Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Maryland
harassment from employees
I attend a major research university in a relativly depressed area. Many of my friends and I reside in a local apartment building where the employees are generally resentful of students who attend the university. Often when we make maintence requests, or simply pick up packages which have been delivered, the staff makes nasty remarks about the school which we attend, directed at us...i.e. they think they're so smart just becuase the attend such and such a school, and other rather rude comments...I don't want to sue or anything, but is there anything I can say, like, hey, I am paying to live here and you are harassing me based on where I go to school. It is rather unpleasnt, and I would never make unkind remarks about where they are from, etc..
2 Answers from Attorneys
Re: harassment from employees
Your relationship between you and your landlord is strictly business. I recommend ignoring the comments. If the landlord starts to violate his responsibilities under the lease i.e fails to keep the dwelling inhabitable, then you will have something of substance to say to him within the parameters of your existing relationship. Otherwise, let sleeping dogs lie.
Based on what you have shared there is no cause of action here for harrassment. The comments are not extreme and outrageous. The employees may be obnoxious but that is about it.
Re: harassment from employees
I would have to hear more about the particular comments being made...but an
action in defamation may lie.
The lease could potentially be nullified on the basis of constructive eviction.
Other courses of action may apply.
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