Legal Question in Civil Litigation in California
What legal recourse do neighbors have when an investor landlord rents a neighborhood house to tenants who constantly fight using loud and foul language and don’t maintain the appearance of the property. The police have been to the house once already and the tenants have only lived there for 2 months.
1 Answer from Attorneys
As long as the nuisance is caused by the tenants and not the property, your recourse is against the tenants for nuisance. To have legal recourse against the landlord you would have to establish that the landlord is responsible for the tenants conduct, or has the power and right to abate the nuisance and fails to do so. One of the unintended consequences of all the tenant protection laws is that they tie the landlord's hands when dealing with tenants who pay their rent on time.
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