Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in California

Noisy neighbor, retaliatory lanlord

I have a neighbor who plays his music upstairs 24/7 whether home or not, often at an unreasonable level. When we have tried to talk to him, he ignores us or responds with foul language. The landlord refuses to do anything about it without a police report, but he won't answer his door when the police come, so the police won't write a report. He then wrote a letter to the landlord saying we park illegally which was untrue which created new problems. In response to the complaints, the landlord raised our rent more than 20% with less than 30 days notice. We have tried to be nice about it but we are the victims in all this. What do we do? Can they really raise our rent this much?


Asked on 2/11/06, 7:02 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Robert F. Cohen Law Office of Robert F. Cohen

Re: Noisy neighbor, retaliatory lanlord

If you live in a rent stabilized area, report the rent to the rent control board. Since your landlord won't do anything about it, you will have to file a nuisance complaint against the neighbor, and a breach of your lease against the landlord, to include breach of the implied covenant of quiet enjoyment, and seek an injunction and retaliation. Get yourself a landlord-tenant lawyer in the Huntington Beach area.

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Answered on 2/11/06, 11:12 am


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