Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in California

Remember that your landlord and his managers are not law enforcement. They can only enforce the rules of the apartment complex, and that is it. Illegal drug activity might be grounds for the manager to evict the tenants, but their obligation to do so is not absolute. You need to contact the police and report the activity. The better option, however, is to move away from the problem. Because it appears to be so wide spread, and the management appears to be doing nothing to deal with the problem, your best option is to leave and move to a better location. Calling the police, believe it or not, may still not fix the problem.

While I hate to agree with someone who appears to be a "lazy" manager unwilling to fix the problem, the practical and realistic answer is that your life will be much better if you simply move to a complex which does not suffer from these problems.

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