides to show up to tell us this was not
> exemptible. This whole time she and her sister were taking
> the squash I had been caring for. She lives nowhere close
> to the property so she is here just to look in on us and
> then tells us about the days that she did not see us here
> at the property. She has stated that she gets checks on
> time, though she also drives by many times a week to look
> over the property with out telling us.
> I do not wish to seem rude though English is not her first
> language and dose not understands privacy or my right as a
> renter. What rights do I have and how dose one go about
> asking for them to be enforced. We like the place and the
> neighbors, though we would like our rights to be observed.