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annegg

Member
What is the name of your state? California

Everyone and their brother in our neighborhood knows the occupants of a rental properety are dabbling in drugs. Some of our neighbors ae their best customers. The local PD refers to them as Tweakers and Methheads and constantly say they are watching these people, they are passing it through their vehicles, any day now....they will get them.

The property landlord however says the "neighborhood" complains about every little thing and his stellar tenants have "excellent jobs" and are the model tenants!...Which makes us wonder if this slumlord isn't also their druglord!?

Cops can't seem to catch these people and whenever someone complains about the smell ,the traffic, etc..they quiet down only to start up the business again plus customers trying to intimidate the neighbors.

So, we all know what they are doing ,and ,they know we are all trying to catch them and put them away.

How do we legally approach the landlord and would it be for negligence for willfully keeping a nuisance in the neighborhood?
We all already tried to buy him out but he won't sell. Even for 1/2 a mil! I think it is spite.

How do we legally approach the tenants for their multiple neighborhood sins. There are also minors involved, their own plus many neighborhood kids who instead of going home to do homework after school, go to this home to "hang out" and ...
 


badapple40

Senior Member
Send him a letter, return receipt requested, requesting that he abate the nuisance or you will proceed with a court injunction against him.

Ohh, and you had better have proof of their illicit drug usage. Air sampling, video, etc., or you could face a defamation suit over alleging they are drug users if they are not (or you can't prove they are).
 

annegg

Member
No Holes Proof

We have local and county "verbal" indication of criminal drug activity, we have the smell coming into our yard, and video that includes; minors discussing their own recent "bust" and how" great it is to be minor cause the fine is only 100 bucks!" The other guy says he had to "pay $300 (expletive, expletive)..." , visable smoking but of course its not an aromacam. The sounds of the drugs being prepared before smoking ,was audible. Any reasonable person using common sense would conclude the same.
We could get signed docs from many neighbors of other evidence witnessed etc...
Would that be enough for a lawyer to take this on?
Or would they tell us we need something with sharper teeth!?
 

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