Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in California

I am a California tenant and would like to know the extent of my responsibility for the old trees in the back yard. Both trees were infested with aphids within a month of moving in (it happened all over town because of our very wet spring) and I was told it was my resonsibility to have the trees sprayed and would be charged of they were damaged or died. Is this true? Are they not condsidered hardscape?


Asked on 9/07/10, 6:50 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys

David Gibbs The Gibbs Law Firm, APC

It depends upon what your lease says in terms of landscape maintenance. If the landlord is providing landscape maintenance services, then he is responsible. It is possible, however, that you agreed to perform all landscape maintenance, in which case the spraying may be your responsibility.

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Answered on 9/13/10, 9:21 am


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