Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in California
personal property
hi i locked my sons stroller to parking lot pole. parking in my apt complex is first come 1st serve. but there is plenty of parking everywhere. well i got back n noticed it gone/ manager had it he broke my lock n wrote me up 4 having personal property in parking lot. is that legal to break my chain n write me up?.there was enough room 4 a car to fit if that makes a diffrence. owned by property management co
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: personal property
It depends upon your lease, and the apartment complex rules and regulations. My guess is that it is a violation of the rules to store personal property in the common areas, such as parking. To know if what they did was proper, you are going to have to get an attorney to review the lease and/or rules and regulations. Whether that stroller interfered with parking or not might be an issue, but most likely not - the issue is did you violate the rules or breach your lease by leaving it locked up there.
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