Legal Question in Real Estate Law in California

Harassment is not allowed, but asking for the rent to be paid in a normal fashion is not harassment. You would have to tell us what has occurred for any of us to know if it might be harassment.

Harass by the legal definition? No. That is never legal. Harass by the definition of a tenant who doesn't want to be bothered by a landlord trying to collect the rent? Yes.

I agree with both previous answers. Harassment is defined in the California Code of Civil Procedure at section 527.6(b)(3), which can be looked up on line via a search engine. A landlord's conduct in collecting unpaid rent certainly could rise to the level of illegal harassment, as defined in the Code, but I think the collection efforts wouyld have to be quite extreme to meet the legal definition.