Is this landlord harassment??

[tball]

What is the name of your state? Florida

My former fiance was trying to evict me from a home we bought together two months earlier in her name. Before she vacated the home she did alot of crazy things to try and make it look like I was a negligent tenant. She left piles of bagged dog excriment on the sidewalk three feet from the garbage cans, she left the toilets clogged, took all the vacums and mops (we have two large dogs), had somone come in the home in the middle of the day and turn on all the exterior lights and fans, (I guess to make it look like I was running up the electricity), was taking my mail for about a week, and added locks to three back doors and wouldn't give me the keys. She also tried starting arguments with me outside the home on several occasions, one time throwing an eviction notice at me for which I have a witness.

I kept finding the things going on and sending it to her in e-mail/writing and she would just deny it, but I have alot of it documented.

I've already got her on illegal eviction as she took posession only 6 days after giving me written notice. I cleaned up the entire house and took pictures of the condition I left it in just prior to her taking posession. I also put a few grand in improvements into the home for which I have reciepts and pictures of some of the work I did and improvements I made to the house.

Would this qualify as harrasment or malicious activity by the landlord? Going out of her way to make it appear as if I was a negligent tenant?

I had a home based business of 13 years that has been shut down as a result as well, lost income for three months now.

What can I sue for/ask for back?

Should I file a complaint or just sue?

Florida laws say's the tenant must:

-Comply with all building, housing and health codes.

-Keep the dwelling clean and sanitary.

-Remove garbage from the dwelling in a clean and sanitary manner.

-Keep plumbing fixtures clean, sanitary and in repair.

-Not destroy, deface, damage, impair or remove any part of the premises or property belonging to the landlord, nor permit any person to do so.

-Conduct him/herself, and require other persons on the premises with his/her consent, to conduct themselves in a manner that does not unreasonably disturb the tenant's neighbors or constitute a breach of the peace.

-Use and operate in a reasonable manner all electrical, plumbing, sanitary, heating, ventilating, air-conditioning and other facilities and appliances, including elevators.

 

[OHlandlord]

tball, don't take this the wrong way, but this is the 6th post you've made on this subject now. (If I'm counting right.) You and your GF were buying a house, you made some improvements, you were planning the wedding, then it all went wrong somewhere. Who knows why. Things don't go logically when two people break up. They fight, argue, say and do things they shouldn't. She tried to hurt you. You can pursue this to try to hurt her back. It can continue this way back and forth for a long, long time. Do you really want this to continue, or do you just want to get on with your life?

I'm not saying that she was right in what she did at all. I just can't see continuing this cycle. If you go to court and they find you were a tenant and were put out (evicted) and she took possession unlawfully, you can get a couple months worth of rent out of it. You still won't get back any of the improvements you put into the place. (Once a tenant makes an improvement to the property (installs a fixture), it becomes the property of the owner.) What do you expect to get out of this besides hurting her? I truely feel from all of your posts that getting back at her is your main objective. And honestly, the best way to do that is to move on with your life, showing her that she can't hurt you anymore.

 

[Who's Liable?]

really... get over it... and quit wasting our time...

 

[tball]

tball, don't take this the wrong way, but this is the 6th post you've made on this subject now. (If I'm counting right.) You and your GF were buying a house, you made some improvements, you were planning the wedding, then it all went wrong somewhere. Who knows why. Things don't go logically when two people break up. They fight, argue, say and do things they shouldn't. She tried to hurt you. You can pursue this to try to hurt her back. It can continue this way back and forth for a long, long time. Do you really want this to continue, or do you just want to get on with your life?

I'm not saying that she was right in what she did at all. I just can't see continuing this cycle. If you go to court and they find you were a tenant and were put out (evicted) and she took possession unlawfully, you can get a couple months worth of rent out of it. You still won't get back any of the improvements you put into the place. (Once a tenant makes an improvement to the property (installs a fixture), it becomes the property of the owner.) What do you expect to get out of this besides hurting her? I truely feel from all of your posts that getting back at her is your main objective. And honestly, the best way to do that is to move on with your life, showing her that she can't hurt you anymore.

And you must be her lawyer**************..thanks anyway

 

[tball]

really... get over it... and quit wasting our time...

what joke this place is.....

 

[ecmst12]

You are also required to mitigate your damages; if you haven't managed to get your business up and running in three months, that's not *entirely* her fault. I don't know who you think you can file a complaint with, you don't live there anymore so you can't really complain to the housing authority. If you want to take her to court, take her to court already.

 

[Alaska landlord]

You need to decide if you're an owner or a tenant.

 

[OHlandlord]

According to one of his earlier posts, his name was never placed on the deed. That makes him the tenant and means he can recover nothing from the improvements or fixtures he put into the house. I'm not sure what he wants us to vindicate here. Or what he thinks he can gain out of a court case. It just seems like he is searching for some way to get even. He needs to quit wasting his time, energy, and resources on this and move on. Sorry tball, but you really don't have much to gain over this.

 

[tball]

According to one of his earlier posts, his name was never placed on the deed. That makes him the tenant and means he can recover nothing from the improvements or fixtures he put into the house. I'm not sure what he wants us to vindicate here. Or what he thinks he can gain out of a court case. It just seems like he is searching for some way to get even. He needs to quit wasting his time, energy, and resources on this and move on. Sorry tball, but you really don't have much to gain over this.

I'm not looking for you to vindicate anything. Nor am I wasting my time. Nor is it about getting even. There is a larger suit at hand here for which these landlord violations are a small part. I was asking for a yes or no as to whether what she did was harassment, not your outside assessment as to my motives or the chances of my overall case, as you do no have all the details.

I did not shop for, purchase and move into the home with her as a tenant. We were engaged and had a civil agreement as to the purchase of the home together which she broke.

The time I took away from work and the time and money I put into the home were as a homeowner as she led me to beleive at that time. She had no intention of marrying me and lead me into buying the home and moving into it with her, and making improvements as her fiance and part homeowner. This is breach of agreement and breach of fiduciary for which I am sueing to get back everything I put into the home. Not under landlord laws.

When she ended it, she then vacated the home and notified me that I was her tennant.

At which time landlord/tenant laws would apply.

She made unrelated false claims against me after I was out of the house, which I can prove are false and I am suing her for harrassment. Which is why I am trying to show a pattern or her malicious and vindictive behavior, and the only reason I asked if this was landlord harassment.

This is actually going into family court for which I can recover the time and money for improvements I made to the home as her fiance and in light of our original agreement.

I'm not upset about ending the relationship, she did me a favor. However the extent of her vindictiveness was malicious and uncalled for, it's caused my business serious damages and lead to other problems in my life as a direct result.

I was just trying to find out if a landlord trying to make a tenant look like they are not taking care of a property, and doing the things she did, was harassment.

She also did an illegal eviction, for which you are aware, and which cost me several thousand dollars, and you tell me to just move on.

There are several things she is being sued for outside of this issue and I was just trying to find out if this was harrassment.

Sorry this isn't a cookie cutter issue for which you can issue a simple answer and move on.

The irony here is that you think I'm doing this just to hurt her, which is in effect what she was doing to me. I'm really beginning to think you are her lawyer.....

I wish her the best, just want what is rightfully mine and the things she used me to get, under the false pretense that I was a homeowner and that we were getting married.

Fortunately for me this is a family law matter for which these things are considered. Again, I was just trying to see how this particular issue falls as harassment, nothing more.

 

[tball]

So the question, again, regardles of her motives, or ones opinion as to my motives, does this qualify as harassment, or not?

 

[tball]

According to one of his earlier posts, his name was never placed on the deed. That makes him the tenant and means he can recover nothing from the improvements or fixtures he put into the house. I'm not sure what he wants us to vindicate here. Or what he thinks he can gain out of a court case. It just seems like he is searching for some way to get even. He needs to quit wasting his time, energy, and resources on this and move on. Sorry tball, but you really don't have much to gain over this.

So then if I was her tenant, all the relationship things you mentioned before go out the window and her actions qualify as landlord harassment.

It's interesting you take it down the relationship path, when it benefits her************** then go down the tenant path, when it benefits her.

 

[tball]

You need to decide if you're an owner or a tenant.

That is a very good point and the best advice so far. It's not really my decision,and why this is a little more complicated than a straightforward landlord/tenant issue.

As to our agreement I was not a tenant when we bought the house and moved into it and put time and money into the house. I did so under the agreement that we woudl sign a QC deed. She would not own the house right now without breaching this agreement.

I became a tenant once she moved out and notified me I was her tenant.

What I'm seeing is I need to sue for breach of agreement and fiduciary as to terms of the purchase of the house and what I put into the home. And also sue her for illegal eviction once I was her tenant.

 

[tball]

You are also required to mitigate your damages; if you haven't managed to get your business up and running in three months, that's not *entirely* her fault. I don't know who you think you can file a complaint with, you don't live there anymore so you can't really complain to the housing authority. If you want to take her to court, take her to court already.

It's hard to mitigate my damages when I've had to use all my money just to find housing due to an illegal eviction. The reason I don't have the money to get my business up and running, is due to this situation.